1. What is the longest you have been with a message board (posting or reading – days, weeks, months etc)
I have been posting for 1 year, 8 months, and 4 days. And that be here on TPM.

2. Do you start topics? Why? - What do you gain from entertaining/enlightening/isulting the ppl here, who you've never met and can call most strangers?
I do start them sometimes, but they are usually in RPG or ASB where there is a whole lot of interaction. What I gain is some friendships over the internet. It also lets me apply what I learned about politics in some of the topics. ^_^;

3. Do you care about the number of replies you get for your topic? Why?
I don't really care actually. I have no reason for why though. =\

4. What do you gain from posting replies? (see q2)
Postcount, liking the quality of my post, and the occasional good feeling of ranting at someone who deserves it.

5. Do you care about the opinions of others at a board? Why?
I do care since everyone's opinions is worth reading no matter if they're right or how idiotic they are. I also care about people's opinions about me in the RPG and ASB because I want to improve myself in any problem area I have in the forum.

6. Do you care about the number of posts you have? If so, then what do you believe it says about a person?
I don't care anymore. I only care that my posts have a good quality to them. The number of posts don't necessarily say that the person is a spammer. Most of my postcount are posts that have some quality in it.

7. Do you post truthfully?
Yes I do. I dislike lying and people who lie in their posts.

8. Why do you think people spam?
For postcount and to be annoying.

9. Do you get into conflicts? Why?
Not really. I try to hold myself back in making rants most of the time. I dislike getting into fights with someone on the boards since I feel its usually not worth it and the person is usually idiotic. Right now its really hard for me to restrain myself from ranting in a certain forum.

10. At a board, is it worse to be ignored or to be hated?
I think its worse to be hated. For one its a bit depressing to know that you're hated. Two, flame wars and rants tend to pop up a lot more often if you're hated and you post.

11. Is your personality/identity/image/actions at a message board different from when you’re with family or friends? If so, then how? Is it closer to the ‘real’ you? Are they different at different boards?
My personality is very different outside the message boards with my family and friends. I tend to be quieter and very polite around them. I also don't show many of my views about the world and other stuff. Right now I'm trying to show the personality I have on the board with my family and friends since that's more to the true me.

12. Do you feel like you know the people at a message board?
I do know them reasonably well. Only a few I would know them just like they were my best friends.

13. Are there people you’ve met at a board that you consider friends as much as real life friends?
Only my best friends on the board are the ones I consider as much as real life friends.

14. What qualities do you look for in your signature, account name and profile?
It doesn't matter to me. Those things are just used to express themselves and/or personality a bit. It also shows how much of a vet they are when you look into their profile.

15. Why do you think people post the names of their clubs and board friends in their sigs?
They post their clubs as advertisement. They post their friends in their sigs to show how special their friends on the boards are to them I guess. *shrug*

16. Would you like to be a mod? Why?
This is the first time I'll fully admit it on the message board...so meh. I do admit I've been gaining some interest in being a mod. Though I must agree with vegatrunks's post on answering this question. Some of these mods are so power hungry and don't care about the other people who post in the forum they mod. The forum I mostly post in clearly shows an example of it. I was so close to leaving TPM because of it. -_- Anyway if I was a mod, I'd rather use my powers to help the people in the forum instead of throwing it around and showing off. I'd rather be the other definition of a leader than the one that some mods show when it comes to leadership.

~M~