If you joined Fluther in the past few years, would you mind sharing how you found the site?

I only ask because several years ago, Google changed an algorithm it used to filter out content farms from search results, and whatever the algorithm became, it filtered this site out as well. Original discussion here. As far as I know, this hasn’t changed, which means our site won’t show up on Google searches. (Does anyone know differently? If so, please read this question as: “How did we escape the oppressive thumb of the content farm algorithm?” ;)

But we have had many users join the site since the content farm issue. (Yay!) I’m just curious: how did you find the site?

I joined precisely because I happened upon the site when I was searching something (though I can’t remember what I was searching anymore). It was the first Q&A site I’d ever really heard of.

Did you find it on a random web search? (If so, was it through Google or another search engine?) Did you hear about it through word of mouth? (If so, where? Another site? A friend?) Were you specifically looking for site like this? (If so, how did you go about finding it?) Or anything else I haven’t thought of.

Would you mind sharing your Fluther origin story?

(Feel free to share your origin story even if you’re pre-content-farm-algorithm-debacle! I’m just especially curious about how people found the site after that point.)