I'll just start it off by saying thank you to all the regular members on here for making me feel so welcome!
Thanks (The skmb appreciation thread)
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And thank you to the moderators who keep us all in line.
And Jordan who fixes our toys when they break.
And Jordan who fixes our toys when they break.
Yea too the mods as well i was going to put that. i love you guys
Thanks to Stephen King for giving us this wonderful playground. It is truly my home away from home. My family , my Ka-Tet who offer friendship, caring, and smiles. To our Motherator and our volunteer mods who give so much of their free time to make it a safe place to play. Jordan who keeps the gremlins at bay, and Brian, our pixel guy. What a wonderful place !
This has always been a unique place and has kept me engaged for years now. Thank you all for making me laugh, think, cry, vent, and letting me put my foot in my mouth and helping me pull it back out again. I have learned so much from this community.
Like right now...! Say sorry for the Ewan comment over in the Games thread... or, a goat 'gets it'.
Er... 
Not 'that' kind of it just clarifying....
Not 'that' kind of it just clarifying....
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Thankee big-big to all of you for everything, for helping me keep my sanity when I was sure I was going to lose it, for helping me to remember to breath when things were bad, for making me laugh when I might have just wanted to crawl back in bed and cry, for being there when I needed you all, for the hugs, for being the 'light' in my life, for putting up with my twisted sense of humor, for not attacking my kitty avatar (don't even THINK about it!!!! I will lay a curse upon you worse than what was in Thinner!!!). I don't know what I would do if this place and you all weren't here! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! SKMB is the BESTEST!!!!
Dammit, I've been trying to be all tough guy/girl... stop that now, runny mascara is so... ugh.
Thank-you ,you guys are here through thick and thin. I have had the pleasure of getting to know some really special members here. When i joined oh my, well posting was interesting. No knowledge of computers. But was welcomed with open arms. Thank-you all for who you are. When my eye was in Question,it was this site that let me see things in a different light.King has been my one constant in life.
Post a selfie! I wanna see the racoon look!!
Those 'open arms' are made for hugging! ((((Linda))))
Nice try (lol) but too late, I've already mopped up.Post a selfie! I wanna see the racoon look!!
I don't really understand what happened to me when I found the SKMB, but whatever it was it was good. I guess it's one of "those" things. I know something like it has never quite happened to me before, though. I'd say I just got lucky and found a site likely unlike anywhere else on the web, except that would demand coincidence, and since I don't believe in that the mystery remains. I'll submit that the answer's simple enough: Stephen King was sufficiently successful and popular for it to make sense to create a place where his fans could share their enthusiastic energies, and smart enough to create one that had the best chance of lasting and being a positive influence on the world of his fans; and, as a fan of fan sites and a fan of sK I was bound to find it.
But that answer doesn't cover it. Why the attachment, the bond? Why does the SKMB matter to me this much? I have to assume that despite certain social disadvantages of cyber community there come unique advantages. Otherwise how could I have made friends with so many people I've never met or even talked to? Most of whom I've never even seen a photo of?
But still an insufficient answer. What differences are there between this message board and any others I've found which can account for my need for it? Well, there are the Mods, whose duties involve the switching of many hats, especially in the case of the Main Mod, and all said duties perhaps no one other than they will ever really know. They regulate civility and all other behavior parameters at the SKMB. Without a doubt their presence establishes a fundamental feeling of security, of comfort.
When I add up the speculative answers to the above questions the sum still doesn't equal the total. I'm missing something - something essential. Could it be as simple an answer as Love? Whatever it is is kind of invisible, spiritual. We know it's not just all the things I've already mentioned; I've ruled them out, as singly or collectively what makes the SKMB what it is. Sherlock Holmes said, when you've eliminated all else, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Then the truth must be that the SKMB has Love. A lot of it if I'm found within it's bounds. And, thank God, I am.
But that answer doesn't cover it. Why the attachment, the bond? Why does the SKMB matter to me this much? I have to assume that despite certain social disadvantages of cyber community there come unique advantages. Otherwise how could I have made friends with so many people I've never met or even talked to? Most of whom I've never even seen a photo of?
But still an insufficient answer. What differences are there between this message board and any others I've found which can account for my need for it? Well, there are the Mods, whose duties involve the switching of many hats, especially in the case of the Main Mod, and all said duties perhaps no one other than they will ever really know. They regulate civility and all other behavior parameters at the SKMB. Without a doubt their presence establishes a fundamental feeling of security, of comfort.
When I add up the speculative answers to the above questions the sum still doesn't equal the total. I'm missing something - something essential. Could it be as simple an answer as Love? Whatever it is is kind of invisible, spiritual. We know it's not just all the things I've already mentioned; I've ruled them out, as singly or collectively what makes the SKMB what it is. Sherlock Holmes said, when you've eliminated all else, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Then the truth must be that the SKMB has Love. A lot of it if I'm found within it's bounds. And, thank God, I am.
Aww Jeez, Frank...I don't really understand what happened to me when I found the SKMB, but whatever it was it was good. I guess it's one of "those" things. I know something like it has never quite happened to me before, though. I'd say I just got lucky and found a site likely unlike anywhere else on the web, except that would demand coincidence, and since I don't believe in that the mystery remains. I'll submit that the answer's simple enough: Stephen King was sufficiently successful and popular for it to make sense to create a place where his fans could share their enthusiastic energies, and smart enough to create one that had the best chance of lasting and being a positive influence on the world of his fans; and, as a fan of fan sites and a fan of sK I was bound to find it.
But that answer doesn't cover it. Why the attachment, the bond? Why does the SKMB matter to me this much? I have to assume that despite certain social disadvantages of cyber community there come unique advantages. Otherwise how could I have made friends with so many people I've never met or even talked to? Most of whom I've never even seen a photo of?
But still an insufficient answer. What differences are there between this message board and any others I've found which can account for my need for it? Well, there are the Mods, whose duties involve the switching of many hats, especially in the case of the Main Mod, and all said duties perhaps no one other than they will ever really know. They regulate civility and all other behavior parameters at the SKMB. Without a doubt their presence establishes a fundamental feeling of security, of comfort.
When I add up the speculative answers to the above questions the sum still doesn't equal the total. I'm missing something - something essential. Could it be as simple an answer as Love? Whatever it is is kind of invisible, spiritual. We know it's not just all the things I've already mentioned; I've ruled them out, as singly or collectively what makes the SKMB what it is. Sherlock Holmes said, when you've eliminated all else, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Then the truth must be that the SKMB has Love. A lot of it if I'm found within it's bounds. And, thank God, I am.
(@KRF... no selfie.)
We love you too! Great to see the smiley face avatar angel back in place! That roadrunner was really messing me up!I love this place, it's my other home...
Hey hey hey -- let's leave the goats out of this!Like right now...! Say sorry for the Ewan comment over in the Games thread... or, a goat 'gets it'.