Thanks montalk....

So what is the official anniversary date of NR? I was thinkin' it was March 3rd....

Well, you can count on me to be here every day, ready to read and/or write, and always, always ready to learn.

Tom, heehehee, I was bit sake-fied last night after having made like 13 different sushi rolls and stuffing my face so I didn't write then what I'll write now, that whole "self-regulating" gig you know... but by no stretch of my wild imagination it is still true today--

I love you, and you are precious.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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If you spin around on your chair really fast, things around here will make a lot more sense.

Yes....I know what you mean!   That's mostly due to who was posting on those sites.   You'll notice that most messageboards get overrun by crazies posting a lot of noise, causing a chaotic vibe and turning off the valuable posters from contributing....or even bringing down the forum completely.    Montalk's done a kick ass job of keeping out the noise and crazies and low FRV people who want to wreak havoc.    Seriously, when you look around at all the regular posters here at NR they pretty much all feel "real".   No low FRV crazies.

On a sidenote, thought I'd mention this since it illustrates this point exactly:  but the the Goro Adachi (Etemenanki) forum has been removed, yet again, as well as the reader comments section on his web blog.   He's been periodically removing it over the past year.  My only guess is because it's just gone majorly down hill.  LOT of noise going on over there, lot of negative posters fighting and throwing out nasty barbs at each other, LOT of religious fighting...oh my lord!   The Wiccans versus the Christians, that runs RAMPANT over there.  Lot of people posting stupid stuff.   Pages of threads that are just some silly news article that doesn't relate AT all to ANYTHING that's talked about over at Etemenanki, then you've got people with their own personal agenda using his forum to advertise their agenda, (promoting Wicca, defending Christianity, etc.).   It was just totally overrun by the "noise".   You could tell though that Goro wasn't invested in his forum;  he doesn't babysit it, rarely posts, doesn't really care what goes on, lets the weeds get overgrown, figuritively speaking.   He lets it get to a crisis point then just removes the entire thing, instead of taking care of it along the way.

Then you have Noble Realms in comparison.............!   This is a very cool place, with lots of quality people posting.   Thanks to everyone who contributes!