How many boards before finding this one?

HopelessMagic

HopelessMagic on VMK
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Just curious how many of you joined and tried out other VMK boards before coming to this one. I joined a bunch. I think 5 others to be exact. I posted and tried to fit in but for some reason, it never quite felt right. People were immature or rude or snoody or I just didn't like the board altogether. This one makes me feel at ease and I've been meeting some wonderful people here.

I honestly can't figure out what makes those boards so horrible and this one so great. I know most of you belong to other boards so it can't just be the people alone. Or is it? Are there more adults here than on other boards or just a better reputation is kept?
 
Two others. The *only* thing I don't like about DIS is we don't have a front new page like sites all about VMK do. xD
 
This is the first and only VMK board I have registered with. I browsed other VMK boards and tried to determine which one I would most like to register with and I picked this one. I haven't regretted it.
 
This was my first board, then the VMK kingdoms, and disneytriva. After I found out there is very little help on the others by others I came back here.
 

I had found four before this one. I found this one over a year ago, and I was instantly attatched. :)
 
I was registered at VMK Guide first, but that got boring so I found VMKForums. After being there for a couple of months I needed some credits, so I joined VMKingdom. That same day I found a website that said what site affiliation certain words in VMK characters signatures are, and since I'd seen 'dis' everywhere and I'd actually heard of it before, I decided to try the DISboards. Now, I rarely go anywhere else; maybe once a week or so I check VMKForums, but I never go to VMK Guide or VMKingdom anymore.
 
This is the first one I joined then I went on Micechat, VMKMagic and I am registred on VMK fanatics but they dont want me to post on the trade topics so I dont post there .. Now the only other one I go on is VMKMgagic mostly because of the trade posts..

EDIT : The first english/american board I joined was talkdisney.com in 2002 then I left because I had no time :rolleyes:
 
Well, I actually stumbled upon this as a member of the DIS before VMK
existed. ;)
 
I was a Diser long before VMK ever existed :) I've peeked at the other boards but for VMK info, this is the one I stick to.
 
Same here, Briar. I was a member of Disboards LONG before vmk opened. I still consider this forum my home. :)
 
I too was a DISer before VMK opened. I joined the DIS because I needed advice on where to stay for my summer 2005 trip: Wilderness Lodge or Animal Kingdom Lodge.

Read about VMK here first, tried to play, but my computer would never let me until the start of November. Once it worked, I just added this section of the DIS to my places to visit. Before that, I was always at the WDW Resort section, the Theme Park section, and the Restaurant section. Finally joined the fan site earlier this year mostly for trading purposes. This lovely site is still my homebase, though. :wizard:
 
I read two boards on a daily basis - Dis (of course) and Micechat. I joined a third board so that I could pass on some information about the above two boards to a friend in VMK who managed to tell me that she was on that site without getting us both banned. I think I also joined one other way back when...I can't remember the name of it but I remember stumbling across the link to it when i was trying to clean up my computer.

I find that DIS is by far the most active board with more posts and a bigger variety of stuff. More productive and fun stuff happens here than at some of the other sites and there seems to be more members here that are adults or young adults. There seems to be fewer posts that are endless rants about how horrible vmk is. (These rants are my biggest pet peeve - if it's horrible just don't play it! Nobody is making you play it! Ranting and raving about it isn't going to change it.)

I have made lots of great friends on the DIS and on Mice! So I'll just take this opportunity to thank all of you Dizzy and Cheesy people for making VMK fun!
 
I was on VMK Forums for a little bit but didn't really like it there. Actually, I am a long time member of LaughingPlace.com and that's where I first heard about VMK. Unfortunately nobody there really plays VMK for whatever reason...so after a few lonely weeks of looking for LP'ers on VMK, I happened to meet up with some DIS folks who were fun and interesting to talk to. I was encouraged to join the boards (back before that sort of thing would get you into trouble) and have been a happy DIS'er ever since! VMK would be way less fun without you guys. :dance3:
 
Diz, that is too strange :rotfl2: I am a long time member of LaughingPlace and that is also where I found out about VMK. I can't for the life of me figure out why they have not latched onto VMK like we have. Do they have real lives, or what :rotfl2:

The only people I still have as friends from LaughingPlace are disneyfanlv (love you girl) Jnemo and Jennibara. Sorry if the spelling is wrong, don't have friends list on me now. Anyway, great to see another friend from LaughingPlace :thumbsup2
 
I joined this one and a couple others when I first started VMK. Not really sure what sparked my decision to start posting here, or why I didn't post other places. :confused3

It's actually gotten to where I post here more than I do at this other (unrelated) forum I've gone to over three years and their rules are a lot more relaxed. :confused3
 
Chedstro said:
Diz, that is too strange :rotfl2: I am a long time member of LaughingPlace and that is also where I found out about VMK. I can't for the life of me figure out why they have not latched onto VMK like we have. Do they have real lives, or what :rotfl2:

The only people I still have as friends from LaughingPlace are disneyfanlv (love you girl) Jnemo and Jennibara. Sorry if the spelling is wrong, don't have friends list on me now. Anyway, great to see another friend from LaughingPlace :thumbsup2

Yeah, you know as big of a community as LaughingPlace is, it's really strange that there are virtually (no pun intended) no VMKers to be found. Meh, lives are so overrated. ;)

I have Jennibara on my list too! Unfortunately I don't think I've even seen her around since like, the end of beta. But we're probably just never on at the same time.
 
I've been a member of DIS for...oh geez..off and on I would say close to 5 years now I think. I've changed usernames, thus the low post count, and I've been away from the boards for a year or so. Then I found out through a friend that DIS had a VMK board so I decided what better time to suddenly show up again.

I used to frequent the Community Board a lot, I think I was a Swan/Dolphin cheerleader at one time, been to a DIS meet or two. Fun, fun times.

Oh, and I did check out 2 other forums that were VMK-related, but I like the DIS so that's where my loyalty is. :goodvibes
 
I was on another forum before this one. I had started a thread about looking for other adults playing vmk and Mal kindly invited me to come here and check things out! I've never left. :goodvibes
 
I have been a LONG time lurker of the DIS for a long time now a couple years actually. But a member since 2005. I found it through planning some Disney vacations. I started to notice these icons in people's signatures of animated little people characters, I thought nothing of it.

After I returned home from our WDW vacation and after receiving a card with a code on it at WDW, I thought I would try out the website and it brought me to VMK lol. Then I wanted to know more about VMK and realizing the icons I saw in some sigs on the DIS were of this, I searched the DIS. I then found a thread on another board of it and not long after that, a board became dedicated to VMK. I never posted on it though, just read it. After a little while I started posting on the VMK board.
 
Well I have a long story for you so you might want to pull up a seat if you aren't already sitting in one. My mom joined the dis in 2000, looking for trip reports to decide where to go and what we should eat. She found it here, and has been using the Dis for all kinds of stuff since. The way I ended up on the VMK/Dis Bandwagon was by noticing it one day when I walked through the room. She told me she had known about it for a while, but never told me!! After temper tantrum subsided, I made my own account and have been Dis'in it up since then.
 





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