User blog:Drew1200/My Message Boards History

In 2002 I got my first LEGO set. My Grandpa (who had got it for me) put me on a website (not lego.com) that had some of LEGO’s online games in it. My favorite one was Junkbot, I LOVED it, but I lost the link to it, so I just searched for it. Of course the #1 result was on LEGO.com, and I clicked on it. I made sure the game was the same one, and then realized that this was the OFFICIAL LEGO website! I was absolutely thrilled. By early 2003 I had my account. 2 years went by of just playing games, and then I discovered something that I hadn’t found before, called the “Message Boards”. The only forum I remember seeing was the Bionicle forum. I discovered the Kanoka Club codes there, and also, found out more about the LEGO Club site (I had done nothing except stickers and tick-tack-toe there). I started collecting the codes and got very high ranks on the LEGO club. But then MLN came, and changed everything. I joined it, and within 5 minutes was more addicted to it than anything else I had ever been addicted to. :P I was on there constantly, and made two friends, LemonLight, and LXboy, even though it was just MLN, it was very memorable. Lemonlight is now inactive, and LXboy is too…. But I know him personally so it doesn’t really count. :P I discovered some secret networkers there, and I wanted to find more. That’s when I remembered the Message Boards. I went there and found the MLN forum, and started going through the topics. I found tons of secret networkers like I wanted, so I kept going through the topics and posts. There was this one topic that I clicked on called “click request”. I went through the first couple pages, and realized what the idea of the topic was. I immediately made my first post! “many clicks here. please.” That was on May 25th 2006. I kept on looking through the MLN, LEGO.com Games, and Bionicle forums for the next couple years. Then something happened that made me stop looking at them. I didn’t even go on LEGO.com a whole lot. Then in August 2009, I started looking at them again! By September, I returned. I started out in the Power Miners forum under Peat-a-Peats’ topic “Questions about Power Miners or Rockmonsters? I’ll answer them!” I asked if there were more than one Tremerox and Geolix. Then, Rock-o-Ages (a JuniorBuilder) said that LEGO hasn’t said whether or not there are more than one, so there’s really no way for us to know, so for now, there is only one of each. I replied saying that he was wrong, LEGO did say, and there was more than one (according to an advertisement I saw on Brickipedia from LEGO). :P This of course wasn’t the greatest way to start my friendship with Rocko, but nevertheless, it’s how it happened. :P I started answering questions in the topic, and soon, I made it the Journeyman, and then Initiate. Rocko, who had been answering questions with me, invited me to the Magmites HQ that he had just made. So…. I joined the Human/Miner HQ. :P I started off with the job “storyteller”, which I still have to this day. The leaders of the HQ where Tommy_60, Indyman, then Steelersrule. Indyman and Steelersrule started to go inactive from the forum, and soon, they gave up their position. If you think I get it, then no way. There were about 20 other people in the HQ who proved themselves much more worthy of the position. But… it was never given away. One by one, they started going inactive as I started getting more posts. By this time I had become a Craftsman, and Rocko was almost an Artisan. It was around December of 2009. One of my friends started posting at that same time, 1999bug. At first I considered him one of the annoying newbies that just comes and eventually just leaves. But… he never left. He kept posting, and slowly worked his way up my friends list. He eventually made it to second. He is now my 3rd best online friend overall ever. Back to December 2009, though. Tommy_60 wasn’t super active anymore, and the only person left there that had been there longer than me was alx306. I decided to get him to 2nd-in-command of the HQ, and asked Tommy_60 if he could let him. He said no because he had disobeyed orders before. So, I asked him if I could have 3rd, which would give me the ability to give alx and in-command position of Tommy_60 ever went inactive. A couple months before this I had started posting in other forums, and by now half my posts where in other forums, mainly the Message Boards forum, but also in the Space Police forum. Tommy_60 let me be 3rd in-command, and I somehow worked my way to 2nd. At this point, I decided to join more forums and HQs. I did that, and started to run out of forums, so I went into the classics forum which I posted in a lot, and realized the sub-forums. I clicked on Exo-Force because I knew Rocko liked it (he was an Artisan now), and I wanted to see why he liked it so much. To my amazement, all kinds of spammy looking topics where all over, and a lot recent posts. At first I assumed a mod had just been there, but then more posts kept showing up, so I assumed a mod was still there. But new topics where coming up, too, and one of them was about “no moderation” I looked at it, and quickly made a topic of my own. I pressed post, and there it was, public. It was asking if the no moderation thing was real, obviously, it was, and Tommy_60 answered me by saying yes, and told me to stop posting there to avoid other people finding out and spamming. I did that, and then saw he had made two HQs. The Human one was a little larger, and had a couple people there, the other one, the Robot HQ, didn’t have anyone there. I clicked on it, and the topic was just asking someone to join and lead the HQ so that the robots and humans could start fighting. I thought about it for….. 0.5 seconds, and said I would join and be the leader. Then I realized that on the bottom where it says who’s on, that someone named Dude777477 (about 1,700 posts) was in the forum. I was excited because I had seen him in other forums, and was going to try to be friends with him. I posted in the topic he had to come to the Robot HQ. He did, and I made him 2nd-in-command. In about 30 minutes the HQ had gained 20 pages, and each of us almost 100 posts. We met again the next day (Saturday), and did the same thing. We where going to meet the next day, too, but had to schedule it later in the day because of church (4:00), we both ended up not being able to get on at the same time, and didn’t meet that day. I had about 1,400 posts, now. The next day I woke up at 6, and ran down stairs to find that the glitch had been fixed. I was upset, but the same day it was moderated again, and about 8 people joined the HQ because they heard what happened the previous days (it was the first time anything like that happened). The HQ became VERY popular, and stayed that way until the forum was deleted, but that’s a couple months ahead of where I’m at. Right after the glitch, I started posting like crazy. It began as 100 posts a day, and kept getting higher. I became an Artisan, and challenged the first Artisan I saw to a race to Inventor. That Artisan happened to be JohnnyNuetron. He had 2,300 posts, while I had 1,500. Everyone said not to do it, but I did. I kept doing slightly over 100 posts a day for 3 days, and then jumped all the way up 300 posts in a day. The next couple days I went to 150. It took me less than a week to get from Craftsman to Inventor, and I lost to JN by 30 posts… Back at the Human/Miner HQ in the Power Miners forum, JN had joined, I had moved up to second, and Tommy_60 was hardly active at all, but to active for me to take over the HQ because he was inactive. I kept asking him if I could take over it, or if alx could, but he wouldn’t let us in his 2 posts a week. So I just kept waiting. Soon, and user named Eagleeyedan2 asked if he could join. Right after that, Rocko (4,500 posts) asked if Eageleeyedan2 had asked to joined, and welcomed him. Since he did this, I assumed Eagleeyedan was a spy, because he had done the same thing multiple times before when he sent spies. So I told Tommy_60 in jammers, and Eagleeyedan, not knowing what jammers where, read them. I’m glad he did because I may have never known he wasn’t a spy, and he would have never been able to join the HQ. It soon got cleared up, and Eagleeyedan joined. I had slowed down to 50 posts a day, and left the Agents forum, the Atlantis forum, the Classics forum, and some others, too. Tommy_60 soon went inactive enough for me to take over the HQ. I became first, and made alx second, with JN third. It went really well for awhile, but then… Lego Universe Beta was announced. I REALLY wanted to try it, so I signed up. I kept posting for awhile, but in April, a month after signing up, I got the key. I immediately joined, and immediately spent all my time playing the game instead of posting. The only time I would post is while it was closed, and only in the secret beta forum. I kept on playing, while everyone else kept posting. Soon, in June/July, I came back to the Power Miners forum to see that Alx was a temporary first, JN a temporary second, and Silvertongue a temporary third. I told them to keep those positions, and that they were no longer temporary. I went back to playing my game. But, beta ends… so at the end of September, I didn’t have any more LU to play. I didn’t go straight back to the Message Boards, though. I would post a little bit, but not anymore than I did during beta. It wasn’t until November that I even considered coming back. So, I came back, and remembered how much fun it was, I kept on posting, and got back up to 50 posts a day, all in the Power Miners and Classics forums. I kept on posting, but then decided that I was going to try out editing on Brickipedia. I did that, and it was really boring, almost everything I made got deleted anyways. But then, I discovered another wikia called the Lego Message Boards Wikia. I kept posting some, but I kept putting more time into the wikia that I used to spend posting. So, I kept slowing down on posts, until it was down to less than 2 a week.

The next part of my bio is about the LEGO Message Boards Wikia (here).