What bought you to a2k?

I first came stumbled on a thread called Atheist Discussion in Nov 2004, and never left. I've learned a hell of a lot since. I can talk about things here (especially religion) that people in RL are largely unable or unwilling to discuss with me in a satisfactory way.

I am grateful I had Abuzz to practice on before a2k. I was more than a little rough around the edges. By the time I got here, I was slowly beginning to wise up. Now, I am essentially pretty happy with my forum experience here.

I was awfully difident about posting anything when I first joined Abuzz. Because it was a NYTimes site, I thought everybody there must be much smarter, more erudite than I. I learned quickly enough, though, that the number of idiots and the number of intelligent people is fairly consistent regardless of who sponsors the site.

My first post followed one by edgarblythe

Ha!

Exactly the same with me, Andrew!

I thought I was mingling with the intellectual elite during my initial (very nervous) Abuzz posts.

But it didn't take too long .....

All men, Unite: http://able2know.org/topic/182113-1
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http://able2know.org/topic/182347-1

I was going through some relationship issues at the time and wanted some advise, I think that I put something into google and got here. I was on the relationship forum on old A2K for months before I even looked at other places in A2K, but I eventually took an interest in other topics. I stayed because I liked the straight shooting, the general temperament here to tell the truth rather than what someone wants to hear, which I have found hard to come by on internet forums.

Yep -I blame da bunny as well!

I was ambling around on Abuzz - and ricocheting about Ravens Realm (loved the Sunday morning chats!), but somehow ended up here - summoned by her bunnyship and jespah!.

There's some good people here (and some pretty cool animals!)

I was looking online for a comedian and it brought me to a2k as first google entry and there I read a post from gustavratzenhofer I started reading more and more in various threads and after about 5 weeks of reading I registered - that was in October 2004. I had chosen an avatar of an old lady in rollers and when gustav crossed my path again, he said to me: "If you look like this in person, I'll do you"..... I miss that old fart!!

the collapse of Abuzz

Those chats were something!

If I told friends what I'd been up to that morning they'd look at me pityingly....but I knew I'd had more fun than they could have had with " real" people.

As so many other people here have noted, i was lead here indirectly through Abuzz. (It was Jespah's "fault," too--she sent me an e-mail about this place.) What was alluring about this place was its general interrest. I visited and long patronized other sites, but their interests were narrower. There was an Irish site i visited for years, but it devolved into a sort of social networking site for young professionals in Ireland (and long before social networking was a concept for most of the world). There was also a site that i visited for years and at which i almost never posted, the focus and origin of which was a novel written in China almost seven hundred years ago. It would be hard to explain just what the allure there was, but despite a small membership it was a lively place. There was also a site, i guess you would call it a "skeptics" site which i eventually abandoned because too many of the people posting were preaching, and usually preaching to the choir. I became unpopular for pointing out to them both that they were preaching and that so much of their drivel was predicated on undemonstrated premises. I was even accused of being a christian saboteur!

The allure of this place is its general interest nature, just as was once the case with Abuzz.

THANK U, very much for your efforts in support of Abuzz, Sozobe.
Until your posts in this thread, I had no idea of your efforts on our behalf!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!





David

it was all jespah fault..sent me an email.
With the two years of Abuzz ingrained in my life and soul and that going through so many changes and down the drain (I also applaud you soz I had no idea either) it was nice to have a new place to go with familiar faces.
I also got no dang pen or mug. Buggers.

In an episode of the Simpsons, Homer writes a song Everyone Hates Ned Flanders, in which Apu has the line 'he's so white bread.' This was an unfamiliar use of white bread, and when I googled the term I was directed to A2K. This told me that 'white bread' basically meant bland and inoffensive. I had originally thought it was an American variation of rhyming slang as in brown bread/dead.

I had to find out why my husband was spending so much time on the internet, I found him here.

What brought me to a2k was the community around abuzz.com, a social network run by the New York Times 10--15 years ago. Back in 2000, articles on nytimes.com were followed by links to Abuzz, much as they are followed by links to Facebook and Twitter today. I clicked on one of those links and found myself on Abuzz. A few years later, that forum degenerated into noise and I left. Various members of Abuzz's started up their own sites, one of which was A2K. In early 2003, one former Abuzzer, who was also one of the first A2K members, invited me here. I've been posting here ever since, on and off but mostly on.

i really dont know how came to this website

Yes, and you shouldn't be here since you're only 11 years old.