Who do you remember from another site who is not a Mugger?
Any type of site, not necessarily Q&A. And since we won't know who you're talking about there's little point in naming them. But who do you recall? Why? What was it about them that made them memorable?
they just closed without warning, about a month before ask.com closed.. i know that Ask,com gave its members warning but Feffer from sodahead gave us 0.. a lot of former sodaheaders are still bitter about it, when you go to sodahead's ugly fraternal twin- site called Amirite... i see posts about all the time (its been 2 years now)
This post was edited by Skunky Stinkerson at March 15, 2017 8:50 PM MDT
I tried it as soon as Sodahead closed down and quickly left. I saw way too much personal drama. There were a lot of old grudges people were still embroiled in. It is probably a calmer place now, but I like it here. I think there is a great mix of humor with the politics and more serious topics. I like the variety of people here too, all seemingly coming from many different sites. Amirite is almost all former Sodaheads.
What surprised me about aM was the age of the average user. There are almost no teen questions about school, dating, crushes and pregnancy but we seem to have all the other age groups covered. Nor do I think I'm the oldest person on site which is a bonus for me. Mind yoiu, I'm close. It's hard keeping up with all you kids.
We are really a melting pot here and I never feel like I am talking to anyone too young or too old. It never ceases to amaze me how people of all walks of life can find so many things to share with each other.
I spend as much time at Amirite as here. It seems to be a bunch of young people (anything under 40) trying hard to be nice to each other. It is the only place where the mother superior has told me I should give upvotes to people who comment on threads I started. (You may have noticed that I was not previously into that habit.) If they have any relation to Sodaheads, they don't talk about it.
There will be two handfuls of formerly friends. A few I'm still in contact with. It will be various reasons, from love to best friends online. There will be lot of history behind them and their relationship to me.
I find that it's easier to retain contact while we're bumping into each other on line rather than establishing email links. I keep forgetting to write and, to be honest, there's so little happening in my life that I don't have much to write about.
It is harder by email than staying part of same community. Some will know they aren't great at keeping contact this way and let you know. Lost some Greta friends that way. Others suddenly drop out after longer time because they feel we had nothing to share any longer not being part of same community. It's been hurtful on one occasion. Finally the love relations. Hmm. Contact ended out of variousness reasons too. One turned into a harassing stalker for a period.
I also remember Time Machine Guy from EP who only asked questions about traveling back to the 70s just to have sex with Agnatha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. I'm not quite sure why he needed to travel back in time for that. All he needs to do is hit them up on Facebook but I have a feeling they're just not interested.
I remember a few from Ask.com and quite a few from blurtit. The best ones I know have come here and stayed here! Plus all the new people I've talked to here. Quite content with that. The rest? Oh well, to each their own.
I was surprised at those who came here, tried it out, then went back to Blurtit. There's nothing there any more but, for some, it probably still feels like home.
Skunky Stinkerson 