[Mikey]

I think the best indicator of how I feel about this place is the fact that I visit daily (often several times a day). I've actually had people ask me "What the hell is that forum you're on all the time?"

I forget how I was first clued-in to insertcredit. I loved the articles. I never bothered getting involved with the forums because they seemed like a really well-established community and I was a little intimidated, to be honest. I jumped into the forums over at largeprimenumbers when they started up and hung around there for a while. Then the IC forums imploded and Pikachu (I don't mean to single him out - his username is just easy to remember) and a few IC regulars popped in and started fighting and at around the same time I stopped visiting those forums for unrelated reasons.

Then I heard about SB and decided to give the forum thing another go. Since it seems like largely former IC forum regulars I occaisionally feel like an outsider, but I've been involved in some really good discussions and I know there will be more where that came from.

Attitudes around here form a broad spectrum. There's negativity, yeah, though no more than I'd expect to see in a classroom or maybe an office.