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Originally Posted by tiltedbc
250 posts for an avatar? This reminds me of collecting bubble gum wrappers to send away for a spud gun. Ahhh... my sisters tortured youth.
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Don't let it torture you, tiltedbc. I was really anticipating hitting the 250 mark. As I got closer I started picking out my avatar and, even more, looking forward to the great conversation in the new forums.
This will be post 276, and I would consider myself a pretty good member of the community. Yet I have no avatar and no extra access. It was all very disheartening for a while. All that buildup and then... Nothing. I'm getting over it, but it still sometimes bothers me. Last night I actually had a dream that I had access to the new forums (does that mean I'm here too much if I actually
dream about the place?).
Anyway, if there were never any avatars or member forums, I would still post. (Obviously, since I'm still posting.) I would recommend to all the newbies that you simply embrace the community. If you're just looking to get an avatar, you're not going to get much out of the TFP. But if you really sit down and take the time to read what some of your fellow members have to say, it will hook you like it did me.
Every day after I check the boards, I feel like I'm smarter than I was before. Not just smarter, I feel like I'm a better person. The anonymity provided by this format creates an incredible degree of honesty. It's conversation like you can have almost nowhere else. Embrace it.