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Here's the most popular forums on the internet (sorting by posts, not by members):

Gaia Online
Anime roleplaying community 13747777

IGNBoards
General video gaming message boards 1255254

Nexopia
Picture rating, sex and relationships forums 1367686

4chan
Japanese culture message board 28362

FaceTheJury
Real life picture rating forums 552000

d2jsp
Diablo 2 video game forums 370723

Vault Network boards
Role playing games discussion boards 626203

Jogos
Brazilian games forum 172394

Offtopic.com
General discussion forums 194661

Doctissimo.fr
French medical help and health forums

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Offtopic


Gamefaqs


Face The Jury



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Admit it, you think you're a pretty cool guy on the internet. Ignoring your status in your horrible, hilarious real lives, once you get on the internet and start posting on SE, you're an Internet Cool Guy. Look at those forums up top - do those fuckers post as hard as us? Do they bring the cheddar to the table all day erry day the way SE++ does?

There's Something Awful, which is a bigger version of here, and of course Flyingstove and TTB and the other splinter boards, but does anyone here visit other boards with SE-like communities?

ITT we talk about internet communities and make fun of the losers who post on them

Centipede Damascus

I used to post on the Halfpixel forums

the people there are mostly a lot more polite than they are here

except for JCM

Sheri

Posting from Disney World

Giant nerd

Javen

I have never once entertained the notion that I am one of these Cool Guys you speak of.

satansfingers

i used to post on a fantasy football forum but the site died

can't really think of any others (aside from fs) i've been a regular at

Tossrock

Sheri wrote: »

Posting from Disney World

Giant nerd

Posting from the Sunnyvale Yahoo! campus

Nerd king

Wallhitter

Used to use Chatarea.

There was so much fucking drama there. It was basically an internet battleground. There I laughed, I cried, I earned a completely undeserved mod position, argued with the Morrowind developers...

So much stupid bullshit.

You see, this guy got SO PISSED OFF that he was banned from the Morrowind forums that he made a forum dedicated to hating on all Elder Scrolls games. I am not kidding.

OmegaTofuNinja

I used to post on GameFAQs boards quite frequently.

Then I found this place and realized how horrible the GameFAQs boards were and left

you guys saved me

Green

I don't post anywhere else really

SE is my home

Centipede Damascus

by the way, thank you for not screenshotting Gaia in the OP

the ugliest forum

Shurakai

I used to be a member of Gamespot forums and post with regularity. Oh how I have moved up in the world.

Scrumtrulescent

SE++ is really the only place I post

Marshmallow

I used to lurk a couple places but only post here. You guys are great.

Javen

Sheri wrote: »

Posting from Disney World

Giant nerd

You should also be AIMing from Disney World, nerd.

Sheri

Tossrock wrote: »

Sheri wrote: »

Posting from Disney World

Giant nerd

Posting from the Sunnyvale Yahoo! campus

Nerd king

I don't know what that means.

Worst nerd

Flavabean

I only post on forums when I'm bored and depressed with my life.

Kuribo's Shoe

it's sort of baffling the kind of intelligence that we see here

granted, some of it's misplaced intelligence, or the sort of intelligence a gorilla uses to learn sign language, but impressive none the less

I guess something awful did it first, but they had to charge a fee

Tossrock

OmegaTofuNinja wrote: »

I used to post on GameFAQs boards quite frequently.

Then I found this place and realized how horrible the GameFAQs boards were and left

you guys saved me

how much karma u got

2183

I Win Swordfights

I was a pretty big user of gamefaqs, but only because I'm terrible at video games and had to ask a lot of questions not found in FAQs or Walkthroughs because they're so blindingly obvious.

Javen

Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »

it's sort of baffling the kind of intelligence that we see here

granted, some of it's misplaced intelligence, or the sort of intelligence a gorilla uses to learn sign language, but impressive none the less

I guess something awful did it first, but they had to charge a fee

in the real world, stupid people try to act smart

around here, smart people trying to act stupid

though we also get a decent amount of the first one.

Kuribo's Shoe

I used to post in the dragonball z trading card game forums

yup

Shurakai

Honestly while there are some rough spots, the combined might of the entire PA boards are the best I have seen yet.

I believe that the internet in general is maturing though, as there is less and less tolerance for abject stupidity except where it is held on high as expected.

Critical

I used to be on GameFAQs for a while as well. What a fucking pit.

Now I mainly post here and on SA once in a very great while.

Scrumtrulescent

Honestly this is pretty much the best place

I feel like I know everybody

even though I don't

but some people do know each other, which is cool

Kuribo's Shoe

the pax forum is what the whole forum should by all rights look like

and yet somehow it doesn't

Javen

This is probably the nerdiest habit I have.

You're all my terrible, sordid secret.

Tossrock

Shurakai wrote: »

Honestly while there are some rough spots, the combined might of the entire PA boards are the best I have seen yet.

I believe that the internet in general is maturing though, as there is less and less tolerance for abject stupidity except where it is held on high as expected.

www.youtube.com

I Win Swordfights

Only my friend Joey knows about you people.

He tried coming on here to see what was up and came back the next day to tell me it was boring and unfunny

Turns out he was reading tube's circus.

Redeemer

I miss being 15 years old and posting on Gamefaqs

I was JillValentinesomethingorother

Shurakai

Javen wrote: »

Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »

it's sort of baffling the kind of intelligence that we see here

granted, some of it's misplaced intelligence, or the sort of intelligence a gorilla uses to learn sign language, but impressive none the less

I guess something awful did it first, but they had to charge a fee

in the real world, stupid people try to act smart

around here, smart people try to act stupid

though we also get a decent amount of the first one.

This. We can spot the real idiots right off the bat. Everyone else acts stupid because its funny. Intentional stupid is the hallmark of a good community.

Kuribo's Shoe

I have seen insane forums with no signature limits

signatures that take up the entire screen

it was horrible

BusterK

Used to post on Rotten Tomatoes
Lurked the snopes forums too
But that's it

#pipe

I used to post on a forum for a band street team

but there were only like 20 members

SE is my home.

Sheri

Javen wrote: »

Sheri wrote: »

Posting from Disney World

Giant nerd

You should also be AIMing from Disney World, nerd.

I can only do one of those at a time.

And I'm in an intermission, it's not like I could chat long anyway.

Graves

The only other forum I ever remember frequenting was the SWG boards pre-SWG til about 1 year after it came out.

Scrumtrulescent

I Win Swordfights wrote: »

Only my friend Joey knows about you people.

He tried coming on here to see what was up and came back the next day to tell me it was boring and unfunny

Turns out he was reading tube's circus.

If I were a first time forumer here, I would probably check out the subforum with the word "Circus" in it

My first post was in Linksville, about the NERF Longshot.

Then I was in G&T for a while.

Then I came here.

Sonny

I post on the gametrailers forums sometimes

Flavabean

my gamefaqs name was GeneStarwin

I didn't know it was spelled Starwind...

Javen

my friends/family know of this place, but I've never mentioned any of you specifically

except for Sheri when I tried to get my friends to buy her photobook.

Scrumtrulescent

And then I got famous [tiny]also banned[/tiny] 8-)

Critical

Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »

I have seen insane forums with no signature limits

signatures that take up the entire screen

it was horrible

Gamespy does this. It's fucking absurd.