I am Home.

[Tanhì]

Kaltxì, ma oeyä ayeylan.

I didn't come to ToS for the reasons that most of you have... I wasn't a part of the "drama" (I'm still not even sure exactly what happened), I wasn't banned from AF and forced to find another forum. I am here because AF was no longer a home to me. It was not the same place that it was four months ago when I joined.

I remember when I heard about ToS for the first time. I read that some of the older members and ex-mods had started a new site and were trying to get the sense of community back. Without I second thought, I found the link and signed up. As I was reading through some of the comments on AF, I started to feel guilty. Many people said they were too loyal to AF to join another site. Why hadn't I felt any loyalty to AF?

I didn't have to look hard to figure out why I didn't feel attached to AF. I started by looking at my subscriptions. Threads I had subscribed to that discussed deep, meaningful topics were dead, or had turned into flame wars. The few active threads I was still subscribed to were about frivolous things, things I could talk about on any other forum.

And I has been seeing an increase in hostility, both by the members and by the mods. I saw an increase of negative, hurtful posts. This was not the same community that I had joined months ago. These were not the same people who had helped me through the Pandora Effect.

So I stopped posting in AF and moved my attention here. For the first few days, I felt like I had lost the sense of community, and I would never get it back. It still didn't feel like home. I was desperate, though, so I decided to stay active here.

To my amazement, my feelings changed. I started seeing some of my favorite threads moved here. I saw many people here who I had started to miss at AF. I started seeing more of the kind and caring people that I saw months ago.

Long story short, I feel like I am back in the same community I joined months ago, and I want to thank all of my smukan sì smuke who have made that possible... You all are really like a second family to me, and I am glad that we have a home again.