What were your original intentions for joining?

Started by Alternative May 2nd, 2011 6:33 PM
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Alternative

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Age 30
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Adelaide, Australia
Seen July 4th, 2020
Posted December 21st, 2019
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14.3 Years
It's a simple question really. What were your original intentions for joining PC? Was it the hacks, or the general discussion? Just yeah. :P

For me, it was probably the trading scene. At first, I wanted to get into trading because I was bored of Pokemon Pearl, and the wifi seemed interesting, so I joined, solely for that purpose. Ever since I've learnt lots more about Pokemon, so it's a win-win for me. :D
Age 29
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PA, USA :effort
Seen December 8th, 2013
Posted December 5th, 2013
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15.9 Years
Hacks. Shiny Gold of course.

Then my 2nd focus shifted quickly to [sucking at] competitive battling.

Then my 3rd and most long-lived initial reason was escapism from another site I stopped having fun at and Other Trivia.

Now I am Mr. Jaded, No Fun Allowed.
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The Great Northern Nation of Canada
Seen January 12th, 2023
Posted February 23rd, 2020
3,171 posts
15.8 Years
See, there was this really cool game called Shiny Gold and I thought you had to join to get it. I beat it and came back approx. a year later. That's when I realized there's a part of a forum that allows me to post whatever popped into my 11 year old mind.
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Them hacks. I was linked to Pokecommunity when I clicked on a banner on some other forum. It led me to the thread for Pokemon Ice, a hack by Jeremy (no, I heard of Ice before I even heard of Shiny Gold. Shiny Gold only came later). I found it really interesting, and I wanted to learn how to ROM hack because of it. That led to me joining PC. And I was a Pokemon crazy four year old, plus the forum looked really nice. :3

Margot

some things are that simple

they/he
Seen April 16th, 2022
Posted February 25th, 2019
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17.3 Years
FAN FICTION <3

I wanted to read more stories but the section wasn't very active when I joined, and i'm honestly not sure how it is now, but there wasn't too much going on at first. So, I had to go off and lurk to other sections and I lived in member fanclubs from 06-08 hahaha. but now that's gone :( so I lurk around other chat now.

Shining Raichu

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Age 32
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Australia
Seen October 17th, 2020
Posted December 21st, 2017
8,958 posts
12.3 Years
I'm actually really annoyed that I didn't find this place until February this year. I'm now desperately trying to catch up because I want it to seem like I've been here the whole time, which considering my love of Pokemon and the Internet I should have been :P

I found it when I was Googling potential Ruby/Sapphire remakes, and I found the PGC thread about it. So I joined the forum to post in that thread, and then I found myself posting in some other threads around PGC, and then I stretched to Other Chat and OVP, where I spend most of my time. Now I love this place and can't imagine leaving

Edsbob

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Seen May 4th, 2013
Posted March 11th, 2013
92 posts
12.1 Years
It was basically a "HOLY MOLY IT'S AN EARNEST CONGLOMERATE OF THOSE WHO LIKE POKEMON". I had to at least try it out!

I suppose the main appeal to me was just talking about the games and to see how others played Pokemon.
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Hikamaru

Age 30
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Australia
Seen January 24th, 2019
Posted September 4th, 2018
50,214 posts
12.2 Years
I joined PC after I got booted out of Bulbagarden. I'm not the only user on PC who came here after being dumped from Bulbagarden. PlatinumDude was also a victim, now he's friends with me on Facebook and we follow each other on Twitter.
Gone forever for personal reasons.
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solarowl

I'll always be an Outsider.

Age 27
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Hoenn
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Posted October 7th, 2011
910 posts
12.8 Years
I joined because I was tired of lurking. DX
And to try and make some new Pokemon friends. XD
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Razer302

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Age 32
England
Seen November 22nd, 2022
Posted December 13th, 2018
3,368 posts
17.1 Years
I was bored one day and just ended up finding this place. Signed up and now its 5 years latter lol. I took a brief 6month to 1 year break but I can't seem to stay away from this place I enjoy the discussions and am just getting into RNGing pokemon so the trading section is where I am off to next :)

Misheard Whisper

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Age 28
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Seen October 3rd, 2022
Posted September 27th, 2022
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14.4 Years
seems I'm not the only one who came here after getting booted off BMGf after all
Well, I first joined BMGf in December 08 (for the fanfiction). I thought it was cool, so across January 09 I joined a whole bunch of other forums, most of which I can't remember. Never posted much, though.

Then a while later I got banned from BMGf. Don't recall the exact date - the screenshot in my album here was uploaded July 11, 2009, but I have a feeling it was a little earlier than that . . .

Yet I'd had my taste of the online fandom, and it was not to be sated that easily. I cast around for another big forum to join. I poked my nose into Serebii, but quickly ran away because it was big and scary and impersonal and the design looked like Joe puked on it. (Only went back there in the last few weeks, actually)

So I came here. It was nice. People were cool . . . and then I dived into the fanfiction section, never to reappear.

. . . until about October last year, which I think was my big blitz of 'hey, there are other forums after all'. Then I fell out of it until last month, when I came back again.

Hang on, this is turning into a 'History of the internet as seen by MW'. My original intent in joining was to find other people who were into this thing I'd recently discovered called 'fanfiction'. And now I'm one of those people.

. . . one of the few left, actually. :x
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Elite Overlord LeSabre™

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15.5 Years
Posting fan fiction. Something that I don't do very much of nowadays. I've since grown tired of fan fiction and the drama associated with it, and I've discovered other areas of the site that strike my fancy.

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ShinyGold... but I got bored of it after a couple of hours and hit up PC to see if there were any more interesting hacks and somehow found my way to the fan fiction section and that was the start of a long adventure.
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Sydian

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Age 30
they/them
Georgia
Seen May 22nd, 2022
Posted November 29th, 2021
33,354 posts
15.2 Years
Fan fiction, believe it or not. That's where I got my start here. I came here to read more stories, and get better feedback on my own. I also came here for manga scans. That was back when the manga subforum was very active. And I had the Pokemon Special/Adventures fanclub in Pokemon Clubs, but it got locked away a few months ago</3 Little piece of my history just gone. ;o; Horrible. But yeah. Fan fics. Manga. I rarely stroll down FF these days and never look at manga. Sad.
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Seen September 28th, 2018
Posted March 16th, 2018
8,874 posts
12.1 Years
I got bored and decided to come to meet some new people, haha. I had literally no intention of regularing the Pokémon sections other than Emulation and came straight to OVP.
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alisaie

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Seen March 14th, 2023
Posted February 3rd, 2022
13,598 posts
14.8 Years
I originally joined this site because I wanted a place to speak about Pokemon Special (so, the Manga section). However, I ended up posting more in Metal Generation, before finding out about the PokeSupe fanclub. I stayed there for a bit, before leaving PC for seven-nine months. When I came back, I went to Other Trivia and never looked back. :]

donavannj

Age 32
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18.2 Years
I joined to talk about Pokemon, I guess. Looking at a search result for my first posts shows I was kinda all over the place:

http://www.pokecommunity.com/search.php?searchid=4573651
whoops

Mr Cat Dog

Frasier says it best

Age 32
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London, UK
Seen September 29th, 2017
Posted July 12th, 2017
11,344 posts
19.1 Years
When I joined all those years ago, it was with one intention and one intention only: to become a moderator. As mercenary as it sounds, I was a 13-year-old with a severe Napoleon complex and hadn't achieved my dream of moderator status at any of the other Pokemon forums I'd frequented (shocker, I know!) so thought a chance of scenery would do me good: hence PC! Although I did eventually become one, it was the people that made me fall in love with this place.... until I left.

As for returning, I'd just bought Black version and it was literally just to say 'Hi' to a few friends from way back when, but then Went VM'd me out of the blue, and then other people started conversing and before you knew it, it was just like old times!

Overlord Drakow

Banned

Down Under
Seen November 6th, 2019
Posted November 5th, 2019
3,654 posts
15.6 Years
Upon first appearing on PC years ago, I sought opponents to battle over wifi. I became pretty good at battling but eventually lost interest and so I disappeared from the forums for several years. Upon the release of B/W, my interest in battling has returned and so I am here again. I currently hang around the off topic sections but perhaps soon, I will return to the wifi sections once I have sorted my team out.

Timbjerr

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Age 36
Female
Texas
Seen May 30th, 2022
Posted January 28th, 2016
7,415 posts
19.7 Years
My original join date was a year before R/S came out, so you can cross out the wi-fi trading, and five years before Shiny Gold was released, so you can cross that out as well...in fact I've never even entered the wifi/emulation sections outside of lurking like once in a few months. XD

I can't recall exactly why I joined, but I remember spending the majority of my newbie days in the Pokemon RPs before moving on to general discussions such as OC and OVP. XD