Welcome our newest members - Page 18

Zil · 12-03-2007, 11:19 PM

Welcome Blerg, Gingham and Lhianeaivee!

I hope you all enjoy lifesupporters.com as much as I have been, (I'm still fairly new)

Nice sig pic btw, Lhianeaivee - what's that from?

jonbey · 12-07-2007, 02:48 PM

Hello Lifers,

I stumbled across this forum, looks good! I am a new father, got a 6 month old son. Still looking around the forum to see what's what.

Cheers

Jon.

PepsiChic · 12-07-2007, 03:08 PM

welcome Jon!

congratulations on the news of a baby, that must be amazing

make yourself at home

x

jonbey · 12-07-2007, 03:10 PM

I was just reading the first posts on this welcome thread - are many of you friends? Or is the forum now a little more diverse? Where is everyone from? I forgot to say, that I am in the UK, work in London, live just outside of it.

PepsiChic · 12-07-2007, 03:19 PM

yey another brit!

i live in Burnham - just below Bristol, i know theres 2 others here from Nottingham. and another near London i think. majority here i think are American and Canadian.

mainly the connection we all have is being here! its very easy to make friends here, and as time goes on friendships grow and expand.

theres a few other connections, myself, duke, notarget, weiser and fireblade know one another from else where. and Fireblade is also my fiance.

read THIS THREAD to find out a little about everyone:

Duke · 12-07-2007, 06:41 PM

Whoa sorry folks, it loox like I've been asleep at the wheel

Welcome Gingham, Blerg, Lhianeaivee, jonbey and Promise; I'm glad you've found our sanctuary and look forward to seeing you all in our forums.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jonbey

I was just reading the first posts on this welcome thread - are many of you friends? Or is the forum now a little more diverse? Where is everyone from? I forgot to say, that I am in the UK, work in London, live just outside of it.

This is a hard question to answer for me because even though I've never met some of our members, I can say that I feel many (if not all) are either my very good friends or are on their way to becoming good friends. I can say that prior to 2007 and our switch from the phpnuke/bbtonuke/phpbb Content Management System to Joomla/SEF Advance/vBulletin/VBSEO, I personally knew 75% of our newly registered and active members here.

Now that we've switched to much more "professional" and "SERP Friendly" software, our site has begun to reach audiences that wasn't possible with phpnuke. For this reason, new membership is not only on the rise but it also consists of people none of us are familiar with.

This does not negate the fact that new members such as yourself are not friends however because the more active you are around here, the more we all get familiar with each other and the more you become embraced by the site. Pretty soon you're a part of an online family that really cares about you and what's going on in your daily life.

I can't say when or how it happens, it just does and even though my opinion may be slightly biased I have to admit, it's prolly the coolest forum experience I've ever had on any site.

The other thing I'd like to point out is that we are not a Mod Happy Forum. Unlike most interpersonal websites, we do not discourage you from being yourself and picking whether or not you be serious or be goofy within our forums. We have plenty of areas for just goofing around as well as plenty of areas for discussing serious topics. We also acknowledge that a topic can morph into another topic so you don't see a lot of locking, splitting, moving and warning in topic because all it does is demonstrate that we care more about the site than the members.

Also, our Staff does not comprise of my drinking buddies as you see at many other sites. Becoming Staff at Lifesupporters.com is an earned position and is only available to members who've shown a knack for making new members feel welcome as well as a genuine interest in helping out. Our Staff discusses questionable content and acts as a committee when Policing the forums. I like Staffing by Committee because it means that no one member (including myself) has total autonomy here given the fact there are usually two sides to every story (unless your an obvious spambot or self promoter only here to peddle your wares that is). You should notice quite quickly that Staff are in virtually every topic and the reason for that is simple, we're not here to watch what your doing, we're here because we care just like you do.

As much as I Love Lifesupporters.com I have to admit it is only software; the soul comes from good people like yourself and all your peers in forum. You people are the reason we are here and we'll always be here for you. The only thing we ask is that everyone try and keep their input as clean as possible (not necessarily Church clean) as we are a "Family Friendly Website" and are certified with I.R.C.A. and Safesurf as "Web Everyone".

I'm not sure if this is the answer you were looking for so my apologies. I have a tendency to start off with one idea and then have it split off into many different directions.

Zil · 12-07-2007, 06:58 PM

Welcome Jonbey! I'm currently in Indiana, USA but within the next week or two I will be back "home" in Tennessee, USA where I belong.

I'm still fairly new here myself but I love it here and as Duke said, I already consider everyone here to be my good friends or are on their way to becoming my good friends.

Duke · 12-07-2007, 07:07 PM

You've certainly become a part of our family Zil and we're all glad to have you here with us

Zil · 12-07-2007, 07:54 PM

Group/Family hug!!!!

TKDLady · 12-07-2007, 08:00 PM

Welcome Jonbey. I hope you enjoy it here and we look forward to welcoming you into our growing family. This site has been a life saver for me and I hope you find what you are looking for here as well. I am from the USA, Florida to be exact. I am black belt in Taekwondo. I only mention that because you have mentioned martial arts. I have been doing TKD for almost 12 years now and I love it. Again, welcome and you seem to already have a good start on posting so we should get to know you real soon.

IR_Efrem · 12-07-2007, 11:55 PM

Welcome to you all - I look forward to posting with you all and I believe you will like it here, I love these guys, what a great group of people!

PepsiChic · 12-08-2007, 01:29 AM

awwww *BIG FAMILY GROUP HUG!!!!*

jonbey · 12-08-2007, 06:17 AM

I thought that the tkd might stand for taokwondo. I actually started my first kung-fu class in 1992, but as I kept moving around, I never stuck at one style long enough to get to black belt! Saying that, I have been doing my Chow Gar for about 4.5 years now, and have no plans to move away from the area I am in now. I think that I could make black belt in another 4.5 years if I work harder! My club also does kick boxing, which I am trying to attend more, for fitness, so I could start grading there. Got an orange belt I think, but I am not really a grading person. I just enjoy learning and play fighting really!