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I remember when you were wanting me thrown out the airlock a couple days ago because I was singing in the Sbox. When I think of family, one song always pops into my head: "Family Time" from Disney's Brother Bear. When I joined here almost 1 year ago, I thought that I would get the same negative response as I did with a gaming forum I was on before where the members treated me like dirt because I was the new guy. Not here. People came and said hello to me and gave me good advice about pants. The way I see it, every new person acts like a freshman in High School. Young, ignorent, unaware of their surroundings, and so on. I was the same way. I wandered the forum, and I learned what bugged people and learned to change my ways to make everyone happier. My great issue was indeed, my addiction to a certain video game series: Halo. @Zeph: I was a little upset on Skype when you said that I earned the title of being the forum's "Halofag", but then I realized that this was true. Looking back, I kind of exploded with topics about Halo. But over the course of the year, I have since dulled down a lot. Also, I am sorry for over-reacting to the truth. This certain person on the forum is indeed pulling this family down. In marching band, we had a special chain that we would bring to every competition. This chain had a link for every person it our marching band. We would pass that chain around, hold it, feel the bonds between the links, remembering the famous saying: "We are only as strong as our weakest link", and pass it on. I have 3 families. My home family, my marching family, and of course you guys, my RRU family. Each of my families work together and helps each other out, but when one member of the family doesn't work well with others, it drags the entire family to a screeching halt. I can't think of anything better to say than that. A family is not just a group of people, it is a group of friends who bond together, stay together, STAND together. Through sun and rain, a family must provide for each other in order to stay strong. I am proud to be a part of this family, and as I look ahead to my 1 year anniversary, I want to thank all of you for taking me in. (If you would like the song "Family Time", PM me. It is a really good song and it fits well into this forum )

I love RRU. I've only been here for nearly six months, but I feel part of the family. At times I still feel like I'm trying to fit in, but I'm sure many people have gone through that insecurity at times. This forum is definitely the best forum I have encountered, particularly in terms of community spirit and friendliness. While on some forums you have the snobby high-ranking members who look down on who they see to be the inferiors (okay, perhaps that's a little exaggerated ), RRU is just brilliant. I too felt pretty epic inside when I had a moderator/Cyrem posting in my topics. And, unlike other forums, you do get to know people here (not necessarily in person, as you said, but their personalities shine through). In short, I too enjoy being on RRU and part of the family. Thank you all for making it a great place to be.

Again, you amaze me, McJobless. And in a good way. This website is a lot like family. We've had some disturbances within the forums in the shape of certain members (Magare/devestater, dellr, fun, etc.) but for most of the ones who weren't banned, the others have learned how RRU runs. Some members have left, but the community has still stayed strong. And I think the whole lot of us have grown over the last few years. We have some of the finest moderators I have seen on a forums website (and I'm not just saying that), and I respect each and every one of them. I have no qualms with the regular members here. Each of them I respect, regardless of what I may have said to them in years past. This site has gained a little and lost a little, and that's what makes it what it is. Regardless of the members who seem to try and ruin this community out of ignorance. Thank you, McJobless, for voicing something I have thought for a long time.

Well for one thing I agree with JBJ about those snobby high ranking members... I think that RRU is one of the more open communities, and I think the reason for that is because it is still growing and is relatively young compared to some places like BZP etcetera...now obviously most of us have made mistakes, since we aren't Borg...(like me allowing my idiot little brother to get a hold of my keyboard while I wasn't looking) Anywho my point is that RRU is a very accepting community, compared to the larger online communities. And that if you do make a mistake they most likely won't throw you into the frying pan or the lava pool in the cavern...unless you end up doing something really stupid that gets you banned...(but then again if you get banned then you obviously aren't mature enough to follow the rules, and get along with the community...)

Up until recently, the majority of my time was spent with the Yugioh community. No, I would not call you a jerk. A lot of people there have the worst attitudes towards anyone who gets anything wrong...those people are jerks. And a lot worse. Ben (yes, I'm naming him - he's earned every bit of vitriol toward himself) is definitely not exceptional in the LEGO Fan community. He's not. In the course of my misadventures with the LNA community, I met quite a few members who behaved like him - who can't handle criticism, who have an opinion of themselves that is ridiculously inflated, and who, even after being brought down towards reality, remain floating high in the sky. Ben is only unusual for this site. Back when I was on Brickipedia, someone with HORRID grammar came to the site, and he would edit, edit, edit. As an administrator, I should have banned him, but I didn't, because I was not the only administrator and was not allowed to do so. He rarely listened and never understood just how much he was hurting all of us, how much he was wasting our time...but we never outright stopped him, because of the people who want everything to be happy-cheery, the people who say "stop fighting!" when you begin to discuss a problem. I hate those people - I do. Long story short, it culminated into the person I most enjoyed talking with on the wiki and the first/second most prolific editor (he and I had a friendly competition going) blowing up at someone else (a person who I still despise, but that's for another day) and getting banned forever. Edit That's not to say that his behavior is in every way incorrect and that he deserves respect or acceptance - the contrary is true. He has to be pushed into understanding and/or leaving, otherwise he'll continue to makes things worse.

Reminds me of a certain movie...