What brought you to this forum?

[MC.no.spin]

Just curious, seems like a lot of new people lately. Multiple choice to address various possibilities.

[Tashah]

Good Poll MC. I have Stuck it to the top of the Polls forum.

[Trinity]

I was moderating another forum for some 2.5 yrs when I left it, never to return.

So was googling. I knew I wanted to join a new watering hole and liked politics, so googled 'debate politics'... this site was the 1st hit with 'Results 1 - 10 of about 9,670,000 for debate politics. (0.22 seconds)'

That's how I landed up here. I did looked at this site for half a day b4 deciding to join, having a 'feel' that I will like it here

To me, such decisions r pretty 'destiny-inclined', don't knock it, things happen for a reason

The major draw of this place was actually the music thread here that I devote a lot of time to btw : http://www.debatepolitics.com/music-...post1057633974 (What are You Listening to Right Now??)

[MC.no.spin]

Originally Posted by Tashah

Good Poll MC. I have Stuck it to the top of the Polls forum.

Well, thank you, Miss DP.

[CaptainCourtesy]

Hey, can we old-timers vote, too?

[MC.no.spin]

Originally Posted by CaptainCourtesy

Hey, can we old-timers vote, too?

Yes, I was just noting that interest for this poll will span just new posters. I suggest anyone (and everyone) vote and tabulators like myself can seperate out recent posters to see any trends and commonalities.

[CaptainCourtesy]

Originally Posted by MC.no.spin

Yes, I was just noting that interest for this poll will span just new posters. I suggest anyone (and everyone) vote and tabulators like myself can seperate out recent posters to see any trends and commonalities.

Cool,

I've only belonged to one other board...a computer builder's message board. They had an "Off-Topic" sub-forum that was very tightly moderated. They did not allow ANY controversial topics to be discussed. I kept getting warned because I kept bringing up controversial topics. Eventually, they developed a "sister" site, so those of us who wanted to discuss politics, or other similar topics, could. The site sucked, big time. Little activity, less intelligence. So, I Yahoo!ed (I can't stand Google) "debating politics" and I found several sites that were interesting. Debate Politics was, by far the best. I "lurked" without registering for about 3 months and, then lurked after registering for another 2 months before I made my first post. I think the two biggest drawing points to DP were the interesting people/threads and the fairness and balance. Also, the activity level here is awesome...always someone or something to talk about.

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

I came here because someone here asked me to join. - it is one of three political forums I visit and my favorite because of the balance of posters both in posting and in moderation.

[Tashah]

Way back when, I joined MSN and got involved in chatrooms. The room I liked the best (Friends4Eva) was owned by some Brits who ran an open, friendly, and mostly civil room. After about 6 months they made me a Brown Hammer, which is a Moderator. About a year later, I was made a Gold Hammer (Room Owner). Friends4Eva eventually became the largest (membership wise) private group at MSN with a main chatroom, a trivia chatroom, and it’s own website which I managed. We averaged between 5,000 - 10,000 chat visitors per day. I learned a lot there... how to manage a large Internet venture, how to program and run ircx scripts and bots, and how to interact with people from all around the globe.

At around the same time, I joined my first political message board. This board was part of a newspaper website in the UK (Independent or Guardian, can't remember which). It was mostly British and around 90% leftist so as an American and Israeli conservative, I got my ass kicked non-stop. But it toughened me up to the point where I knew I could hold my own on virtually any debate topic with virtually anyone. Got tired of all the gruff and started to look elsewhere.

Found Debate Politics through Google, watched it for a few weeks, and then climbed aboard. My first DP debate opponent was Simon W. Moon who is intelligent, witty, charming, and formidable. Voila! I loved this place! The rest, as they say, is history. DP is definitely the best political board on the web.

[independent_thinker2002]

I used to go to Yahoo chat rooms and that was a complete exercise in futility. I yahooed "debate politics" and found this place. I checked it out and a couple others. This place was the best, by far.