<p>What was the first forum you registered at? Mine was GameFaqs, (hundreds of posts) followed by Nsider back in the summer of 99! ♪Oh yeah....In the summer of 99! Ohhhh yeah! In the summer of 99!</p>
<p>♬...those were the best days of my life.♬♪</p>
<p>Mine was also Gamefaqs.</p>
<p>My first was a forum made by a friend on proboards. It actually ran very well, I eventually became a co-admin there and the site had over 25000 posts and lasted for at least 3 or 4 years, not like most personal forums that go under after the first couple months. Unfortunately the owner deleted it due to certain circumstances.
And then after that, I joined Smash World Forums.</p>
<p>Age of Kings Heaven (HeavenGames): January 2001. Yay I violated COPPA!
Imperial-Games, Tonto clan forums: May 2001 (defunct)
College Confidential: February 2004
the list goes on...</p>
<p>Do you ppl like to read your old posts? How much of the gamefaqs boards have been archived?</p>
<p>How active are the gamefaqs boards compared to this anyways? And have you met any REALLY intelligent people there? (it often is that people online are smarter than those in real life)</p>
<p>My first forum was a Louisiana High School Soccer forum.</p>
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<p>It was a StarCraft website... I was so young that I didn't even know what Forum meant at the time and clicked it on accident. I don't remember the name of the website, but it wasn't that long after SC's release.</p>
<p>mine was a Roller Coaster Tycoon fan site, RCT Station, but it closed long ago <em>tear</em>...man those were good times.</p>
<p>right after that i joined the Ultimate-Guitar forums and have been a regular...well, i post a little bit, but i try not to spend too much time there, or any online community.</p>
<p>my first forum was Niketalk. A huge online community for sneakerheads (sneaker collectors) but also has alot of general posts, and hip hop culture.</p>
<p>I joined a couple forums, but never posted and I don't even remember what they are...</p>
<p>so CC!</p>
<p>wow, 2 gamefaqs already.</p>
<p>My first was gamespot in 2001, and I still post there today (although not to talk about videogames, usually).</p>
<p>I posted on and off at gamefaqs from 2002-2006. I liked their "character battles" for awhile. I nearly won one.</p>
<p>hm, how large is gamefaqs? and how intelligent is the community? are there some very intelligent people there? (I want to know, since it often is that people get connections on online forums - I learned of CTY's existence through them, for example).</p>
<p>and what are the boards on? I tried going on there, but I can only find console and social boards. I certainly can't find its claimed number of 50,000 boards. Are there boards on individual games?</p>
<p>And does gamefaqs save all of its archives in previous years?</p>
<p>I just registered for gamefaqs, and I still can't find any archives dating from before 4/20/2007...</p>
<p>is there an auto-pruning feature of the boards?</p>
<p>(I'm sort of curious about this, since I never went to a massive online community). All the Wikipedia entries for the boards I visit got deleted.
Okay, found it</p>
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How long do posts stay on the boards?
The daily purge process removes older topics from boards every night at 4AM GameFAQs time. Depending on how many messages a board has, the following schedule is followed:</p>
<pre><code>* Under 100 Messages: 30 Days
* 100-250 Messages: 20 Days
* 250-500 Messages: 15 Days
* 500-1000 Messages: 12 Days
* 1000-2500 Messages: 10 Days
* 2500-5000 Messages: 7 Days
* 5000-7500 Messages: 6 Days
* 7500-10000 Messages: 5 Days
* 10000-12500 Messages: 4 Days
* 12500-15000 Messages: 3 Days
* 15000-30000 Messages: 2 Days
* 30000-50000 Messages: 1 Day
* Over 50000 Messages: 1/2 Day
</code></pre>
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Well, I guess I'm glad I never really got involved with gamefaqs. I really treasure my old posts nowadays. My 12-year old posts still exist. :p</p>
<p>1/2 a day? that's a little too often...</p>
<p>The Tippmann forum (a paintball company)... back when I was into paintball.</p>
<p>The official Pittsburgh Pirates message board, four years ago. I'm still registered there.</p>
<p>My first, and foremost home: QJ.net</p>
<p>gamefaqs... was searching for rpg walkthroughs... probably pokemon cheat codes at one point :(</p>
<p>Squidi.net. Heck yes for A Modest Destiny.</p>
<p>why does gamefaqs delete the most popular threads first? That seems kind of foolish doesnt it?</p>
<p>gamefaqs gets so much traffic they have to. It would take an end less supply of money to archive everything.</p>
<p>gamefaqs has some extremely intelligent people on the veteran social boards, and a ton of little kids/idiots on the game boards. A lot of boards have a bunch of smart people acting purposely stupid, which is often entertaining.</p>