A question for OOT regarding longtime posters

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Hello OOT,

Not everyone is thrilled with the state of the forum right now. One idea that has been kicked around - and one that I happen to think is useful in understanding how things are - is that there aren't as many experienced, excellent posters starting high-content, interesting threads.

Now, I know that there are some very excellent posters in OOT, but I was realizing today that when I envision the forum in my mind, I still think of a lot of posters who have since moved on or fallen off the map. So I wanted to take a moment to encourage everyone to single out some of the folks they would identify as 'old-timers' or long-term posters that they looked up to and learned from.

Yeah these threads are sometimes masturbatory but I have a purpose in mind, and anyway, masturbating is sometimes fun.

I'll start (and I'm omitting mods of this forum and others - I think it is generally known that posters like daryn, El Diablo, Yeti, MEbenhoe, Evan, etc are major contributors). Some of these guys have probably not been thought of as really 'old guard' types before now, but it's freakin 2007.

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