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Why are you here?
There are many people that come to teamliquid to learn about starcraft.
I used to be this kind of person.
I would browse every thread in the bw strategy forum that had a capital P in the name.
I didn't post much ever.
Then i got into the professional scene.
Reading the LR thread while watching the games was a real treat.
And there may be members of this community that don't even play starcraft but love to watch.
The first post I ever made was to say I would be attending a bw lan in toronto.
I got owned terribly hard and had an amazing time.
I wont go through my whole story.
This is what my most visited sites look like:
![[image loading]](http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa348/stark3r/visited.jpg)
The inspiration for this blog
There are so many communities that call themselves teamliquid its marvelous.
I wouldn't be surprised in the least to hear someone say:
"Yeah I go to teamliquid everyday but i don't like starcraft."
There is mafia, kpop, anime, dwarf fortress, figurines, pictures, nadalites, minecraft, eve, bw, sc2...
and so many more that i could never consider a list full.
I follow the blogs and community forums becuase I love the humour.
SirJolt, ILOVEKITTENS, tort, BLinD-RawR, Aeres (even tho you derailed by blog), all the mods,
and so many others that don't jump to mind make me laugh on a daily basis.
I dabble in the general general forum when a title catches my eye.
Unfortunately I usually end up cringing away from the debates that happen.
There is no flow to those threads its just people writing to the other half of the people they oppose.
I find the strategy forum crowded and awkward yet the recent improvements have helped so much.
I read the strategy forum more than I'm comfortable admitting but I feel like i can sift trough the bad.
I love TLPro and i think you guys made the right move making a special place for the team.
I also love the community news but rarely post anything there for the same reason that it usually becomes a debate.
Overall I love teamliquid. I come here everyday and I generally check it more than my email.
I definetely check it more than any social media site.
Thank you TryThis for the introduction to the site and many hours and hours discussing it in real life.
I'll be here for a long time so get used to seeing my (hopefully) funny and intelligent posts.
This is a bit of a mushy one but i want to know why you are here.
Which forums do you read and why?
This is going to be so bias becuase its a blog but I still want to know.
Tell me what your first post was how you used to spend your time on TL and how/why that changed.
A year after the inflation chaos I still feel like teamliquid's heart has remained the same.
So thank you.
Stay classy.
 
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Can admins look at user's first post?
I'm kinda embarrassed, what if I made a really shitty first post. TT
I'm all over the blogs, TL Community, and BW sections, less the strategy section because I don't play so much anymore. Most of my time is blogs/community, blogs because it's random and fun to read sometimes, and also community because I'm the co-host of the DC Area LANs and stuff!
Sports and games sometimes as well, I love reading the EVE thread even though I don't play much anymore. Most of my time on TL was previously as a lurker, I never really was "into" posting and becoming a part of the community, but now with the SC2 LANs, and running the TL Antihack with Probe1 and Arb, I feel a little more "in" the community, and I feel a lot more comfortable posting on random things on the site!
I think with the SC2 influx, there's a lot of newer posters and people attribute that with "lower quality" ... old TL had the same problems, just there was X number less people. So the reason the "bad quality posters" has gotten unusually high lately, is because the amount of TL users is WAY higher than before.
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I've written in detail why I'm here, but these are the basic reasons:
1) Post blogs
2) Read everything in the League of Legends forum
3) Stalk day[9]
4) Read everything I can find that's amusing/informative
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On July 20 2011 23:53 Torenhire wrote:
Can admins look at user's first post?
I'm kinda embarrassed, what if I made a really shitty first post. TT
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You can see your own first post. Log off and find yourself. Goto your profile and click on your number of posts then select the last page and scroll all the way to the bottom.
I find it hilarious to see my post count attached to some of my posts I cant imagine what yours would look like.
I think with the SC2 influx, there's a lot of newer posters and people attribute that with "lower quality" ... old TL had the same problems, just there was X number less people. So the reason the "bad quality posters" has gotten unusually high lately, is because the amount of TL users is WAY higher than before.
Exactly, the influx chaos that was sc2. I think that teamliquid did a great job of preserving what it was all about and there are great new people. A year later I feel like the worst people have been banned or become disinterested. The community survived the worst and it will only become more distilled as time rolls on.
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My posting history doesn't go that far back, it only goes back to DC LAN #5 which is...um...I think #11 or 12 based on my previous BW LANs that I've co-hosted. :p
This would have been April of 2009 for my first post, haha
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Touche!
looks like it only keeps 1000 posts.
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I come first of all for the SC2 strategy section and the live tournament feedback. Usually GSL is during working hours so I follow the games discretely from the live feedback threads, which are of very good quality.
Other than that seeing SirJolt featured brought me to the blogs section, and I started posting some of my own stuff, much of which Starcraft related. So in my eyes, TL is still an SC2 community. I play LoL quite a bit (usually late at night when I'm too tired for SC2) but would never think of TL as a forum to go to in ordre to discuss it.
Oh and the WhiteRa's Everywhere is absolute genius, as well as the streams. So stalking WhiteRa in his everyday life (lives?) is definitely a factor.
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I am hiding in the Lurker Den, TL Mafia forums. That's great place to be. Aaaaaaaaand Nazgul is playing with us.
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Aww~~
I read all the sections except the Tech Support because I'm not confident in my knowledge of technology and very little General section because the discussions that go on in there seem endless and often misinforming :3
My first post was I think when I started the first VT Gaming Community Open as team-manager~
Or was it something about streaming?
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My first post: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=96679
A mass hack accusation that ended up being true for the most part - epic win.
My essential function with teamliquid is to post/update BW tournament threads that are mine (I host the majority of them since SC2 was released). After that, I love to go through the BW Forums to see anything of entertainment. Thirdly, networking, TL is a great site to network with people - including some SC2 folk from Miami that I've gotten in touch with (even though I don't play or support SC2). Fourth would be when I'm bored, my first adventure is into the blogs, like right now, I'm posting this before I get ready for class. Then to tack onto the boredom, I love the General Forum or anything with random informative articles that make me feel just a wee bit smarter by the hands of someone not so much smarter than me.
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mafia is the most time consuming thing you could ever done on TL. It requires hours and hours of reading then logical thinking plus meta gaming hardcore and a slight bit of luck. strongly recommend to anyone have nothing to do with their life (i used to be one xD).
kpop is almost a closed community with the high top calling themself "KPF - k pop Flash". Any amateur go there are either controlled by them or sooner or later get expelled. One of the best example was HuK getting mind controlled and play a whole bunch of 2NE1 and TOP on his stream...
You forgot to mentioned LoL, one of the most non related to TL community that exists on TL. People there are mostly LoL players + TL mod admin who are noob at sc2 and try to find a team to blame their loses on. In all seriousness the entire community has like 4-8 pros for both EU and NA sever...
The top of all community is http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/ .... An elephant guarding the door: nuff said
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omg thats hillarious!
i never saw that elephant page before!
Aww~~
I read all the sections except the Tech Support because I'm not confident in my knowledge of technology and very little General section because the discussions that go on in there seem endless and often misinforming :3
yeah you cute little zergling you.
I read the technology section but don't post there.
It made me realize that setting my battery options on my laptop to high performance was nessasary -_-
I am hiding in the Lurker Den, TL Mafia forums. That's great place to be. Aaaaaaaaand Nazgul is playing with us.
jealous!
except i have never played mafia and don't intend on devoting time to it.
I really want to know how just for my geek cred tho.
@Malyce
Seems like this is the most popular story.
Everyone comes for the starcraft strategy then realizes there is so much more.
your blog on Switzerland is hillaroius.
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The blog section is remarkably entertaining! I'm an oldest brother of four and a lot of my communication that goes down in the blogs concerns "big brotherly" advice. I'm 1000 miles from home, so it's a little difficult to provide that for my own family on a constant basis. Plus I learn a lot about myself while writing everything up.
Besides that comes the hilarious bm thread, the zerg help me thread, and checking the strategy section to see if there are updates to strategies I use/lose to.
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 Bisu fighting!
I've been a protoss so long I would be foolish not to recognize the master.
I defiantly executed his build poorly more times than I can count before coming to sc2.
Sadly I don't follow the bw forums much anymore.
Still he helps me liquibet often :D
I agree that the blog section is entertaining.
I think i like it so much becuase the rules are that are you can be more relaxed.
I don't reread my posts before making them to make sure no one is going to flame me etc.
Also people get to talk about stuff and not just argue.
Girl blogs are ruining it tho.
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TL is easily the best forum i've ever been to, partially because of the cool team of mods (reading the Automated Ban List is a regular past-time for me. Sad? Maybe. Worth it? Totally) that keep the forums shit-clean. Imagine if there was some sort of moderation in the SC2 chat channels TT.
Anyway, I go to TL mostly for streams, but I like to browse the forums too and post as much as possible, though as you can see by my low post count i'm not a very avid poster. I love reading blogs, especially some of the girl blogs that are... ehh... desperate.
Most exciting forums for me though are the community news. I'm fairly up-to-date on everything that happens in the SC2 scene, mostly because I read basically every piece of news that comes out of the Community News and SC2 General section.
Theres also very very many smart and educated people on TL, as evidenced by the blogs/threads with a more serious topic of discussion (religion, death, illness etc) where people act remarkably mature.
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