I joined the forum in 2009 but didn't start to post regularly until 2014, when TS4 released.
For The Sims, TS2, and TS3 I spent most of my time at Neighborhood 99, a Sims fan site, where I was a moderator. Some of the other sites I frequented were The Sims Daily, Sims Crossing, MATY and Black Pearl Sims.
Edited to add: Also were you a regular at any other fan sites back in the day?
Rather than just...staring into the void - as one would- I decided to do a bit of forum lurking instead. This is when I discovered the Nifty Knitting deep-dive thread. Now, if I had been a Sims 4 toddler, I'd be an inquisitive one. If we could choose TWO traits instead of one, I'd also be an angelic little toddler ... o:). Alas, I am not a toddler, I'm an adult - however, it is fair to say that I am an extremely inquisitive one. Due to my inquisitive nature I love behind the scene threads/ docus, etc. and finding out about the origin of ideas and following the process of how stuff is produced etc. etc. is truly enjoyable. I find other people's creativity to be very inspiring. Etcetera.
Did I want a Happy Haunts stuffpack instead of one about Knitting? Absolutely. I don't know how to knit but I do know how to haunt happily, so twas an obvious choice. But, hey, folks insisted virtual knitting was more important plus I had to self-isolate (if I wanted to avoid arrest) and so this is when I learned how to appreciate the idea of knitting in The Sims 4. I deemed it crucial to let SGConor know how much I enjoyed his Deep-Dive thread. You know, words of acknowledgement, encouragement 'n all that. It's great btw! I miss threads like that. I really do. Consider this a hint.
Anyway, I tried to sign up here only to find out that somehow I was already a forum member since 2013?! Took me 7 years to realize. I was like: "Oh. OK."
Below you can find my thank-you post, which was also my very first post on the official forums, on page 4 of "The Sims 4 Community Voted Stuff Pack Deep Dive: Nifty Knitting" -
"Bluegayle;c-18117068" wrote: From the Sims BBS? I think thats what it was called back then. Was that 2000? Then every forum since. No memory problems here. Ha ha I remember Neighbourhood 99! Not sure if i was a member though.
Hmmm Maty , I can't remember the first Pescado forum but was there. MTS, Sims Resource and the list goes on. How I ever found time to go to work is a mystery.
I was only a lurker at MATY. Never posted. That was a brutal bunch and I didn't want to get my feelings hurt. ?
I was active for a little while on the old BBS system in 2005 but stopped going there due to some rather unkind ageist remarks by a few other members.
Not long after that, I joined a TS2 forum I found from reading an ad at the end of a story on the Exchange. Eventually, I became a Staff member and then the Admin/owner when the founder of the forum left. The forum is closed now, but I have many fond memories of that Golden era in the Sims.
Fast forward to July 2014 when I rejoined the official forums once I heard a new iteration of Sims was coming out soon. :)
@CAPTAIN_NXR7 seems like you've been here forever. And that's a good thing. :)
One of my first posts/discussions was The Sims 4 Happy Play Thread. https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/837334/the-sims-4-happy-play-thread/p1
Those first months of TS4 were vicious on the forum. If you think the weekends here can get sort of unruly it was a battleground back then. I just wanted to create a thread for players to share their enjoyment of the game. I enlisted the help of a couple of lovely simmers, @luthienrising and @Hermitgirl to help me police the thread and report toxic behaviors.
I joined in 2017, one of my first posts was on a thread that was from 2014, so I got a warning that I was necroposting. :D
After that, I think I became a little more active a couple of years later. I have always liked taking pictures in games, so I started posting some, and then I noticed that there were threads about it, pretty soon I enjoyed visiting the forums and discuss different things.
I was never really a simmer before that, I like variety but I often see myself coming back to the sims and even if I don't play the game as much as I used to I still enjoy visiting the forums.
"Bluegayle;c-18117068" wrote: From the Sims BBS? I think thats what it was called back then. Was that 2000? Then every forum since. No memory problems here. Ha ha I remember Neighbourhood 99! Not sure if i was a member though.
Hmmm Maty , I can't remember the first Pescado forum but was there. MTS, Sims Resource and the list goes on. How I ever found time to go to work is a mystery.
I was only a lurker at MATY. Never posted. That was a brutal bunch and I didn't want to get my feelings hurt. ?
