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I believe that all of the long serving members of the community have been guily of flaming new members at some point in the past. I certainly have been.
To be honest, it does get rather trying answering the same questions so the flaming was a natural progression. That doens't mean to say that it was ever right.
Fuck, I abuse this forum with the best of them with off handed remarks and incessant pisstaking but to be honest the people worth flaming are ourselves. We, generally speaking, actually know each other and are if anything more offensive to each other in real life. It's fair to say that new members are what has made this forum great.
If it had closed it's membership when the forum hit say 500 users then no one would have been able to join after 14/08/07. The last registerable user would have been Matt (baddesigner). I for one think that would be a great shame as some of the people I know and love started using this forum a long time after that date. My life would infact be poorer for it. The point that I'm making is that we need new members as much as they need somewhere to sell their wares or ask stupid questions. For every cunt that joins the forum there must be at least 2 or 3 real users who are benefiting our corner of the interweb.
I like that this forum is locally based so many of us actually meet and know each other. I wonder how likely it would have been for myself to meet say Murtle or Ray without this place?