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I feel like Farm Girl, kind of a has-been. I doubt many people here now remember me. I don't hang here much anymore, because my life doesn't have a lot of computer time built into it anymore. On the whole, that is a good thing.
Right now the wee ones are abed and the hubby is playing video games, so I thought I'd peek in on you guys. On the whole, though, I'm lost.
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Sorry, sarcare, but I recognize you. I must admit, though, that I've never looked at your registration date before. I've always assumed you were one of those people who'd been here forever but mostly lurked and only posted every now and then, and that's why I didn't see you too often. I'm not sure where I got that impression, but that's the one I had. Anyway, you're a student, aren't you? Grad student, I think? Sorry if I'm completely off base. . . Anyway, since you are relatively new, welcome to hatrack. Posts: 7954 | Registered: Mar 2004
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I recognized sarcare! We hijacked a thread together, him and I. If I remember correctly it was something of a volatile one, so I thought of it as my good deed for the week or month or so.
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I too have recognized everyone on this thread. I tend to read a lot more than I most, though, so that's normal. I don't think of myself as a lurker, because I post at a fairly steady rate of 3 posts a day, but when most people's average is 20...
sacare- Like ElJay, I thought you were an old timer who mostly lurked.
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I've been on Hatrack since November of 2000, but I've never felt like I connected with the community much.
I think I'm more of an oldbie than a newbie, seeing as how I can no longer shake the feeling that I've seen it all here and am consequentially starting to fade. If I ever had a prime at all, I'm well past it.
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That is funny, maybe the oldie vibe has something to do with the fact that I'm more of an oldie on Nauvoo, and have only started coming over here lately. I am a bit flabergasted that people actually recognized me, besides JennaDean who I know from Nauvoo.
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I recognized you, too, sarcare -- but, as Kwea pointed out, a lot of that had to do with the fact that when you first appeared, I thought you were an alt of Jacare's. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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I don't want Olivet, FG, or afr to fade away. And I want Olivet to finish her landmark.
I've never felt like a noob, even though I'm sure if I could reread my first 50 posts or so I'd probably change my mind about whether I was one or not. But, while I never felt like a newbie I also never really felt like a part of the community until I started to connect with people here on a more personal level, like around the time of my landmark.
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I just feel like I keep stumbling into the middle of conversations that are being held amongst a closed circle of old friends. Sometimes, there is no penetrating that core group that tends to monopolize the board...
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Narnia, you still feel like a newbie? Huh. ::scratches head in puzzlement::
Sarcare, it seems that you've made a bigger impression than you had thought. I'm familiar with you too, although I'll admit that until this thread I hadn't been sure whether you were a man or a woman. A month or so ago when I was organizing a little get together in Columbus I referred to you as s/he in the various messages I sent about it.
For a long time I felt like I occupied a really good place here, in that pretty much everyone knew me, but I didn't have the misfortune of having become an icon, or even a pillar. I think that that moment has passed, though. A fair number of people still know me, but I don't think that I'm active enough anymore to really be that well known, at least by most of the newer members. I wouldn't say that I'm a has-been yet, but I'm probably moving toward obscurity. I expect that I'll enter a quiescent phase before too awfully long.
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I think this thread proves we still have a lot of great people who are still integrating themselves into the fabric of hatrack. With all the talk about newbies not knowing how to act at hatrack, you would think it was all of them. But really, it's only a small handful of people who are treating this like a chatroom, with frequent disrespect and much less caring than is necessary. MOST of the newbies and the oldbies are still pretty cool people.
I'd like to thank mimsies for starting this thread to remind me (and I hope us all) of that little fact.
quote:Narnia, you still feel like a newbie? Huh. ::scratches head in puzzlement::
Not new I suppose, but not "integrated into the fabric of hatrack" as Katarain so aptly put it. Just because I mostly lurk and post things in the fluff threads or the congrats threads. Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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Narnia, I remeber you from before your mission, when you posted a thread asking for reading reccommendations. Someone suggested you read The Chronicles of Narnia, and I choked on my chocolate milk.
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*giggles at Olivet* I remember that too. Tom was the one who pointed out the irony which made it even funnier.
breyerchic: I see your point. I guess I think of it differently. My friendships that formed because of Hatrack are important to me, but because I don't have time (and am too insecure) to invest in thoughtful posts about what I really think, I stay out of the threads that seem to make up a lot of what people remember about Hatrack. Although...Begging the Question is rather legendary, isn't it?
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quote:Narnia- I certainly don't think of you as a newbie. Your kindness to everybody is a contribution and is noticed.
Amanacer, I'm sorry I missed this before. Thank you. (And thanks JemmyGrove for the 'Amen.' )
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quote:Originally posted by quidscribis: Wowbagger, you're wrong on the score of no one knowing you. Well, not to say I know you know you, but I do remember you and your posts and I've commented - on at least a few occasions - that I love your screen name.
His screen name extended out into the post, elegently, gently, and with a minimum of fuss.
quote:Originally posted by sarcare: After you said that you recognized everyone who had posted so far, I was wondering if I ought to post and ruin your track record. Well to be honest, I kind of wanted to be the one to post that you didn't recognize, it seemed appropriate somehow.
I recognize you, I have read posts of yours before.
You see, I usually lurk. I'm kinda shy and a loud moth at the same time... a quirky contradiction of my character I guess.
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