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Ghost

Ghost

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    How did you discover PokéCommunity and what about it made you want to join?

    I joined for hacking experience.
     
    Looking for Pokemon Special manga scans, and I first saw this site. Then I went into the Game Development section, and then the Hacks Showcase section and joined to download attachments. The particular attachment? Pokemon Shiny Gold.

    But there I did not stay for long, instead I went to the RP section, and after that I just went around. Now I'm most active in B/W, and General.
     
    That's how I found a lot of the pokemon forums I'm on today, google is the best thing on the web.
     
    Google + uncontrollable urges for socialization. But that was years ago. Yet I still enjoy coming in here since it's grown on me as my internet home.
     
    I Googled for Pokemon sites, and I think this, along with Pokemon Elite 2000 and PTCO, were among the sites I found.

    I don't really remember why exactly I came here, other than the fact that I think my first post was about shinies, which I'm too lazy to confirm right now. Though, when I've been active, I've primarily based myself out of the TCG and Other Trivia style sections.
     
    My story occurred many, many years ago, before many of you were even born...maybe...in an age the Pokemon fandom currently refers to as "the second generation"

    I was just getting back into pokemon by way of the then-newest game in the series, Crystal, and a rekindled interest in the TCG. As you may expect, I desired to find a suitable website in which I could expand upon my knowledge of all things pokemon. I found myself at a site called Pokemon Trading Cards Online, or PTCO for short. I joined it sometime in the summer of 2001. It was a community based around the selling and trading of pokemon cards, but the community for the video games was fairly small, so I grew bored of the site and got myself banned intentionally sometime in the summer of 2002.

    I then scoured the Internet in search of another good Pokemon website, and I eventually came upon Pokemon Elite 2000, or PE2K for short. Impressed with the content the site had, I eventually decided to join the forums there (which, at the time, linked to a more primitive version of the PC we all know and love today) in Dec. 2002. With the warm welcome I received, I was guaranteed to stay behind even after PE2K split off again and left PC a barren wasteland. It was during this time that one newbie with the username of "Arcanine" joined, and through a little friendly competition between the two of us we quickly reached the top ten posters list and kept the forum alive (or at least, mandated the database reset that occurred almost immediately afterward).

    With my level of activity, I was modded almost immediately after the database reset in Sept. 2003, and as events played out, I was later S-modded in Dec. 2004. However, due to an unfortunate series of politically charged events that most staff members from that era try to forget, I, along with a handful of other staff members at the time, stepped down from the staff for our own reasons. Afterward, with college looming nearer, I slowly but surely started disappearing from PC beginning in the summer of 2005 and finally disappeared altogether in the fall of 2007.

    ...

    One day, approximately a year ago, I caught wind of a new Pokemon game that might rekindle my interest in the series after the huge disappointment of D/P...remakes of Gold and Silver being called, HeartGold and soulSilver. Wanting to hop into the fray and join the speculation machine, I figured there was no better place than my old Internet haunts...the Pokecommunity.

    As to why I made a new account instead of having my old account's name changed...I can't remember. Pick any of the following reasons and it'd be just as valid as anything:
    - I wanted to guise myself as a newbie so as to not intimidate other newbies.
    - I wanted to symbolize how I've grown and matured since I abandoned my old account
    - for the fun of trying to catch up to my old account in terms of postcount (already 2/3s of the way there BTW)

    ...and yeah, I plan to stick around for the long haul now. If I'm super-special-lucky, I might just have my second chance at being a staffer this time around. XD
     
    I joined PC back in 2004. I found it through Google really, I was merely looking for a place to hang out. I lurked for about a day or two and joined.

    In 2004, PC was a lot friendlier than it is now, and a lot more laid back. The rules and such now are the same, for the most part, but most of the staff members are far more strict and high strung than they were back then. Honestly, I can count on my fingers with one hand, the number of staff members I can approach with a problem and get a decent solution or answer pretty damn quick...which is somewhat sad...because I have to skip the COC to get things addressed properly because the COC is so mired in politics that it hinders growth. x3

    Yeah, the staff is stable, but also stagnant...I wish admins still had power to get hands on and solve a problem without being needlessly reversed or challenged. Personally, I think there needs to be a review of all staff and some jobs reassigned...we don't need as many senior admins as we have now.

    Anyways despite all my grumbling and grouching about the status quo, which I've no respect for the current instance of, I do feel that PC is still doing quite well. After all, I'd have left if I had felt this wasn't the case. Naturally I frequent OVP, and OT when I've the time to do so, but with college looming, I think I'll probably be inactive again. xD


    Amazingly, people still fail to notice how much I've matured over the years because they're too damn busy getting their panties in a twist over my audacity. I'm bold, get used to it. xD (All the cool, mature people do.)
    Of course, the current generation of staff doesn't realize it because they don't know me too well, they make their judgments based upon how I fight for what I feel is the "True Spirit of PC." Naturally, since the beginning of 2010, most of the problematic staff members have either departed or calmed down and matured greatly. Even Luke had replied civilly to me when I last pointed out to him that not every noob with a troll-ish name isn't Mobile Tsk. That in itself shows progress, which means that my hope that PC would be golden again, like it was when I first joined...was not wasted.

    While I have had my fair share of inactive spells, that doesn't mean that I'm not paying attention to the state of things when I do log in. I may not be extremely social, but I do get around PC quite more than one might think.

    Upon close examination of my posts over the last 3 years, you will never find low quality posts outside of OT. While I may be incorrect at times, I always pay close attention to detail when composing my posts. I put thought into them, and really express how I feel about a topic. I never did claim to be all-knowing or well educated in anything, but you can be sure that when I chime in on something, I'm fairly confident in my knowledge of a topic.



    With all that being said, I have never regretted joining PC. I never will regret it.
     
    I've answered threads like this SO MANY TIMES! D:

    Anyway, I found this place from another forum three years ago. I joined that forum to watch a thread for a hack called Pokémon White. I never understood forums at the time, so I could never post since I never verified my account. I was 13-years-old and stupid. XD Then, someone posted a link to the Hacks Showcase here. I always clicked on that link so look at the hacks here and also one in specific: Pokémon Shiny Gold. The most famous hack that brought so many people to this place, including me. So, as I lurked for a couple months, I made a couple accounts that probably still lurk in the Members List and could never EVER rememebr my password. I had to keep making new accounts just to download Shiny Gold. D: One day, I got so fond of this place, I decided to join here for good. :D I registered on October 3rd, 2007 with the name shinypkmnfan13 (which also happens to be my YouTube account). So, from that moment on, I've been an active member here for almost three years. Anniversary coming soon. ;D

    ^ story of my life........ o________o;
     
    First time, I joined because PC had a Webmaster's Forum and I spent the summer of 2002 joining pretty much any Pokémon forum I could find because, at 13, I had a lot of free time.

    Forgot about it and PC had issues and then restarted and upgraded to vBulletin. I discovered it again in December 2002 when a friend told me "you know that Pokémon forum I joined? I have a fanclub on it." I thought that was weird so I asked for a link and was greeted with PC. I recognized it as a forum I'd joined in the summer because of the slogan (see? it's good for something!) and decided to stick around. :P And then the friend who reintroduced me got modded, almost s-modded, and then quit and mega-spammed the forums with some friends. Good thing I was away that day or I might've been roped into it as well and I'd be banned and not around today.

    But yeah, I joined for the member fanclub forum and the webmaster's forum. How embarrassing. :(

    god i am so old
     
    I typed something Pokemon related (I forgot what it was ><) and Pokecommunity was the first response so I went there. (Originally for trading, Battling)
     
    Pfft Erica, you think your history is embarrasing?

    Well, back in 2007 I started downloading pokémon hacks. I stumbled upon CBM's Brown and Baro's Quartz, but was unable to finish them. So I downloaded Shiny Gold from a Spanish hack website. Then I joined said website's forums to report some bugs, but Zel told me that he had posted a more updated version in Pokecommunity.

    So I joined to download the latest version of Shiny Gold.
     
    lmao, I always forget that you actually joined for ShinyGold.

    Maybe my memory takes pity on you. /shot
     
    Kay posting only because Went and Erica did. Jsyk Erica, double post, but I might vm you that instead.

    So! Apparently I joined November 15th 2005. Why? Because of Pokemon Kareokemon. Or Pokemon Jukebox. Either of the two. Basically... I got an interest in downloading Pokemon music which I think was due to my boredom and interest in using the Internet to its full potential, which clearly is downloading Pokemon music. Anyway, Pokemon Music...uh, that site, well, SOME site couldn't provide all my music needs so I searched the Internet, probably through Google, and found my way to PC. So, from there, I proceeded to create like, four threads asking about Pokemon music. All of which, (I think all), Jake locked. Yes, Jake was the first staff member I saw. Surprisingly, I still remember how his username, avatar and signature looked at the time, yet not exactly the skin being used. Either way, idk what was up with me creating multiple threads. Um. In one of these, people began welcoming me to PC, so it counts as an intro thread. (Btw, most if not all were in the wrong section.)

    Not long later, I felt guilty about creating spammy threads, so I made a thread in the R/S/E forum at the time (iirc) and I mentioned that I was sorry for creating the spammy threads and asked a stupid question. I decided to stick around.

    ...

    And a month later I thought PC was amazing.

    Apparently that's how my PC life went. I also broke the four word rule, etc in 2006. Um, and...really, besides being involved in MCG dramaz (Con - GSC and that May fan/Latilover or whatever their names were), I can't remember much else (well, besides the Arcanine/Dragonair fanclubs) up until April Fools 06, which stood out pretty clear in my mind. Damn that was an awesome day. And that's been the skin I've been using since. So yeah. :3

    That's my PC life up until I started to get a proper memory of everything.
     
    Astinus (Fan Fiction mod) is to blame. I originally joined to have another place to post my fan fiction, but as I began to explore other sections of the site and I began to lose interest in fan fiction, I began posting in various areas and became completely absorbed into the community. And so here I am today :P

    It was around a year later that I developed my Buick obsession and changed my user name. My Quality Inn obsession dates back to before I even got into Pokemon, though, so that just carried over into my PC life.
     
    Brandon joined and I wanted to as well, but he wouldn't let me cause he knew I'd embarrass him (and I did) so finally, for some reason... I can't remember. It wasn't because he wanted me to join, he wanted me to do something. XD

    So, anyway, when he finally let me join, I BROKE LIKE FOUR RULES THAT DAY. I double posted like two times, and then broke the four-word-rule a bunch of times. And then a bunch of stuff that I don't remember. I spelled everything wrong on purpose for some reason. I knew how to spell but... I dunno, I was so weird. XD

    Some time after that... I think it had been about a year and then I quit. I started signing on randomly about once a day and exchanging PMs with Midori Chi, and then a couple months after that I started posting again. It was the beginning of 08. I was so active and addicted. I wish I could be like that again. It made my life so much more fun and organized. Now I just post randomly.

    In a couple weeks (I think, I don't feel like doing math) I'll have been here for five years. I joined on July 11th. :D
     
    It's been so long now I can't even...

    Well. I'm fairly sure I joined for the Hacking forum, because in fifth grade I was all "WOAHHH I CAN MAKE MY OWN GAME? COOL." I think I was intimidated by the sheer number of people, though, and lurked a lot and rarely posted. (See? Nothing's changed. |D) After that, I stuck around for the pixel art forum, since I had a very active sprite request thread and at that time there were tons of sprite comics that allowed people to join them.

    I vanished for a few years, then rejoined when... uhh, I think it was because of the game project I was working on. I advertised and had little luck, but the project ended up folding anyway so it wasn't that bad. |D Then I got working for Uranium and shortly after that got hooked on game dev. That was a year and a half ago. Here I am now. :3
     
    Three words to say why I joined: Pokémon Shiny Gold. Not even kidding =3 And to think that joining for a hack would turn me to competitive battling...
     
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