I'm new but I'm going to talk about why I joined. If that's not allowed, well whatever because I'm going to say it anyway.
I joined because you guys are local (well, localish. I'm in West Michigan). You're real people. I could meet some of you some day, and I would like to. Many of you are friends in real life and go *way* back with lot of history yet you accepted me, a baby bat stranger, and didn't run me off the forum. You guys have been welcoming on this semi-dead site, and it's really exciting to see some necromancy happen.
(Also you guys know where all the cool shit is and can give better info than the sterile Facebook hype machine)