Oh, no, thank you all guys
While we are in the topic. Considering you've been around for a long time and know the site inside and out, what would you say is the #1 thing you'd have added to the TS experience?
Thanks!
Actually to everybody in this discussion.
Very early on, I don't think I added anything, I just absorbed. I learned a lot about computers, I learned a lot about how this board was ran by the mods, and I believe I learned how a board should be handled by the mods.
From about 2001 until about 2007 I think I contributed by helping a lot of people solve problems, or by giving at the very least solid troubleshooting advice. Stuff I had learned in my early years here and had continued to learn through staying here. Also, and this may come across as me having a big head, but, I think I was a pretty good moderator, was probably a pretty good one up until I got a real serious girlfriend in about 2009. I cleaned up a lot of stuff, all of us mods did. Before a lot of the good spam control systems we have now were in place, we'd often have random spam drivebys where hundreds of threads or posts would be created in a very short amount of time. Myself, and other mods really took care of that well. Almost all of us got along really well and felt we knew each other personally, ICQ was a good communication tool. Having mods from various countries across the globe really helped with keeping the site spam free any hour of the day.
Since 2007 or 8 I don't think I've contributed much to the site as far as helping people, at least not on the scale I once did. I simply don't know as much about 'current' stuff anymore. In 2008 I also left my job to pursue further education, so I no longer had an income to keep me motivated to learn about new technologies to the extent I once did.
Since 2009, I spent quite a bit less time here due to a serious relationship. So same as just above, but even less.
Now, I'm no longer in that relationship, but also unemployed and still struggling to pursue that higher education I left a good job for in 2008. I still can't add much to the solving problems part of the site, but I can still be a decent moderator, and am still striving to do that.
I doubt Julio was really looking for my response in this, but rather a more 'typical' user. But I hope this at least gives more of a background to what has happened with me and this site since 1999.