MissMandie wrote:
Great thread, Kao!
Question: What game brought you to Allah's (if that's how you found it) and what made you say "Gee, I like it here so much I want to work for this site"?
The original everquest for me actually. On or around June 5th, 2000 I posted as "Kaolian from bertoxxulous" on the old UBB board version 1.0, and asked how a ranger went about aquiring the then at that time legendary Thorny Vine armor. Back then the forum was just an everquest forum. The people seemed interesting, and I couldn't believe that some of them (Praetorian and Usna to be precise) had over 1,000 posts! on a message board!
After that I kind of just stuck around. I saw the creation of the book forum and the Questions and Answer forum. The creation of the origional OOT forum was caused in large part due to my off topic antics (along with others, to be sure) Then came DAOC forums, and Asherons Call and Shadowbane, which I later hijacked into the first virtual empire of Shadowbania. The forums were always kind of "my baby", and I tried to help out with various tasks, reporting the bad posts, pointing out the occasional sockpuppet, etc. Eventually I got enough post count that people figured I worked for the site anyways, so they hired me!
Been here ever since.