How did you stumble upon the greatness that IS Fluther?
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December 1st, 2009
What brought you here? How’d you find it in the first place?
For me, somewhat embarrassingly, I was googling if it was okay to smoke weed the same day as donating blood…because I had forgotten and was in a panic. Whatever words I plugged into google, Fluther came up and I was immediately impressed. The blood donation went on as planned. Glory glory hallelujuah!
So, your story?
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My friend @J0E posted a link to the site when wis.dm was shutting down and a few of us are still left.
I found it because it was recommended to me and other lost wis.dmers after our site got shut down. I got hooked.
I googled whether it was okay that I am never hungry in the morning, which led me to @DominicX‘s question.
I liked the look of the place and was impressed, as you were, so I stayed.
Deja vu moment here… I could swear I’ve seen this question and answered it before #_#
One of my chemistry professors mentioned it.
I was watching a video about using fluid and they said this was a great site for SSB’s. I came and lurked for a while and then I was addicted.
My husband noticed it and mentioned it to me. My one year anniversary is in 10 days. I can’t believe I’ve been a Flutherite for that long. I lurve it here.
*I came with the wis.dmers. Glad I came. The decoration is nice here. I like the colors. They’re very pretty.
*Ambien influenced response
I was searching Google for a question I’ve now forgotten and one of the search results was Fluther. I had a question about my ex’s aloe plant right after and since Fluther seemed a billion times smarter and better than Yahoo Answers, I joined and posted it here.
I remember googleing something about marijuana for a research paper at school. I copied and pasted the link and sent it to myself via email. I then got hooked. I’ve learned so much on fluther.
I actually found it as an app on my iTouch. It was cool and now I’m using it on the computer. I actually just found it like seven hours ago.
I was Googling sleep-positions and nightmares because I almost always have them when I sleep on my left side. It turns out, it’s really common, and theres even a sleep study that shows a much greater percent of nightmares on the left-side than on the right-side. Crazy, huh? I love the concept of the collective-conciousness, so I signed up!
@Sonnerr Say goodbye to the life you once knew. :)
@alahivemind Ditto what ^^ she said. :D
I read an article about Fluther on some other cool site. It was titled: Better than the name implies or something like that. I came, I saw, I stayed.
On what would have been my father’s 62nd birthday I found myself with a lot of free time and trying to avoid sinking into temporary depression. So I started ambling about the interwebz with no real direction. I was browsing the apple.com site for no reason and saw Fluther mentioned. (I forget if it was the iphone app or something else). I joined and became hooked. I have made many friends here… and never want to leave. My aniversary is coming up in february… went by fast.
I was invited when wis.dm shut down.
It seems like I read about it in a mag, could it have been in Australian MacWorld???
A post on lifehacker.com brought me here. How I rue the day… Rue, I tell you, rue!
I usually try to keep tabs on new apps which are free and Fluther was one of them.
After using the app for awhile, I deleted it, but stayed. I had realized that using it with Safari rather than the app is so much less frustrating.
I started at Yahoo! Answers and than moved to AskVille of Amazon and now I am also here. It find fluther application much better than all the other.
Fluther Rocks :-)
I typed my question into a search engine and fluther came up.
I was just randomly searching the internet for things that interested me and just happened across it. I haven’t really been around in a little while, but I suppose I’m back for now.
@Jack79 ya thats what happened to me
It’s all a blur.
I’m so serious.
@deni You say the greatness of Fluther. You are having a laugh. This site is very poor. Ask a slightly unusual question and it gets taken off. Pathetic moderating in my opinion. wis.dm was much more fun and you could have a good old argument on there.
@unit I don’t think it is unusual questions that are taken off. It is usually innapropriate, or rude questions that are taken off. I have done quite a few unusual ones and they haven’t been modded
Well, no one has a gun to your head to keep you here.
Those of us who choose to stay here prefer such qualities as being well modded, intelligent and encouraging a sense of community while discouraging flame wars and personal attacks.
If someone prefers the chaos of a free for all, this isn’t the right place.
Why, they even prefer that people write in sentences, try for good grammar and punctuation, and eschew txtspk. Imagine that.
Will agree that text speak is terrible.
Actually, when you said ”Stumble Upon” you were spot on. Couldn’t have been closer to the truth.
I was reading an article about “up and coming sites” that created a community experience.
I went on every site on the list.
This is the only one I stayed on :-)
Why? what was wrong with the other sites
I googled a question and tada! I lurked for a few days to get the feel of the place. Decided I liked it and joined up. Sometimes the modding is a bit tough (I’ve been modded heh heh) yet I’d rather have it a wee bit too tough than to end up looking like Yahoo answers. eek!
My old friend asked fluther’s opinion on a very old argument of ours. I had to defend myself.
I can’t remember that well. All I know is it was a link inside a link inside a link inside a link…etc. I had to work for it. And it was worth it!
An old friend (and my first gf) suggested this site to me.
She knew I was knowledgable, but hadn’t considered the value I would put on the funny.
Was searching a way to bring google wave to the desktop which lead me to Fluid, on the Fluid site there was an example desktop screenshot with web pages that had been changed to desktop apps and i just clicked through some of them and found this.. never did find an answer that really helped for my original query but i did find this so at least some good came out of it.
My friend @Foolaholic showed me the wonder of Fluther two summers ago, but I didn’t join the community until earlier this fall. I had an opinion question I wanted to ask people, and suddenly I remembered that funky little thing he had told me about. Since then I fell in love. :3
I was going through a shitty break-up, was about to lose my mind, and when I went to Google looking for advice, I found Fluther. You all were so helpful, funny, smart; this girl decided to stick around.
I saw a video ranking the top Q&A sites, Fluther was #1 and the site I was a member of was #2. When that site went down I moved to the only site that was ranked higher and yada, yada, yada…I’m here.
I may have been the cause of a very messy migration, but it wouldn’t be the same without us would it?
I was hooked after one word: frizzer.
I guess I don’t understand all the rage about that frizzer question…or maybe I’m just thinking about it too much. It is funny because it is worded so ridiculously and poorly, right?
Pretty much. It is what you make of it.
I was on Askville and got suspended long story and came here to bitch about it. :)
Eventually I came back to stay!
I saw a story on Dateline.
Didn’t Oprah mention it as one of her favorite things?
I googled people who don’t like their food touching and I was directed to @loser question and I have been addicted ever since. and the people here being so nice has helped me stick around also
My ex was ranting about an argument he was having on here, and I made an account to creep.
I got stuck, and he got pissed that my lurve was higher than his after I had been here two weeks, and he had been here 2
I fell in love with the place.
he left.
@erichw1504 , Does Oprah fluther?
One of my students came to me and said, “You have to try this site.” I’d been feeling intellectually unstimulated recently, and decided to try it. Sometimes, the dialogue is not “brilliant”, but it’s usually interesting, and I enjoy the sense of community, even if I’ve never met any of you.
Wasn’t it a candidate for one of the new 7 Wonders of the World?
Like many others, I was googling something and came across it. I’ve been hooked ever since :)
Some fellow refugees from the late Airow (peace be upon it) told me this place was way cool.
My son is a friend from college of Ben and Andrew. I knew they were planning something and started reading the site from the early days. When I kept quoting questions, my daughter-in-law said, “Why don’t you join?’ Many wasted hours and 10k later, here I am still.
I have a confession. I’m oprah. The skanky white girl I appear to be is just a cover up. Its not easy being green (read: oprah).
@deni You’re too happy to be Oprah.
I was napping under an oak tree one lazy afternoon when I was awakened by a large white rabbit, muttering to himself about being late for something very important and consulting an enormous pocket watch. I followed the rabbit down a rather dubious, yet enticing, hole and viola, here I am.
I randomly got onto it one day last year but it was late at night and i forget the site name and everything xD.
I found myself back here a couple days ago and now im a member! x3
@deni if you’re Oprah, where’s my free car?
ITS IN THE MAIL BE PATIENT PLEASE
@deni/Oprah Shipping must be a bitch!
deni/oprah HAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA I WISH people would refer to me as that more often
And your wish is granted! * waves magic wand * Wait… Crap… SOMEBODY BROKE MY WAND!
Oh well. :P
Told you she’s to happy to be Oprah.
@rangerr Yeah… Oprah’s too busy stuffing her face with blue corn chips and cheese dip because she’s depressed about not being retired yet to be typing.
Hey… @rangerr… Have you been borrowing my wand to make cocktails again?!?
@rangerr But last night was Totally Trashed Tuesday… Uh huh!
its wasted wednesday get it straight you doofuses
@deni Messed Up Monday, Trashed Tuesday, Thirsty Thursday, Fucked Up Friday, Shots Saturday. Sunday and Wednesdays are for homework. Ohhhhh. College, I think I need new friends.
@rangerr
That’s similar to what my friends and I call it except we have Tipsy Tuseday, Wasted Wednesday, Smashed Saturday, and Sober Sunday. lol
@DominicX Ours started out as Tipsy Tuesday, until we realized we all got more than tipsy.
I found it trough alltop!
I think you guys are nuts. Oprah seems pretty damn happy to me. And if I were her, I’d probably be really happy, too. :P
My wife had worked with Andrew, and so joined.
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am I the only one who finds it funny that the way at least 2 people found fluther was from googling marijuana…........
lol @seeing_red i think its funny too im glad i wasnt the only one
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