Hehehe, I also wanted to know, and somehow I'm not surprised at all Narf, it feels just like you
As for me, well it's just me.
I like respectfull discussions and exchanges of ideas, but I'm also very carefull of my ironic side since I know first-hand it can degenerate very easily to misunderstandings in an online setting (thus, I use smileys a lot

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I can be very shy and delayed posting in this forum for years, yet when the dam breaks loose I never stop talking
(I single-handedly have 23.5% of the SE5 Beta testers forum, and at some point I peaked at 30%

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