What was PokeCommunity like in the first year of launch?

[Cherrim]

Erica was far and away the best admin PC has ever had.

agreed, my favourite was how she always used to change her name formatting to pink on a whim

 

[Trainer 766]

Who's Erica again?

 

[Nick]

I got an informal warning for being super-annoying and saying all sorts of shit back when I joined 2002 — so I joined halfway into PC's first year. I somehow got into the staff October! In the end, it turned out that I'm the last member of staff (besides Rukario) who was around within PC's first 12 months. Yay?

PC had no formal systems of doing stuff at the start — we didn't have a formal warnings system, and people could be banned at the drop of a hat. And also we had tons of dumb rules. I've pitched in the implementation of these, and an attempt at being fairer. Yay.

 

I've been feeling quite left out lately, and yes I am Shigeru-san. When I started with my first account, eusine606, on November 29th, 2002, I didn't know what I was to do next, so I looked around I found someone needing some patching help. So it turned out my personality shown when the first post I ever made was a post that I used to help someone.

Some posts can be seen here: https://www.pokecommunity.com/archive/index.php/t-927

I've went through a lot of things those times, including a bit of chaos relating to a flamewar when it came to things like Kanto and Johto discussions. It even got me into a few problems with theRealOne, which I sorted out.

That was during December.

In December, after looking around at all different chain stories, I got attracted to making my own. Then I met Shadow, and he became a friend of mine from time to time. The interest in chain stories made us... friends. Even now he's a good friend of mine. It's been nearly 10 months since I started being on the community.

During the early months of this year, I registered an account under the name of Masato-san.

But during those times it seemed Pok�mon Community wasn't the same. I thought about when PE2K had no longer been a Pok�mon Community site. Was that the case?

There wasn't anything I felt wrong with PC at those times, but during the times, other than a few members, I felt ignored.

When it was the time recently, when Pok�mon Community had a new database, I registered after Kairi. Kairi, or Haruka-chan as I knew a while back, was a person who I liked as she had known so much about Pok�mon. Although I haven't admitted it. I thought that I could be able to go along with Pok�mon Community. But I was wrong for the while. I still thought that the only one who actually knew and made even a response that I knew she'd make, was Kairi. Although I was to think that I'd be better with a new account, which you may know as Shigeru-san, it probably didn't work.

And now I post here, in a new account that reflects my possibly favorite English name. Because I never originally created a thread for introduction to the new database, or even an introduction when I first started browsing Pok�mon Community, I thought I should now.

 

[SirBoglor]

It's really cool to hear these stories about the early days! I wish that I would have joined earlier, but at the same time I probably would have been a very annoying delinquent picking fights on random threads, so at least you guys didn't have to deal with that.

 

[Aeroblast]

Interesting stories from first-year users. Obviously not everything can be smooth sailing from the first year but still nice to see things have worked out well since.

It feels like a lot has changed even in the past year or two of my inactivity in PC.

 

[pastelspectre]

huh..this is interesting jeez. i joined in 2010 and was active for a few months and then i jumped off the grid and headed to other forums, then returned for awhile and left many times and finally i became fully active again in the summer of 2016 i think? so i can't remember too much from 2010..but it was very intimidating and not very welcoming..at least from what i can remember. maybe it's bc i was 12 then and immature blep

also to note: my username was shadow_angel for like 6 years lmao, then hoshiko and now sumire.

 

[Kura]

When I joined, PC had -fairly- recently moved over from some other bulletin to where it is now (I don't remember the technicalities but it was a really small at first.. it was hosted somewhere else and it apparently got wiped..)

Anyway, when I joined, back in 2004, the rules were REALLY strict. Really in-depth discussions were kind the focus. I mainly stuck around the DCC (Daily chit-chat) forum in OC (Other chat.) And there weren't so many sub-sections of "Other chat."
We didn't have visitor messages. Our PM boxes were TEENY, we didn't have post comments and I think we didn't even have multi-quoting! There were no blogs. There was only an IRC and an oekaki.. hmm.. there have been a lot of improvements, but back then had more of a feeling of.. closeness and family I guess.
The daily chitchat was HELLA popular. You'd post something and between the time it took for you to write something and hit submit(mind you, internet was slower those days..) there would be a whole new page for you to read back on and reply to.
I remember being part of a group called the DCC Gangbangers (lol..) we were just a group of regulars that posted a lot in the section. There was no VIP section either. Staff was REALLY cliquey.. we had some hackers that posted porn over the whole site a couple of times..

Hmm.. I made a LOT of friends from on here actually, and still keep in touch with quite a lot of them. (Mr. CatDog, Jorge (Ryoutarou), Drummershuff, and more)
I even met Pokejungle for the first time when I visited Japan in May this year! It's been awesome to get to meet people from a website like this. My current boyfriend and I met on here when we were like.. 15! I'm 27 now and we've been together for over 5 years.

Uh.. what else?! I dunno.. trying to condense over 10 years of history in like a couple paragraphs is kinda hard. Ask me something and I'll be happy to elaborate.