Thread:Johnyjo/@comment-27281847-20151229142845/@comment-26080047-20160122034343

... *facepalms* How on earth did I miss this? :P So sorry about that. :P

Anyways, wow. :D Everything you said is super cool. ^_^ I'm glad you've had a good time on the MBs, I've had a similar type of experience. :P

Heheh, well... When I first joined, I got 4 ranks in 4 days... :P I was immediately hooked. :'D On the 4th day I found the official rank celebration topic and was like "Yay I got rank 4 today!  I got all the other ranks the past few days too" and everyone was really nice and congratulated me. :D I posted all around, so I didn't make any friends right away... :P I guess the first person I considered a friend was when Waterhorse641 and I met in the Friends forum... :P I was there because of, guess what, a debate. XD Little did I know that debates would be my downfall because after about one or two weeks I went to the parents forum and found one of those Simpsons debate topics... [fp] For the next few weeks I spent almost all my time on debates, I helped get a few debate topics locked along with my arch enemy... [fp] It was bad. :P

Luckily December 12th, 2014 I found Finding Friendships. :P I'd seen it before, but I thought it looked dumb. XD So I made a post there, and by the time January rolled around, I was a regular there. :'D First, because I was a still a Newb, I made a pretty bad post that got accepted... [fp] Luckily that conversation got dropped after a warning from the Mods. :P Then of course I ran into my second problem... Spam. [fp] There was one day where I made 150 posts. :'| But after Mish, Tad and I had been posting too much for too long, a BUNCH of users got mad and told everyone to stop with the spam... I remember one post where someone listed some users who they were asking to stop spamming and my name was on the list. :( Luckily though that (sort of) solved the problem, because after that I (mostly) didn't spam anymore. :D Of course not I don't think I spam at all... :P I actually don't post ENOUGH these days, even when I try to rejoin FF I'm very worried about spamming so I don't reply to things very often. :P XP But back to the story...

While I was debating I also met MarkSurge9411. :P At the time he had Hightland Battler, and I was like "Whoa, that's so cool!" and when I looked at his profile I found out he'd gotten HB if just a year. :O When I saw that I made it a goal to get Highland Battler by my one year anniversary. :P Aside from posting 1000 posts a month, that was the only goal I ever really had. :P

Back to FF, I made my first friends there... :'D Mish, Tad, Trooper... a little later on TLN, Bee, Bubsey, Breanna, Abbe, Elsa, Ked, NG... And very later on Plv, you, Varnika, Psycho... Lots and lots of people. :D I even started writing a story about my friends from FF and my RP character Sherlock Johny. :'D

Well actually some of those friends I met through SSS&UB which I'll talk about right now. :P

The reason I joined SSS&UB is actually kinda funny. :P FF was... TOO SLOW. :O:O:O And, this is kind of embaressing, but another reason I joined was because I wasn't getting very many likes... [fp] Nowadays I don't seek out likes but back then I was really working it. :P So I joined SSS&UB and while I had joined it so I would have another place to post and to get more likes... It ended up being the best decision I ever made on the MBs, while not exactly for the best reasons. :D Everyone there was super nice, and I had a great time. :D Of course the only problem was by the end of June, too many warnings had been given out and the Mods got fed up and locked the topic... [fp] I'm not at all happy about that, but there were some users who felt like they could really just do whatever they wanted. :| After that I was really mad, and I had actually left FF for 2 months... I came back of course, because there was no more SSS&UB. :P

Now, I don't remember the exact time of the decision, but at some pont along the way I found out that it was really fun to post in Welcoming and Help topics. :D So I went around and bookmarked all the big ones, Talk to the Mods, Welcome to the LEGO Message Boards, Adopt a Newbie, The Elite Rank Help Team... :P While at the time I didn't know it I think that was what eventually led to my getting chosen for the CH team. :D Anyways I'm taking a long time to get to the point so I'll speed things along. XD

The final stumbling block resting in my way was FF getting locked. :'| At the begining of August the Mods made a bunch of warnings about shippping... But due to a misunderstanding I ended up reporting a misleading post and, well... FF got locked. I was so angry and sad that I actually quit the MBs for the rest of the month. :O Even after FF was unlocked a day later I didn't come back... At one point I made 2 posts because TLN had returned. :D Sadly though he ended up leaving again right away... :( By the time I got back I had kind of lost my passion for FF, and sadly I don't think I'll ever be fully active there again... :(

But with my return came September, and just 4 days into that wonderful month I got the biggest shock of my life. :D I won the Most Awesome Story Award. :'D You have to understand, this was not one of my "goals" this was one of my "fantasies". XD :'D I was so shocked when I saw it on my profile... And then when I went to the GBA forum and saw the actual post, I was still so surprised... :D It was really great, and I have that GBA to thank for giving me a boost in writing... :D I actually wrote a lot more over the next few months which helped contribute to my lack of posting in FF. :P By the time I was nominated for the final GBA it was pretty much just surreal. :D I couldn't believe what had happened, and about a month later my shock became even grater when I got a jammered Message from WA telling me to check my email. :O

I of course didn't have anything new. :| My email provider had rejected the email as "spam" so I had to fish it out of a folder somewhere... :P When I did I was really surprised. :O I had been expecting an interview, which was something I had wanted ever since I joined but never really thought would happen... :P This sounds silly, but when I saw the subject about Community Helper Program I was actually bummed out. :( ...For about 5 seconds. :'D I repied right away, telling them that I wanted to join. :'D Then that night I asked my parents. XP I know I know, I'm so terrible for waiting to ask them until AFTER I replied. :P For the whole next day I was SUPER nervous... I was afriad my email would somehow get lost online and the Mods would choose someone else... :'| But later that day I got the confirmation email. :'D That was really just the icing on the cake for me. :D By the time I was officially in office, my first year anniversary had rolled around and I had accomplished SO MANY awesome things. :D

Anyway, the rest is pretty recent. :P Not too much has happened since I became a CH, I'm just kind of fell into ruetine... :P And maybe it's time to change that, maybe it's time I did something MORE on the MBs... :P Anyway, what was I building towards an hour ago when I started writing this summery of my entire MB carrier? :P Oh yeah...

First of all, when I joined if you had told me that by January of 2016 I would be RANK 16, have 3 badges, be a CH, have won the most awesome story award, and most of all, told me I would make dozens and dozens of friends... I would have laughed. :P Never in a million years could I have imagined how awesome the MBs would turn out to be... And they've even helped me through a few hard times. :P And lastly, as a kind of closing thing, I'm honestly very surprised that I've achieved so much after a very rough start. :P It took two whole months for me to just start fallowing the rules, and just ten months later I was being offered a spot on the Community Helper team... Crazy. :P I guess you can really do anything if you put your mind to it, although... I didn't. :P These things just sort of happened, so... Yeah. :P

I never would have guessed that ANY of this ^ would have happened. :P And to think that it's all because I was randomly messing around on my iPod one day... :P:P:P

So, to start this conversation back up again first sorry for writing that REALLY long post. XP Second, have you ever wondered what would have happened if you'd never joined the MBs? :P Not for you necisarily, but for the MB Community. :P Like, for instance, if I'd never joined someone else would be a CH right now, FF and SSS&UB might not have gotten locked (while I didn't MAKE any of the posts that got them locked I reported quite a few of them :P) and someone else would have won the Best Story Award. :P What about you? XD