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Posted by Kasie H (Member # 2120) on :

...that keeps me coming back day after day?

I was having lunch with katharina today and I realized the last time I'd met Hatrackers in person was three years ago.

Three years!

I've been posting on this forum since I was sixteen. Now being 21, that means I've been here for more than a fifth of my life. More significant, I think, is that I have been a Hatracker half of my high school life, my entire college career and now on to the beginning of my adult life. That's a lot of changes!

Hatrack's changed a lot too, it seems. Watching old posters fade, others change names, and new ones flock is really an interesting study. I think Hatrack's gotten younger since I started (though maybe I've just gotten older!) because I remember being one of only two or three other high school-age kids in the beginning.

So, anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for all of you for putting up with me for so long [Big Grin]

. I've been in and out in the weeks and months and years since I first found Scott's site, so thanks for talking to me even when I haven't spoken up in awhile. I've changed a lot since the beginning, so thanks for putting up with my evolving maturity (or lack thereof [Smile]

). Thanks for helping out with personal problems; it's really nice to have a relatively objective take on things that I was way too close to.

All in all,
[Group Hug]

(((Hatrack)))

Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :

I come here for the free cookies.

*munch*

Posted by Jeesh (Member # 9163) on :

Power to the young people!

Unfortunatly, that also means I won't meet any of you for several years, unless I already know you. Then [Wave]

Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :

Kasie, I don't think in your case that enjoying your company here can possibly qualify as "putting up with". [Smile]

You've always been a vibrant part of Hatrack. You're part of what makes me come back again and again, even though now in my retired life I'm almost never at the computer anymore. [Big Grin]

Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :

Yeah, me too. I logged on for the first time at the very start of 2001, just barely fifteen. Strange as it is to say, I think Hatrack may be the most constant and familiar community I've ever been a member of.

I like this place.

Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :

Wow, I feel simultaneously very new and very old.

But I love this community for all it's taught me. There aren't many places I can go to learn how so many different kinds of people feel about so many different subjects, while still feeling like a community of people who care about each other. Church is too homogenous; my town is too big; my neighborhood is too busy for us to really talk and know one another. But here, there are so many diverse opinions that still fit. [Smile]

Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :

Kasie, I know exactly what you're saying. Except it's been about a year since I've met any 'Rackers. [Frown]

Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :

quote:

Kasie H:
What is it about Hatrack...that keeps me coming back day after day?

I have that affect on people.

Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :

Steve, you're the only reason half of us are here.

Katie, I think Hatrack's gotten younger because ti used to be most of the teenagers went to YWW.

Posted by Jeesh (Member # 9163) on :

Or more people Google OSC and find Hatrack... at least, that's how I found it.

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

It's weird to me, from the other direction, looking at people like Pix and Eddie and Human and Kasie and going, "Geez, they're adults now."

It's rather disorienting. I mean, some of you are now as old as I was when I started here. Which isn't saying that much, but still....

Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :

Kasie H is cool.

Anyway, Hatrack employs subliminal messanging to control people.

Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :

quote:
Steve, you're the only reason half of us are here.

Well, geez, Captain Obvious. [Wink]

Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :

Hey, Captain America is the reason I'm here. I mean Steve Rogers...I mean....oooops.

I was never good at that secret identity thing!

Posted by Cavalier (Member # 3918) on :

quote:
What is it about Hatrack...that keeps me coming back day after day?

I dunno, the same thing that keeps old lurkers (such as moi) checking back in?

Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Javert:
Hey, Captain America is the reason I'm here. I mean Steve Rogers...I mean....oooops.

I was never good at that secret identity thing!

That's alright. In one of the numerous comic books based on my life, I reveal myself to the public anyway.

Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :

I don't know either. I had kicked the habit totally, then one of my friends wanted me to come back so I did. I'm coming up on 10 years, I think. I think my first post may have been in 1996. It changes all the time, Hatrack does, and yet there must be something that stays the same, and keeps me interested. I am not sure what that is, but it might be the people.

Posted by Zotto! (Member # 4689) on :

I've been lurking since at least 2000, when I was barely into High School. Now I'm in the workforce. O_O

I agree with Eddie; I've moved around so much that Hatrack is one of the only constants in my life.

It is also totally weird. But then, I like weird.

Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :

I'm another in the Joined-At-Sixteen-Am-Now-TwentyOne boat. I know exactly what you mean!

Cheers [Smile]