Re: Did you have prior forum experience?
 

oh yeah, VWvortex.com and the old ESPN fantasy league forums as well (not anymore on the espn stuff though)

Re: Did you have prior forum experience?
 

CS was my first back in '06... pretty much stick to the cigar forums. :ss

Re: Did you have prior forum experience?
 

I voted no, but I have lurked at a yahoo message board (harnesslist) for years. Never posted though. Other than that, I'm an active member of cigar boards only. Have joined another board or two, but for informational purposes only.

Re: Did you have prior forum experience?
 

Been a member on forums for over 10 years, mostly computer related. Never posted much until CS.

Re: Did you have prior forum experience?
 

I used the Winston smiley. :D

Re: Did you have prior forum experience?
 

I have been a member of a hockey related forum since the mid 90s.

Re: Did you have prior forum experience?
 

various wine forums for 10+ yrs

Re: Did you have prior forum experience?
 

Yes, but no cigar forums.

Re: Did you have prior forum experience?
 

several, and somehow I managed to get banned on most of them :r

Re: Did you have prior forum experience?
 

I have been on several forums for many many years... some are gone, but some are still there. The ones that are there I joined in around 2005ish maybe 2004... that was when I started to get into the whole forum thing... :D

Re: Did you have prior forum experience?
 

I was on a west coast fishing forum since the mid/late 90s. They now refer to those times as the "Jerry Springer" years, it was wild. There have been many, many forums/message boards since.

Re: Did you have prior forum experience?
 

Club Stogie was the first board that I joined. CS and CA are the only forums that I contribute to.

Re: Did you have prior forum experience?
 

Other fishing boards only before I decided to look for a cigar board and I found CS and then CA....

Re: Did you have prior forum experience?
 

I have a crap ton of forums experience. I have been on any # of mustang sites for the past 5 years.

moddedmustangs.com site admin
bluemustangsociety.com admin
moddedautos.com site moderator
badmustangsclub.com
unitedstangs.com

cigarasylum.com
clubstogie.com

Re: Did you have prior forum experience?
 

Very interesting - didn't know at all what to expect with this poll.

Looks like between 3/4 and 4/5 of the members on CA were forum junkies or at least forum participants before joining CS or CA.

I wonder how many cigar lovers are out there with a great deal of cigar knowledge/insight but don't "get" the whole forum culture, and I wonder how we could reach those individuals or make our community more accessible to them.

Re: Did you have prior forum experience?
 

Well, not everybody can (or wants to) get into the right internet state of mind, if you follow me. There are a lot of folks who feel that interacting with others online is a poor substitute for actual human contact.

I think what CA has going for it is WoM (Word of Mouth). If we all talk it up with our "live" smoking buddies, we can bring more people into the fold. I refer people to the reviews all the time.

As for me, I never participated in a forum before CS. I only logged on to thank you all for what you do for the troops. Ya got me hooked. Since then I joined another couple of forums for other hobbies of mine, but this one seems to be special. I'm the most comfortable here.

Re: Did you have prior forum experience?
 

Yeah, glocktalk for a couple of years.