Because that's totally the way it happens

Started by Ho-Oh August 20th, 2010 5:30 AM
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Ho-Oh

used Sacred Fire!

Age 31
Female
QLD, Australia
Seen June 5th, 2022
Posted April 23rd, 2022
35,988 posts
17.5 Years
In your earlier years, or earlier days of being a PC member, did you ever think certain things which you know now aren't true? Mislead, perhaps? For example, in my head... I used to think it went mod > assist admin > smod and so on. Plus I used to think all mods were green (yes even when it was changed to steel blue) and I still somewhat do... but yeah, this isn't exactly based on the PC politics, but anything in general. Like when you get 10000 posts someone throws you a party, or something.

I guess you sort of view PC differently when you first joined and you were more likely to form opinions of the community based on actions of other users. Even if you're a newer member, have you learnt a lot about PC already and are pretty confident with your knowledge? For the older members, how much did you actually know about PC and did you ever make incorrect assumptions, then years later make a fool of yourself? Do you think that if you knew then, what you knew now, would you perhaps have known too much for your own good?

The way I see it, knowing a lot more about PC in my newer days would have been handy but not necessary. I was gunna do this ages ago but forgot. :(

Signomi

Age 32
Female
Britland (United Kingdom)
Seen 1 Week Ago
Posted October 10th, 2022
7,480 posts
17.8 Years
I used to think Andy was the admin of the entire forum and Erica happened to be his lover, who also owned the entire forum.

...

I was new and they were both on at the same time, give me a break!

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Sammi

Age 33
she/her
The States
Seen 5 Days Ago
Posted November 8th, 2021
14,085 posts
18.3 Years
When I was a younger member, I thought that if I even talked to mods, that it would be considered sucking up, and they'd never mod me. I was a bit desperate back then. XD;

Also, for the longest time after I joined, I really did think Andy was a girl. o__O Something to do with a dare he had back then? Boy was I embarrassed after I learned the truth.

Having been here for so long, these days, I don't usually make incorrect assumptions about anything anymore. However if I don't know the full story on something, that's when it usually turns out to be wrong. I'm bad at assumptions.

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Eternal Nightmare

Stunningly Handsome

Age 31
Male
Seen August 21st, 2015
Posted June 28th, 2011
2,150 posts
16.8 Years
^^ and ^ I actually thought they both Rukario and Mewthree were a tag team duo that found PC together...untill I read the FAQs D:.

Other than that I don't think I have been mislead by anything else here :I.
Seigo Takahashi

Stellar

Minior used Cosmic Power!

Age 31
Female
outer space.
Seen December 7th, 2022
Posted November 27th, 2022
870 posts
14.1 Years
For whatever reason I remember being afraid of starting my own threads. I think I was under the impression that if I did something wrong I'd be whacked by PC's secret mafia or something. But that was probably just me being socially inept.

Oh, and I used to be (and still am to an extent) afraid of posting in threads like TCTI, DLTMSA, etc. because everyone knows each other so well that it's kind of unnerving. :c

Klippy

L E G E N D of

Age 31
Male
Disneyland
Seen December 4th, 2022
Posted February 19th, 2022
16,371 posts
17.4 Years
I used to think that Signomi was one of the admins (my first half a year), since I never explored outside the Pixel Art area and she used to mod it, so she was the only staff member I ever saw, haha.
Seen January 1st, 2023
Posted April 20th, 2020
4,423 posts
15.4 Years
I had the acceptable idea that Rukario/Mewthree/bgt were the founders of PC. Didn't find out about Kwesi until eight months after I joined or something.
'It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.'

Melody

Banned

Female
Cuddling those close to me
Seen March 4th, 2018
Posted March 2nd, 2018
6,459 posts
18.6 Years
...I could go on and on about the ways I was either misled or the ways I misunderstood PC's quixotic political climate.

Like back in 2004, several staff members stepped down, and I thought the sky was falling in on PC. XDD
(I was quite a n00b back then x3)

Even now, I occasionally misread things or jump to a conclusion, but eh. I'm human.

Hiidoran

ohey

Age 32
Male
Indiana
Seen 1 Week Ago
Posted February 4th, 2022
6,203 posts
17.6 Years
Back when I first joined PC, I wasn't even aware that people frequently used the boards outside of ROM Hacking. I thought the whole community was built around that one concept, and the other boards were just kinda... there. You know, in case you got bored.

Based on that, I figured every member of staff could moderate those boards, and knew everything about them. An assumption, I've learned after tending to NU/W, a lot of our newer members make. ^^;

Oh, and I also thought Signomi was part of the higher staff for a long while.

BakingBluePotatoe

The Red Death Alchemist

Age 28
Female
Catatonia
Seen March 28th, 2016
Posted February 12th, 2016
2,279 posts
15.8 Years
I always thought it was Rukario that made PC... I didn't know about Kwesi until... litterally, 2 minutes ago. o.O

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