The History of AQS, Because the info may soon be gone

OK, i decided to open a topic about the history of AQS for the same reason you ask your grandparents about their families; once some of the older members leave (not all but it's inevitable that some will), a piece of information goes with them. There's probably loads of old stories some of the class of '05 would like to share, including

-the shinobu's lover crisis (even gets mention in FAQ)
-sesshi?
-what life was like that first january for Aquastar, Raretralogit, Kai, O_o, Sydney2K and the rest of the "founding fathers"
-how AQS has changed over the years
-The fact that around 5,000 people signed up in 2005 and only around 2000 since then (by the numbering-scheme)
-The fabled "mascot competition", won by the adorable Role
-The many stories you heard in the bar, hotel or coliseum
-Any other things you may like to say

or they could just keep them to themselves and laugh at the new wave trying to figure it all out > . <

"without knowledge of your 'istory, you are a cabbage wit'in society"- Misty in Roots ^^

Do you mean Senshi? As in the former member? He was a..... character....

I've been here nearly 1 and a half years, and I still feel like a comparative newcomer sometimes... Don't know much of the 'in jokes' here, mostly because I'm not on IRC.

senshi, that's right. he got "disconinued"...

i dunno about senshi... was a lurker at that time...
shibobu_lover... dunno about him/her but all i hear s/he's a moron

for the mascot competition.. that was when reika didn't have much time to spend on the boards as she often did... then athos, launching a fake competition about looking for new mascot...

people took it too seriously and everntually we have TWO, not one...
taht's role and momoyome.

the hotel is dead, the colliseum's had more people in there in the past...

and the bar, thou i frequently go there, still scares me

^that "cirrax and kail" thing will always live on in our history

and shaoron-sama was a... lurker? he needs to post at least 10 times a day to survive, how did he do it? it's all coming out now...

Lulz. This wasn't the first forum at all. Out of the 5 that are mentioned, only 3 of them were actually way way back.

i don't need to post 10 messages a day to surive...

i've gone several days without access to a computer... like the first few days i was in nagoya last year, or when i was out of town for several days.

it's just taht i don't have anything to do hence.. the spamming posting

To the opening poster:

So many things have changed since Version1 of the forums and there are few people who are still here that were back there. If you really want to uncover ¨the history of AQS¨ you should trying making an interview to aquastar himself along with some of the moderators and old school members as well.

You've forgotten our beloved Sush-Y-sama!

Without her AQS would have been scratching their heads over Nihongo.

Not to mention the body count.... Oh yeah! Don't tell her that she's going to kill me ... Again.

*red wolf gets shot on the head*

wasn't me

Wait, that reminds me that someone was doing just that a while back... was it Zap? It might be a good idea if some of the newer folk want to learn something about the history of AQS.

Senshi's the kind of guy that likes to say what's on his mind and to be completely blunt, and not all that polite, about it. He had a falling out with several people here and basically got 'discountinued', as you said.

I never tangled much with him myself, so beyond that, you'll have to ask someone else...

I could say that the forums has improved since it started a long time ago.

All I remember is the fighting coliseum where I always go (Remember Keitaro is an immortal one )

But the old member that I really remember is JUAN!!!! FEAR!!!!

Let's see...

- Senshi: LEGENDARY devil of AQS. He wittily pissed a lot of members here and on the irc channel, so he got banned when Aquastar831 also got dissed. Nevertheless, that didn't stop him 'cause he occasionally uses dynamic IP to sneak back in, drops a few words, then gets kicked out again. Sometimes his flaming is funny (mostly the Pariah ones), other times it's not. He has an accomplice named khell who fabricated the green lamptern legend.
- Mascot Competition: no other than a search for a new female member for the scanlation team due to Reika's past departure. It got started from a joke post of Sox. Of course, now that Reika's back, which I didn't expect to be so soon, the winners of that contest are no longer legitimate.
- Negima! forum: former hangout place of the original members who were Negima! fans. However, due to the GODDAMN FREAKING LONG festival, many of them lost interest and stopped posting/viewing that forum; they still check it when there's exceptional fanservice scene in a new chapter though. Only the hardcore Negimaniacs and newbies go there now. Same go with the LH, Negima! fanclubs, and AIR/Kanon forums.
- Sushi-Y: beloved and worshiped goddess of AQS. Her talent was discovered at the Animesuki forums, and she joined AQS after asuki banned the posting of Negima! translation on their boards. Her usual posting threads are the Negima! manga discussion and Hentai Games; other than those, she only posts in the project area. She has a stalker named RedWolf whose persistence inspired her to draw a few pictures dedicated for him (I'm gonna let RedWolf post the rest of his "legacy").

back in the days i joined both AQS and akatsuki's forums...
i rememebr suhi-y posting her translations there as well...
during that time (2005) i was partially lurking around AQS

then i took a long hiatus from both sites...
around last year... around February i think, i started posting my manga colorings in the boards... which, pretty in pink chibi-chiu got the attention of athos...

but i didn't noticed his PM to me until march...
kano came in and joined as a colorist... and so did I.. by may, the colored work needed to be organized properly hence, with athos' permission, kano started what is now know as the "AQS Colorist Flying Circus"


and for those wondering about my spamming spree...
it only started around august-september of last year... when i started posting outside the negima boards and protected forum.

Let's see.... I joined the forum before this one......

Juan was translating chinese-translated Negima Manga into english.

Then I try helping out by translating a few chapters.

Then Greyghost and since he can translate straight from Japanese to English, I just left the job to him.

Eh, I remember senshi...

Yeah he was rude to some people, but mainly the mods and such...

I heard Shinobu Lover was MUCH MUCH worse...

Don't forget about jopchan's polls now...

As a long time member/contributor, I'm just goin' to recall some of the random things i remember.

- I first found AQS because it was the first English Negima site I could find 2 or 3 years ago (I found a French Negima site prior to AQS and stayed there for 2 months, my French was really bad).
- The Love Hina/Negima section of the original triad sites grew the quickest with many contributors (Kai, AKOL, Chacha, 0_o and myself) creating character bios based on the first 2 volumes of the manga. We so need to update those...
- When the first message board came out, it looked really simple (white and tan colors) with limited message board features. Back then, Juan and Reika were the only girls on the board and many though Eziro-san was a girl too (blame your avi's Eziro-san).
- Back then, I opened the first AQS bar which had a lot of RP fighting before Eziro and I banned it. It also was home to random chit-chat.
- Second board opened up thought to clean the problems of the first one, it didn't last long. I missed being member number 3 on that board
- Third board (this one) is when things started to expand. All topics were started by Kai (the Microsoft of AQS) and was once known as the spam king.
- Once the IRC opened, many of the vets left my bar and moved the chaos to the chan.
- The scanlation team was formed and picked up after Meow Torrents.
- Blue Star Lounge lost the ability to add posts to your postcount due to excessive spammage (which also led to a massive influx of anime cults and a month long lock of my bar)

That's all i can recall that's worth noting

the cults and the bar thing were pretty recent. only about half a year ago - i remember because i am the founder of one of those cults (that hopefully has been purged by now). i think the most famous was the senshi cult.

i also remember the parody thread in the negima forum, which lasted for about a month before a certain lover decided to post them on akamatsu's BBS, which threatened the sanctity of the scanlation team. (so aqua ended up banning parodies).

i thought erizo was a girl for the first half year of my membership with the forums. >___>

Let's see...I joined around 2004, so that's about as far back as any of my info can go. Back then we were on the last forum (which is the 2nd, I think, this being the third).

Senshi- Say what you want about him, nobody has stirred up as much trouble as him. You essentially were one of his cronies, laughing at his pariah jokes, or ignored him. I was happy to be a member of the latter, because there's a difference between "speaking your mind" and insulting people for the sake of it. Good riddance.

Erizo- Also thought he was a girl for awhile. Sorry ^^;

I think someone with better history should write about the foundations of our different projects, such as the scan team or the fansub team. I was in the sub team right about when it began with To Heart 2.

I don't think so. Maybe it was JD?

So everyone thought I was a girl at first, huh... at least I haven't been forgotten like others: ChaosHawk (damn you WOW)

look at my member title it's KING... not queen

I know someone was making interviews to the AQS staff in which they asked about each one of their personal history of AQS.

Some AQS history like this might be interesting on the podcast.

I'll concentrate on the team's early history then... (I know...I'm pretty damn bored on this three-day weekend)

When I first joined back in January 05, the AQS Negima section is an ad-hoc, uncoordinated mass with each chapter given a thread, and which is filled with a mix of discussion and translation. GreyGhost and Juan|nauji headed the translation effort, kiba84 handled one entire chapter (translation, editing, and all) himself, and I think they got about 5-10 chapters scanlated before it became a coordinated effort. I joined and for my first post sent up my scripts for 2 full chapters.

Coordination began to package chapters from 67-81 (I think) and release them all at once with the goal of achieving consistent quality (given that previously all translation and image editing efforts were independent). The forums were organized and Aquastar separated translation coordination from normal discussion. We soon came under a lot of fire for our undetermined date of release and long wait, and some other groups emerged to do what we did (some hastily and low-quality, and some slow and well-done), which caused a whole lot of confusion, with some groups associating all scans, bad or good, to be ours and asking for more. Eventually some members took on the role of public relations just to calm down the miscommunication problems.

I remained with the team after the chapters were released, and we soon incorporated Sushi-Y into the group. We proceeded pretty linearly after that, I left the team by chapter 90-ish, and the rest, as they say, is history.

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Now to answer some other questions...

Senshi - Major forum troll. We have no idea how he survived for at least half a year in this place. To me he's mostly random and I don't see his offensive posts. He eventually pulled Aquastar into a sting, was told to shut up, didn't, and got banned. As many have said, he still appears once in a while to drop another jab or two.

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Shinobu's Lover - This guy can be an article of his own. Please bear with me.

With AQS's popularity on the rise, we began to package our releases with page colorings and one-page rephrasing parodies. We also took notice of a Japanese-style BBS that Ken Akamatsu had on his personal website, separated into Japanese and English sections. Since the prevailing majority of posts are one-shot praises to the newest books and questions for how to get scans or books, we didn't really care.

At some point, a person called Shinobu's Lover emerged and made the following astonishing demand to Akamatsu: "Redraw Book 6 completely, because Nodoka was frozen into a statue where she could have greatly aided Negi and co. with her pactio artifact and made her much cuter and more awesome." (original post is far less intelligently phrased) About two other people joined him, while the majority completely disagreed with either a simple rejection or a long explanation about how futile his effort or how unreasonable his demand is. He took no notice and continued to hammer everyone with the same demand and reason, sometimes citing non-existent polls that a large group of people wanted this revision to take place. Side note: We made our own poll to prove him wrong. Out of around 40 votes, only one was for revision, and that was an accident.

We laughed it off for a while, and a couple of us slammed him down completely (oh, I had a lot of fun). What really pissed us off was that, in later threads, he hosted competitions of some sort in Akamatsu's BBS, and offered to "give away" our coloring and parody works as prizes. Sometimes he just flat out gave them away and called them his work. We knew that there was nothing we could do, so he effectively forced us to stop producing parodies and implement enormous amounts of safeguards on our coloring works. The BBS has since closed due to spam from advertisement bots.

About half a year ago, SL (as we now call him) set up his own "Akamatsu Fan Forum" (Link) to host his own Shinobu/Nodoka fetish. Most of the scarce amounts of members in his forum also lean to his philosophy but on a much smaller degree. Some more moderate members even threatened to leave until he lightens his favoritism streak. Some of our old members (including me) went on his chatterbox to heckle him, while being very astonished (or more scared) that they were all deleted in a matter of hours, showing the amount of time he pours into this. Mystic_Vegetto also found that he had a Geocities site (now closed) that shows a modest amount of Shinobu pictures, his rather embarrassing biography, and a rather shocking photoshop of him putting his hand on the butt of a screaming Shinobu from a Love Hina screencap. His forums have since had higher security against hecklers, but his C-box remains vulnerable.

His other adventures include all-out insulting Negima!? (2nd season) through commenting in posts in well-known anime blog Random Curiosity with the alias Hudson (some of his posts are still there). I don't know what measures were taken against that, but I still see "Hudson" posting recently.

Told ya Shinobu Lover was bad...

Heck, after hearing all of this official stuff, I really wanna meet this guy...

Though I've heard other horror stories about him blasting people who say they don't like Maehara or Miyazaki...

I also heard he was just as bad as Mahora Academy when they used to have a mod or admin that would ban anyone who denounced the KonoSetsu Konoe/Sakurazaki pairing... (Or probably even worse...)

Mahora's gotten a LOT better and they're very likable, but eh, I heard Shinobu Lover's either just as bad as he was back then or even worse...

Heh, I'm actually tempted to check out his forums... (I didn't know they were still up...)

Edit: How lame, he makes you register before you can even view the forums...

I bet he keeps a close eye on who registers so he can ban them if he knows the name from AQS or something...

Ugh, I'd better come up with something random then...

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What is all of this about Shinobu Lover ...? I have said this time and time again - he was an insect, and he deserves to be squashed, along with any memory of him. Any troubles caused by him pale in comparison to that of Senshi. In fact, I am worse than Shinobu Lover, and shao-chan can attest to that.

Senshi was the true force of trouble on the forums during the elder days of its existance, and his name will be forever remembered, yes, in infamy. Shinobu Lover, he was NOTHING, so stop invoking his name when Senshi was the greatest threat to peace on the AQS forums. In fact, some of you had no idea about what Shinobu Lover was known for, besides hearsay (specifically you, Esperman), and yet you mention him always, as if he was some plague upon the community. Senshi was that plague, and Shinobu Lover was a mere germ compared to him.

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Anyway, I might as well describe my own situation in discovering the AQS community. I was a former member of the AnimeSuki forums (under a different username, and that name is long buried in history for me now), and I used to participate mostly in the (then) legendary Negima thread. (Ah, I remember the "old days" of the discussions of temporal mechanics, among other things ...) Back then, I followed Sushi-Y's transcriptions of the manga very closely, and I was around when the "first sketches" of RedWolf's legacy were created.

At one point, I noticed a link to the Aquastar forums (the current one, anyway), and I started to lurk here. This was probably around September 2005 or thereabouts. Of course, I maintained my account on AnimeSuki, prefering that community to AQS. That is, until the "great hacking incident" of December 2005, when AnimeSuki was hit by two consecutive attacks to their forum databases. Everything from the whole of 2005, all posts, threads, even accounts, were deleted (including mine !!), and the community was left in ruins. And the Negima thread, which had reached over 180 pages by then, was reduced to the 35 pages that existed the previous January. All of the time and effort that was placed in the creation of our posts were deleted instantly, and we lost a whole year to this hacking incident !!

Needless to say, many of the AnimeSuki forumgoers decided to migrate to AQS, since many of the faces here were familiar within AnimeSuki (most noteable, in my memory, being Sydney2k and Sushi-Y). And since AnimeSuki was lost, my account with it, I followed everyone here. Of course, I remained a lurker until August of last year, when I finally decided to register to comment in the Zero no Tsukaima thread, to insert my knowledge on runic writing systems to the discussion. (I remember Tmoo's first words to me ... does he even realize what those words were ...? Hmm ...)

Now, I wouldn't have joined AQS if my main forums at the time (BemaniStyle 6.0, now currently at 7.5) didn't have a complete forum wipe at around the same time, destroying my account there as well. My previous account name is all but deleted in the online world, believe it or not ... but that might be a good thing ...

Ah, memories of the days long past, when I had the luxury to participate fairly frequently on forums because I didn't have a game to develop then, as I am forced to do now ... >_>

Memories indeed ...

Eh, I didn't find Senshi to be all that bad...

He only terrorized the mods and such from what I've seen...

I mean, I saw that as long as you had nothing to do with him, he was just another face in the crowd...

I've heard different about Shinobu Lover...

And I personally don't think you as worse Mel, because I respect you...

Shinobu Lover would be lucky if he could get any respect from me...

Eh, I believe you gotta give respect to get it... (And I don't see that trait in Shinobu Lover...)

Eh, I don't see it in Senshi either, but hey, at least he didn't hassle everyone for random reasons...

ah...Good times. the bar still is scary at times.

I'm still new, but Senshi was funny.

Ah, the AQS saga. Good idea, windy, as I know little of the past of AQS, and am only enlightened slightly by the in-jokes and such, and the quote snipes in the IRC thread. Oh, and the FAQs too.

After getting hooked on Negima, I decided to join stoptazmo forums... I got info about AQS from that site, as most of the scanlations were from AQS, with a relative few from other sites (that probably took Sushi-Y-hime's translations). I remember the waits for the Negima manga I had while I was there...

Then I got sick of those forums for many reasons, such as the relatively high number of noobs and Narutards, the focus on speed over quality, and the banning (oversized sig by 1 line!, download limit exceeded due to having a shared connection), although I had some acquaintances there. So I migrated to AQS, and registered, then made my intro thread (which I never returned to). I also made an account at mahora, but I found that I preferred the community here, especially after my first hanging by ARolf.

On to the history of AQS:

Shinobu Lover loves this attention... Danged attention w****.

Senshi... I never saw any of the offensive posts, as I have only read the non-offensive ones archived in a few threads (e.g. the Haruhi thread).

I joined last year, so I know not of the olden times (makes us sound relatively young and old, huh?)

Wow, windy, you know that info? Must be fun lurking in member lists, huh?

The mascot competition... I managed to catch glimpses of it on the front page news of the main site.

The bar is cool. You can ask for anything an everything you want., with the exception of surprise buttsechs, mudkipz, or rule 34. (Dang, too much /b/.)

The chan has been relatively quiet lately, but maybe that's just because of timezone differences.

I missed the last December thread (was there one?)

And don't forget that kaikai's spam king title is disputed by Kota (insane topic starter) or shao (insane replier).

The Negima forum is not very interesting for me right now... When I saw that "Who does not like Negima" thread back when I was a rabid fan, I was like "who doesn't?", until I read those posts and was enlightened. >.< As athos aptly puts, I go there only when something of note happens in the manga.

And SL's chatbox sucks, as it's below a mass of pics which he stole from who knows where.

There was a "Who does not like Negima?" thread here? (I didn't notice unless it wasn't in the Negima board...)

But yeah, apparently there are a lot of haters...

As for Shinobu Lover, he knows we talk about him this much? (Eh, I thought he was pretty much over AQS... I didn't know he still lurked here from time to time to see if his name came up...)

EDIT: XD...

Haha, look at SL's chatbox right now... (It's pretty sad actually...)

Even the people who are still left at his forums are irritated about his "rules"...

There's something about him banning all Negima!? and live action talk in the chat... (Either that or he banned the people who were talking about it...)

Heh, you know how we've got a member named Haruna_Sucks?

I just thought I wonder how well an account named Nodoka_Sucks would be recieved on his board... (I'm actually really tempted to try... But I'm just thinking about creating some random name just to browse around his forums...)

Knowing how much time he spends into his forums, I'll probably be found out and banned in a matter of minutes...

Not to digress too much, but for anyone worried about being a "new" member...the trick is just to make a name for yourself. The IRC chatroom is a great start, but make sure to post often. Just make sure to contribute.

No real point, that guy's a NEET. Too much free time, I tell you. I doubt there's anything substantial on his board. And he probably does look at these boards, unless he was IP banned (although I'd think he'll use proxies, if he is smart enough).

And yes, it wasn't on the Negima board, obviously, or they'd get flamers. Even Sushi-Y-hime admitted to feel like she was translating "Mahora Festival Negima" (hurrah for festival arc. )

Haruna_Sucks hasn't been a-trolling, so I guess it's alright. (Man, I'd love to have the interest you guys have in member lists.)

there was no competition for mascothood between me and role. Argh, so for clarification, no battle, no animosity, no nothing. We're good friends and if you don't know the reason i stepped down, then you're either not in irc or you're kind of dense.

Agreed with momo. There wasn't a competition between them. Too bad there aren't any archives of that news post that I know of...

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I was a lurker on this forum board for nearly a year before I registered, so I can attest to the fact that Senshi really was a troublesome figure. The reason you don't see any of his flaming posts is that the moderators/administrators actually deleted them !!

And if you recall what I said in the thread about the AQS membership numbers thread, nothing is ever deleted automatically - the only time a thread/post/account is deleted is if a mod/admin actually takes the effort to delete them. And if they actually took the necessary effort to delete Senshi's posts, then you know that he was causing trouble for the community. Common logic, no ...?

And need I remind you that Senshi has come again quite recently, creating another account and bypassing the IP block. He was a decent poster for a time, until he started finding trouble again, originating in the IRC chan, to the point where he made a thread to attack someone on IRC. And if it causes anyone to remember, he continued to attack anyone and everyone else he could think of, myself included. He made a mockery of the disclamatory words added to the beginning of all of my posts, using quite foul and low-quality language. Do note that I have not done anything to prompt this action, so I really was just another face to him. This just shows that he did attack anyone and everyone nonwithstanding.

I will not say what was the username of this Senshi incarnation, but if you were around then, and you saw the thread before it was deleted, you will know what I am talking about with validity. This was several months ago, but recent enough to be remembered, I think.

And as a side note, some other person made an account here on AQS, claiming to be Senshi. The moderators seem to have labeled him as a copycat or something of that sort, but I think he was quickly kicked out of the forums as well.

Shinobi Lover ...? Even mentioning him is a waste of time.

I went to SL's board. I don't think I've ever seen an easier target for trolling in my life.

Eh, I wasn't making any offense to Haruna_Sucks...

I was just thinking what would happen if you made it Nodoka_sucks on his forum but was polite and very well written in your posts like Haruna_sucks is on here...

It'll get you banned anyways since it is SL...

Eh, but I registered... (Heh, my account will probably be banned by tomorrow...)

But yeah, the forums weren't so great...

But I got the biggest kick out of reading his rules... (Especially #5... The one about no bashing Miyazaki...)

I'll be surprised if he doesn't spot my account by tomorrow...

I anagramed it, but it's still easy to make out...

Plus, I already posted that Rainyday was an awesome character, so he should spot me soon enough...

But I used given names and never used an ellipse, nor did I space my sentences out like this...

Though I'm surprised some people from AQS have an account there that HASN'T been banned yet...

I noticed jopchan was banned and some others... (I don't know why though...)

As for Senshi, eh, I didn't know he attacked you in IRC...

I've never seen him outright attack anyone who didn't cross his path...

I mean, I've only seen one thread of his get deleted, but his flaming was directed at a person who he usually clashes horns with...

The only time I've heard him chew a person out that never crossed pathes with him was a new guy... (The reason, from what I heard, which got him banned...)

But eh, seeing some of Shinobu Lover's post on his forum, I guess you're right...

Senshi was worse in the flaming way, but eh, Shinobu Lover's just way more stubborn...

Heh, I read all of his posts of him saying the second series was bad, and well, it seems like he doesn't have a close bond with any of his forum buddies... (Not even with his own mods...)

But that was to be expected since this is Shinobu Lover we're talking about...

I would say that there is a difference between the two.

Shinobu Lover is the kind of person who just doesn't get the message. He's in his own world and HATES it when the real world doesn't follow his edicts, so he makes his own board and spams the ones that don't conform. People like him end up like Hitler.

Senshi was just an @$$hole, the kind that got kicks from insulting/annoying people. He knows the world isn't going to conform; he does it just for shits 'n giggles. Or to win a bet. Or for some other stupid reason.

Between the two, I would have to say that SL is more dangerous for the same reason why fanatics are more dangerous. While Senshi's in it for self-interest and amusement, or because he has a serious grudge, SL is a FANATIC who can't get through his head that Miyazaki isn't the best thing around. Fanatics are far more dangerous because they tend to blow up things. Senshi was a problem for AQS, but SL was a problem for the whole Negima! community.

I'm considering making an account on his boards as well, just to flame him. Hmm.... if it weren't for the fact that I was such a nice guy, I would have done it a while ago. Instead, I'm only still considering it.

EDIT: I now HAVE an account on his forums. It's all by proxy though, using a special username I've never used before and will never use again, and one of my many anonymous e-mails. Also, seems like someone violated rule #5 if they put their username as "KoNaDo_Skucs_31>27"

Someone there also has an avatar that is the exact same as Trowa's, although they have a real sig banner.




As for my own history of AQS...

It started when I started to read Negima. I saw it in the back of one of the Gundam SEED books and checked it out at the bookstore. I liked it but didn't want to pay for it and eventually found scans online (from AQS) and began to download them (the earliest still said AAF instead of AQS). I got all the back episodes I could get and then started to wait for the new ones, and when I was bored I would occasionally look at the forums.

I finally made my account in September of 2005, technically making me one of the '05'ers (although I still think I'm a n00b... relatively speaking). I got REALLY busy in school and never did anything with it though (I had just gotten banned from another forum... if you were wondering, banned accounts are not deleted automatically. Mine's still there from 2004).

Finally joined in February of 2006, and took up residence in the Action/Sci-Fi Series area, where I owned the Gundam SEED/Gundam SEED Destiny thread. Managed to steer that thread from 25 pages to 53 pages through the use of uber-long posts that can put most people to shame... mostly tech specs.

Got into the Negima thread in time for the Temporal Mechanics discussion, but I left after it shifted to character questions (which I don't like) and speculation (which I like even less).

After the GSD thread died I moved to the BSL, which is where I've been ever since, making occasional forays into other boards whenever there's a good topic (and so I can get my post count up).

wow... i got mentioned......
i feel special....

33 people hanged... wow that's more than i thought i did.....

the_one, go ahead and create an account and flame...

Like Kroni said, that board is the perfect target for trolling...

He's already got some on his chatbox...

Some guy by the name of Myuh!! Secret and The Pooka Prince or something... (And they even put SL down in style...)

Trust me, his board isn't at all united...

I don't even know why he calls it a community...

His "debate" posts (At least the ones about the second series and the live action...) are set out as if they're screaming "Please, put me down right now since I didn't consider putting much support in my thoughts and I even went to the trouble of setting my posts up to be conflicted with other people's opinions..."

I bet his ban list is bigger than the members that are all joined currently... (I was the sixtieth person to join just to give you a glimpse of his forum's "population"...)

And I'll be the XXX(X)th person to join that group in the next week or so... (Whenever he unjumbles my anagram of a name I created there...)

And I was the 61st... he was celebrating 60 members but was also wondering what happened to the rest of the "old" members. He was on when I registered.

More info about AQS: In the InvisionFree category of "Anime," in is listed as #1848 out of about 7000, with about 500 hits.

And I saw that name. Quite funny, but he didn't get it yet. He replied to your introduction thread.