Hain

So I cheat on TFP. I visit other forums. What other forums do you visit?

• Hydrogenaudio Forums is more of a tech junkie site for audio enthusiast. It is where I learn everything I know about audio software, codecs, and more. Great place, friendly and hard working mods, and kept very clean in terms of threads. It's actually a nerdier, audio-fixated version of TFP...
  
• VideoHelp is another site but kind of a nightmare for new users. The guides and threads are numerous... I find it challenging. It isn't like HA or TFP. Still I go to it because the people are helpful and the tool sections/comments are updated frequently with appended guides and what-naught. I am getting big into video encoding so this is a good place to start.

So where do you go, TFP'ers? What's it about and what brings you there.

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lotsofmagnets

i tend to be forum-monogamous but i sometimes pop in to volvospjall.tk to deal with my volvo fix while i´m in iceland

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physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?

jewels

No cheating. The others are just friends.

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Hain

Come on... you never pop in for a quicky post here or there? I bet you've done it even while TFP was in the other window...

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jewels

NO, I swear.

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snowy

I don't post on any other forums, really, but I'm an active member of several LiveJournal communities, all oriented towards various interests of mine--Naruto (fanfiction and icon communities), gaming (Girl Gamers unite!), and Venture Bros. I peek at the NarutoFan forum once in a while, mostly if the week's chapter was a cliffhanger, to see what the various theories out there are, but generally the level of discussion is a 1 whereas TFP is a 10. I just need to get more TFPers reading the Naruto manga on a weekly basis.

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lotsofmagnets

would browsing be the equivalent to being friends? posting the equivalent of kissing and private messages the equivalent of sex? and yeah, would having tfp open in another window be like having your normal partner downstairs and the person you´re cheating with in bed?

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mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor.
she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron.
physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?

snowy

If it's just in another tab, is that worse?

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Redlemon

I'm in an open relationship with TFP. So, when I need a little variety, or I have a consumer-based question, I'm over at TiVoCommunity. I'm more of a lurker there, however.

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Hain

Well it isn't a threesome... because they don't know the other was in the same browser window.

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lotsofmagnets

that would be like having them at the foot of the bed then

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mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor.
she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron.
physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?

Jinn

Nope. I created an account at the XKCD forums, but they were boring as hell compared to TFP.

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Bacchanal

I'm a member, but hardly ever post anymore (nobody does, really) at an unofficial Stone Sour Board, but in all fairness, I joined that one first. Manic_Skafe was a friend of mine over there and told me about a much bigger, better message board called tpf or tfp or something like that. After about 2 months of listening to him talk about how awesome this place was I figured I'd join, and here I am.

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Jetée

This was the first forum I ever joined when I was learning about the internet for the second time. I've joined other various ones whenever the opportunity arose, but I never found myself sharing intimate details or connecting with other members as profoundly as I do here. I did create a new identity just recently for a friend of the TFP's forum, but I lost it just as quickly due to a forgotten password. I'll try back in a week, but that leaves only TFP in the wake as far as forum participation goes. Now, as my online presence dwindles more as the days go by, I seem to focus most of my efforts and available time here, while also abandoning and shaking off the mulitple personalities I have created along the way.

I guess I just want something true.

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telekinetic

I always go to three forums: This one, a local car club forum I'm a moderator on, and a forum dedicated to whatever happens to be interesting me at the time. So I guess that would make my car club my wife forum, TFP the mistress, and whatever grabs my interest day-to-day as the flings. (current fling: edcforums.com )

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filtherton

I was a member of the RichardDawkins.net forum for a while. It was dumb.

dksuddeth

http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/ - open carry advocacy board
http://glocktalk.com/forums - glock handgun discussions
http://thehighroad.org - gun rights forum
http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/ - USSC blog

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PonyPotato

I check out a couple of horse-related forums. Usually just to stop in and read, I very rarely post unless someone's looking for advice and either no one has replied yet or the advice they're getting is very inadequate.

Although, like onesnowyowl, I am also a member of a few livejournal communities. Primarily horse-related.

I come to TFP for good writing, good discussion, and zomg punctuation and capitalization. If I read the other forums I visit more than once every couple of days, I think my IQ would begin to drop at an alarming rate.

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ShaniFaye

unbelievable as it may seem to some, TFP doesnt satisfy all my appetites, so yes, I stray, each and every single day, in multiples

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xepherys

Canon POTN Forum... it's where I get my photography fix!

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MexicanOnABike

maxforums.org for my 3d needs.
modified.in for my footbag related info.
cgtalk.com for more 3d news.
conceptart.og for more art needs.

But I rarely post on these other forums.

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BadNick

I've pretty much brainwashed myself about cars and even obsess about them, so I have to visit a couple of my regular car forums each day, plus I can't imagine not spending a good chunk of time here every day. From those I usually get distracted to another forum or two each day just following interesting links or news.

Shauk

www.nwtekno.org for my local scene fix (though i don't post much because it's mostly immature discussion that I don't care to participate in)

and my old wow guild forums cuz I made a lot of friends thur.

abaya

kvetch.indiebride.com

What can I say... I joined it for support during the crazy wedding prep time (5 week engagement), and I go back there about once a week just to see what kind of topics are rolling around. Most of the time, though, I get pissed off at the uber-feminist mindset that predominates over there.

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SecretMethod70

abaya: wow, awesome site *bookmarks for future use* EDIT: though I see what you mean about an uber-feminist mindset sometimes...sheesh!

The only other site I really participate at is thismight.be/offensive

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mixedmedia

There is only one other forum I have played footsie with...actually, I left that one to come here, lol, and I have gone back there to play twice but it's obvious I no longer have the stomach for it. It's a politics forum. I've been tempted to tell UsTwo about it, because over there he would be like a conservato-god. A veritable King Kong of conservativeland with the slack-jaws groveling at his feet offering up virgins and grapes and the very best American-made lagers. But then, I remember how much he loves us and I continue to keep it secret.

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What is this might be offensive?

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abaya

Glad to hear that you like it. I mean, I'm all for a healthy perspective of feminism, but when women get in-your-face snarky on each other's asses over something very petty (to me) in the grand scheme of things... yeah, it drives me nuts. I just wish there was a balance between the majority-male environment of TFP and the bitchfest going on at kvetch.indiebride.com... now, that would be my perfect forum.

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Halx

Just send them on over here.

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Charlatan

the only place i cheat on tfp with is my meat space life...

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StanT

I'm a forum slut.

Motorcycle forums
Joke forums
Car forums
Photography forums

little_tippler

I would but I haven't found anywhere I like better, at all - mainly it would be nice to find somewhere local for me, but most forums here suck. I also don't like forums that have only one topic - I don't live my life that way and TFP is like a mini internet world, which I love. I doubt there is anything like TFP here, and...I've grown accustomed to this place...

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To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
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By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
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And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

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Derwood

i have nearly 27,000 posts at www.northsidebaseball.com

RetroGunslinger

I sometimes pop back into Richarddawkins.net, Reel Horror, Fangoria and a few other horror ones, but they're mainly just for finding news for my blog (see in sig, thank you). This forum holds my attention much better.

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dc_dux

The first time I posted on a forum, Halx and the TFP crew were probably still in Jr. High School.

For those familiar with the Utne Reader, it was the Utne Cafe and it was before web forums. It was on CompuServe.

I stayed with them when they moved to the web and even when Utne turned them loose and they became the New Cafe in 2005.

I still check in to see whats up, but havent posted since I joined TFP. I never did like the BBS still application they use (motet).

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ngdawg

If I'm not mistaken, I sent Ustwo and a few others over there when I was in the thick of it-no one could hack it. I finally had enough as well and haven't been back in a year.

My new place is http://forums.popphoto.com/ I've become a post whore there.

noodle

north florida sportbike association.

it's where all my local friends hang out.

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highthief

Spend a certain amount of time on the BBC's 606 forum, telling people who think they know something about football (soccer) that they don't have a clue.

Tis fun ...

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Martian

No I'm not cheating on you, and frankly I'm getting a little tired of all the accusations!

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canuckguy

I frequent one other internet bar. It is devoted to my favourite band and includes all the standard message board content, complete with idiots, flamers and general unmoderated fun/irritation.

I much prefer it here and only visit there for the last news and gossip about said band.

SecretMethod70

Primarily, it is a relatively small community of people who upload photos - either found somewhere or photos of their own - and other people vote [this is good] or [this is bad]. Generally, it's not really that offensive at all, but sometimes something pops up that fits the [this might be offensive] label. Aside for the photos, there is a discussion area as well.

There are actually quite a few past and present TFP members over at TMBO.

It's invite only though, so you'll have to ask me nicely if you want to check it out

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