What brought you here?

As for me, I switched over from Aardvark because I found out Google is shutting it down. It was a nice place. Sad. But I’m starting to like Fluther even better than Vark. The community is very friendly. The social section is awesome. There are almost none stupid questions. I really like it here.

Dell and Comcast, for starters. That, and the Great Answerbag Implosion of December 2009. Yes, I’m a GAI man.

Severe jet lag. lol

Longest case of jet lag in the history of flight, here I still am 18 months and 20,000 plus lurve later.

Dragged in by my hair courtesy of KatawaGrey (my daughter). Became addicted. Live here now. Can’t…escape…

Augustlan saw some questions of mine on Facebook and told me to check out Fluther. I didn’t at first, but once I did I was hooked.

Wis.dm died and someone said we should go here. So I did.

I just kind of found it by accident. I think I googled the answer to something, and one of the results was a thread on this website. I immediately fell in love, and made an account the same night. The rest, as they say, is history.

I came after the demise of wis.dm along with several others. Through wis.dm, I learned online has a lot to offer for faraway friends to be able to interact with each other and also strangers at the same time. Strangers become friends and then friends with your friends and so on. I’m still fascinated when someone wonderful and new seems to mesh right in.

@Neizvestnaya, @Simone_De_Beauvoir: Please enlighten me. Who was wis.dm?

Another answerbag refugee.

There was a link on metatalk about Fluther. Then I had a question that was stupid enough that I didn’t want to ask my one weekly question allowed on ask.metafilter so I asked it here.

I got a correct and prompt response so I looked around and found some computer questions that needed answers. 1,527 days later….......

Magnets & a series of pulleys & ropes.

Found when one of my students asked if it was a legitimate site to quote for a research paper (no, it isn’t), noted the address, and have been here since. It’s hard to get on now that school’s underway but, I’m still here.

Fluther is awesome. I love the people here, they’re sweet and intelligent. A good friend of mine suggested it.

@tlm It was a q&a site.

I was contacted (and after that contracted).—$25thou a year ~
But I have really no idea anymore how I landed here.
Probably through Google.

I kind of wondered in one day from Answerbag, to check it out & decided to stay……..
A better class of nutters here……. :-/
I fit right in.

@linguaphile :: Thanks for the postcards. They were a nice surprise in my prison-like days.

A relationship issue.

I was an askville refugee.

I rode the AB mass-exodus wave here along with a slew of other AB’rs that many are long since gone.

I was looking into marketing through social networking, and Fluther was one of the sites listed. I found the name interesting, came on and answered some questions and was hooked.

The (now defunct) iPhone app.

@Dog : I used my iPhone app just this morning…

I was dragooned in early days when family and friends were the sum total of the collective.

@gailcalled But you stayed on your own!

One day, I was just minding my own business, cooking a pot of hot and sour soup from a new recipe that I found online. It was starting to smell really good and I was getting really hungry, when all of a sudden a tentacle reached up out of my soup pot and grabbed me around the neck. It pulled and pulled and I started to scream, but then suddenly a warm, calm feeling of clarity came over me and I relaxed. Then more tentacles came up out of the soup pot and wrapped themselves around my entire body. Eventually I was completely enveloped and the Jellyfish pulled me into the pot. That’s where I’ve been ever since, just floating around drinking in the hot, sour, savory soup that is Fluther. It’s like mental umami.

Wisdm didn’t die, it was murdered.

@marinelife: True. This place has become one of the universal constants for me, in spite of the infamy of certain nephews who shall remain nameless.

Googled something which ended up landing my butt here in utter interest as Winters, then I left for a while, and then came back as King Pariah.

The crapification of AnswerBag, a Q&A site I attended for a long while. People mentioned this place, so I came to check it out.
Actually though, I had found this place before, but I remember being slightly turned off by the message board/forum approach. I should have explored more.

But yeah, after the AB thing, I messed around a bit, and found that it was really cool.

I stay because of the diversity here. We can talk about anything, there seems to be no limit, as long as it’s done according to the guidelines. Plus, I made some friends. That’s always awesome. There’s a nice community, and it’s pretty cool being able to say whatever I want without constantly getting raped.

AnswerBag was kinda like that, but even in its better days, the community was huge. So there seemed to be a lot more bullshit and drama on a daily basis, unlike a smaller place like here. I’m not a deep person and I just like fucking around, but I really don’t like putting up with daily trollery and other assorted ass mastering. For the most part, this place is devoid of that, and what does show up is quickly dealt with.
But as I say, the most important part of Fluther, for me, is the lack of limits to what we can bring up and discuss.

We may have had a zombie section on AB, but I never saw the subject being discussed to the lengths and depths that is has here, so that’s an automatic win for me.

There’s some less positive things I could say, but as they are outweighed by the good, for once, I won’t be a pessimist. XD

The voices told me to.

A lot of us migrated from other sites that either shut down or became crappy. I came when a website called AiROW shut down and many of the friends I had made came here. AiROW is back now under the name Jyver and I went back, but I have come to love Fluther and so have stayed here as well.

@KateTheGreat Lucky. My voices always just tell me to drink paint.

So I’m not the only one then, good.

I found fluther during a pretty random google search- I don’t remember the exact chain. My first Q was a pretty wangsty love problems question which is now my old shame. I kept this account rather than creating another one out of stubbornness and perversity, I think. Since then, I’ve tried to be as sensible as possible.

After Wis.dm was killed a couple of members created splinter Ning sites that I joined but they were really reflections of their creators and I stopped going and started just getting a lot of things done with all the time I had without the internet.. like life. Since my hypertension didn’t go away after ditching Q&A I thought, what the hell, I’ll try to find some place to go.
Right as Wis was crashing I got an account here but left it and forgot about it. It seemed anal and uppity and if I remember correctly I don’t think there was a “social” side here then.

@woodcutter: The uppitiness has tapered off, I think or else I gloss over it more. So funny that you felt that too.

@Neizvestnaya I know! It was anarchy over there and we come over here and are told we have to obey rules? The nerve! I wonder if the Wis refugee problem prompted some changes here to lighten things up some. See what happens when there is a porous border? Aliens, all of us.

The implosion of Answerbag a couple of years ago.

Similar to Dog, it was the iPhone App. that got me curious.

And then I realized that there was a noticeable absence of txtspk writing combined with consistent moderation and felt at home.

Augustlan’s my mom, so I’m kind of obligated to be here… kidding!

But yeah, I found out about it through her and I’ve just kind of stuck around. I’m not on a whole ton, but I do enjoy it here.

I asked a question on Google and found myself on this site. Seemed interesting and I signed up immediately. I’ve never tried another site, so I have nothing with which to compare it.

I googled for information on shin splints and noticed a post from here. I clicked the link, read the question and answers and was intrigued enough to join.

Google brought me here. ;)
I don’t even remember what I was searching…

Answerbag refugee. I like the moderation here.

@Joker94 told me about it, so I took up his advice one night and went on it. He was completely correct, so I made an account. Here’s looking at you, @Joker94.

Another AB escapee. I believe that I was among the oldest still-active members there at just under six years. I didn’t like the changes there, and got my first PB for voicing my opinion about them. It’s not my fault that the new format was coded by drunken monkeys and designed by the marketing department!

I like the laid back atmosphere here, and the way that the threads are conversational; a mix of answers and comments. That, and the fact that the mods here don’t throw hissy fits like the overlords at the new and fuck-proved AB.

@jerv You seriously got boxed for voicing an opinion on the new design? I said some nasty shit myself about it, and nothing happened to me, unless it flew under the radar…if not, you musta been a mean devil. XD :p

Oddly enough, I found it through the Fluid App a few years ago, where the developer has a screenshot of it with Fluther right there. Interested, wandered in, started posting, etc.

That was close to 3 years ago, so I guess I’ve been here a little while.

I found it by mistake. I liked it from the start because people started to correct me when i was wrong. It encouraged me to improve my English skills. Not to mention that I found different types of people here while on other Q & A sites you just hear the same reply in different words. Oh.. I forgot to say this is my first site on QnA I stick too. I knew about Yahoo for a few years but I never bothered to ask anything there or to reply to a question.
Oh and the site is designed nice and it’s not with too many things to bother you while navigating.
Bunch of other reasons I can’t remember now.

@ddude1116 No prob, bob.

I fled WikiAnswers several years ago because of all the floating garbage and tried Askville, Amazon’s site. At the time, some people were fleeing that site to come here, and they posted a link. I soon saw how unpleasant it was there, so after a month I left and have been on Fluther ever since.

@woodcutter, @Neizvestnaya, you mean we’re not uppity any more??

Same as @Joker94, @AshLeigh, @Haleth, @Sunny2. @Hibernate. Plus, I am at a place in my life where I want to have meaningful chats with all kinds of people – people who see things as I do and also those who look out at life from very different eyes.

@Jeruba Well, a little but it’s acceptable.If that makes any sense.

@Symbeline Yep. Lex took a comment directed at “whoever thought this was a good idea” and involving sodomy and baseball bats was a personal threat.

I can’t even remember anymore. It was late, I was bored. Fluther was able to cure the latter, so I stayed.

@Kardamom. I love your answer. It sounds just like us, either as we are or as we like to imagine ourselves to be.

I was browsing another site (maybe Threadless.com?), and stumbled across a link with the title “Better Than the Name Suggests”, which led to this interview. It sounded intriguing, so I popped over here to take a look. Been hooked ever since.

A former Jelly told me about the site. He was smitten with it, and I began to lurk. Then a particular question to which I felt I could provide solid input provided the impetus for me to actually join and participate. It’s become far more addictive than I could have predicted.

I found it by accident while looking for a solution to phone spam. The answers were so good, I lurked for a while. I finally jumped into the tide pool and have been around here ever since.

Participation is inversely proportional to work load.

Fate and a strong undertow.

Morgan Freeman.

I came here during the Great Wis.dm Migration and the resulting civil wars that occurred.

I was an AIROW refugee. We still had a Facebook group, but that’s hardly the same. Then one of us found this place and put the word out, and now we’re here.
It’ll be interesting to see how AIROW’s resurrection will change things – both for us and for the new site.

@smilingheart1 good luck with that ^^

I caught a mouse in my living room and did a google search on how far away I would need to release him to stop him finding his way back in. I stayed because it looked like a nicer version of aardvark with adorable jellyfish graphics.

@ActiusLuna : That is the cutest reason for being here that I’ve heard yet!
Welcome to Fluther!

@CWOTUS Answerbag or Wis.dm refugee?

@ActiusLuna: MIlo here; I am the King of the Jungle resident cat here. Next time simply ask me. (5 miles, to be safe.) See

I forgot to wear my Phi Beta Kappa key.