looking at a few posts from this page alone, a few people joined from 2009 onward and have almost a thousand posts already.
i would say only the die hards found this place early on it's existence and stuck around for that long. everyone else found it later, or decided to check it out later.
or finally decided talking turtles was worth putting up with this places reputation as being a hard butt tough as nails don't come in with a soft shoulder place
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i just find it interesting that people are willing to admit that it happens on facebook and youtube and other places, but are hard lined at the fact that it can't possibly happen on message boards anymore.