ed84c Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 This could be an interesting thread; Tell us when you came across SF How and/or why you found it Any interesting/ good/ bad expereinces? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaKiri Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Radical Edward pointed me here to 'deal with' Zharkov. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Radical Edward pointed me here to 'deal with' Zharkov. Still not sure how I arrived before you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaKiri Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 A whole 8 days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 I don't even recall who referred me, just that it was from PAGD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 I think I must've seen that thread because I joined from looking on GD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiral_ju00 Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Tell us how and when you came across science forums I'm just curious, but where's your responce? -- For myself, I was a member of 6 other forums. All of them were automotive. Eventually there became a point where I was sick of the constantly overused and abused racing/rice_burner/political stories/jokes and decided to look for something I find more pleasurable: Science. This site wasn't too terribly difficult to find, although it was the Only good one I found at the time. Now since a few members have posted other decent forums linkys(i believe physicsforums.net and sciforums.com are some of the more promising) I'm addicted to this. Mainly due that the physics forum is well, mainly Physics, and sciforums.com is a cluster**** for the lack of a better word. While I like how both of the above said forums have a section for Anthropology/Archaeology, the majority of the issues/threads there are craptastic. I'll just stick around here for a while. Hopefully someday, there may be a need for the mods of this forum to add an Anthropology section, but at this time, there is really no need for that(discounting the typically once-a-month new thread on human evolution of some slight variation than is already posted). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blike Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 The first 15 members joined because they were in a chatroom with faf and I and we forced them to Then, this guy called jinx decided to spam the site everywhere (to piss us off, we hated him). He started out by entering chatrooms "Free XXX Pictures Click Here". So if you're one of the first members, you probably clicked that link Then he changed his line to: July 08, 2002 jon <fafalonex@aol.com> http://www.scienceforums.net/ http://www.scienceforums.net/ - created by lab scientists studying at yale - discuss various topics related to science and posted all over guestbooks etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J'Dona Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 I used to spend hours a day on cheap gaming forums. The average claimed IQ was around 136, so you can get an idea about what the people there were really like. After discovering just how low-brow the forums were, my sister suggested that I try and finding one related to an intelligent subject. I said I'd get back to her and continued playing. So she sent me a link to SFN (based on a 10 second search in Google). I made two posts and then forgot about this place for about six months, hence my joining in October 2003 and not really posting anything before April 2004. In early April I resolved to dump the main game that was interrupting my time when I was in a low point in playing, because exams were coming up. After that I wanted to find another forum to look at (i.e. compulsively refresh) and so I came back here, and I'm glad that I did. Incidentally I've started playing that game again... just another episode in the saga against subversive computer game mind control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodhound Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 I was a member of 2 other forums, before I got banned in one for creating havoc, and left another one for no apparent reason. I am a member of another forum, a very select community. to keep in touch with my old school mates. I came across this forum when i left the second forum i talked about. Just wanted to talk some Maths to pple, went to google and typed in "Maths Forum". unfortunately, the forum was WAY down in the results, so took me while to find it, but i knew i struck gold when i did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 I wanted to find a science forum and thats exactly what i typed in the search box and i think this site was first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 I was referred by someone from Physics Forums. I hardly go there anymore.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSX Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 google Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt_f13 Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 Karma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ubermensch Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 Free will. I wanted to talk science. So I went to Google. This site seemed superior on first inspection. So I signed up. There was no benevolent ghost or unseen force guiding my decisions. I was there. I made them. I know why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 I got bored (and I was boring others) in chat rooms for years, because I wanted to discuss Science rellated topics and no one was interested, so I Googled I`m a member of 2 other forums, Aommasters and http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk there`s no conflict of interest between SFN and these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed84c Posted July 24, 2004 Author Share Posted July 24, 2004 you want to know my story? well its very similar to that below... (based on a 10 second search in Google). I made two posts and then forgot about this place for about six months' date=' hence my joining in October 2003 and not really posting anything before April 2004.[/quote'] however, it was a coolish evening on the 08.02.04 (or the other way round if you are a spoon lol) anyway i was pondering on a question in the car 'whats the strongest acid, could it be a mixture of pure protons?' so a quick google search found me this site the address looked promising so I went on it an posted my question. I didnt really get an answer but the time for the responce was astonishing. I became obsessed with the site, and then started a thread, i dont remember what it was called, 'experimenting on myself' or something like that. It was probably one of the many most stupid things i did, however, whatever I sounded like it was purely hypothetical , you may remember it YT?? [ed84c bows head in shame]. Anyway after a couple more threads for some reason I forgot about the site (probably realised on a pay-per minute internet connection i was on it far too long). I rediscovered it (now on broadband) about a weekago, and once again have become engrosed in the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed84c Posted July 24, 2004 Author Share Posted July 24, 2004 He started out by entering chatrooms "Free XXX Pictures Click Here". So if you're one of the first members' date=' you probably clicked that link [/quote'] If that was directed at me i dont know what your are insinuating , but what ever it is, your probably right, im a sucker for that sort of thing, and I DONT mean advertising..............lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed84c Posted July 24, 2004 Author Share Posted July 24, 2004 and i wasnt 1 of the first members so it prob. wasnt directed at me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 I became obsessed with the site, and then started a thread, i dont remember what it was called, 'experimenting on myself' or something like that. It was probably one of the many most stupid things i did, however, whatever I sounded like it was purely hypothetical , you may remember it YT?? [ed84c bows head in shame']. Indeed I do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed84c Posted July 24, 2004 Author Share Posted July 24, 2004 i think it is best forgot about, not my best moment............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Indeed not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed84c Posted July 25, 2004 Author Share Posted July 25, 2004 you remember as well dave? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiral_ju00 Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 You're talking about THIS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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