Hello, New Members. I'm an Old Member.

[Taco-Calamitous]

Telegraph was my first sn, after a ska band from Chicago. Uncle Tom was my second sn. I had never heard of Uncle Tom's Cabin; I changed my sn to that because I had become an uncle. Then I switched to Tom (which is my real name) for a while. Then back to Telegraph. Then Taco Del Fish (after Taco Del Mar) Tele Taco (a horrible sn; I blame Strong Bad for suggesting it ) Calamity Taco during the short time that I was a moderator, Gust Gummi after I requested to be demodded (mostly to confuse people) and finally Taco. That's nine name changes. Although it's probably not the worst *looks at Piro* I also requested it be changed to "ScroogeMcFuckingDuck" at one point, but the staff wouldn't let me. Oh well.

My first friends were Tifa Leonheart, Llanowar Dead, and this other guy whose sn I forget (he hasn't been on for years.) That was my TFF Family, back in the day. Llanowar hasn't been on for years either, and Tifa (now Tiff) I haven't talked to directly in like two years, although I still see her around. SSJ4 Goku and El Spam (I'm guessing one of GI Jew's many sn's) were two of my really early friends on here. Then there was the Hall of Doom.

Further more, I like tacos, but burritos are better; they're bigger. At least the ones I like are. Anyhoo...

Wuv, Yer Mom

EDIT: Yeah. Being a mod takes a lot of time and effort. And it's a lot like a regular customer service job; you can do the best you possibly can, and people will still find something to complain about.

EDIT EDIT: Oh yeah! I forgot to mention that I was 16 when I joined. I am now 23. ...why am I still here?

[Koda]

I am also pretty new. About a year now I think. But I, like you, do for the most part stay in the shadows and read more than participate for the simple reason as you stated. So many threads are repeated time and time again. Although, I guess sometimes that might happen because of the different age gaps or newcomers that may not have seen the thread before. Whatever the case may be, I have read some of your posts, and I also must say that I am happy to meet you, and hope to maybe sometime share thoughts and/or differences in future threads.

[Quistis]

I got many name changes but none of them really stick out. I would give 1000 gil to anyone who can enumerate them lol. I am more known to changing my avatars 10 times in a single day back then. =P

Let's see..I used to mod Clubs with Heero/Keisuke and then co-mod with Tiff and Arus Kim for Digital Community. Due to busy-ness I had to quit my mod status. Also joined EBG (and still am a part of!) and had that one epic RPB against Tantalus that I am really proud of being able to join. I also had the privilege of being able to participate to Tournament of Arms and got one memorable battle with True Omega (despite my bad grammar lol) . Not sure of this, but my battle with Keisuke may still hold the title of longest RPB. We reached 250 posts (of mostly nonsense lol)

I was also a self-proclaimed TFF matchmaker once. I got a few TFF families - Cobain, Chocobo , Mr Keen/Strong Bad...*memory failure*

I also led the TFF Femme Fatale club back then. It was a pretty cool club of TFF females (was invite only though. We wanted to make sure that we get the members who are consistent posters with good rep, not just those who come and go). I miss Arus Kim, Yuna and Tiff >_<

I joined TFF in 2001..so I was like 21-22 when I joined...stop counting my age or I'll poke your eyes out =P

Ah...see I didn't know that Taco was Telegraph. I think I remember you making usually long posts back then

[SSJ4 Goku]

Ahh, it's nice to see what an enjoyable thread I'm treated to when I dare to venture into other areas of the forums here!

Although Taco is probably the only one in this thread who will recognise me (well, Piroblaze, too, if he's still reading it), I've still decided that, for old time's sake I'll put my two cents in, too.

I was 14 here when I first joined, and oh, how time has flied. Due to stubbornness (and laziness), I've never changed my name and only changed my avatar once since coming here (though I have no desire to change my avatar, I should probably have changed my user name long ago, but then there would be even less of a chance that anybody would recognise me -_-). I'm actually glad I've kept my journal here for five of the past seven years I've been here, as it's a nice reminder of old times. My mainstay was the club section, where I participated in (and ran a few) clubs, mostly dealing with anime and/or games. The massive change to the club section and the subsequent disbanding of many of them killed a lot of my activity here, but I still persisted. I served as a mod for the Anime Corner briefly, but that was also until they revamped the mod positions due to TFF's declining activity at the time, when only a small handful of people decided to run the show.

Now I still lurk, reminiscing of the good ol' days, where I'd converse with Taco, Spike, Usagy, and the like, generally updating my journal at least once or twice a month to keep all of the world updated on the life of a member they probably never even see post anywhere else.

[Usagy]

Old member reporting /
Meh, joined in 2002, eventually made it to mod, modded like 4 forums including general chat. At that point I think I actually knew practically everybody, even most new members, that's how active I was.
Eventually some shit changed and I got less interested with TFF, but still I like to post/lurk once in awhile. Mostly active in FFXI forums I suppose.
After the time of my huge activity there ain't many new faces I've met, only a handful of friendly people I have found, mainly through random tff msn chats ^^
I don't mind meeting new people, but I am just too little on these boards to get to know then I guess, ah well. /emofaced panda

Peace out