When I first signed up here it used to be called Lost Cherry, and the age limit was lower than it is today, in fact that's a good job because back then I was younger than I am now, and wouldn't have been allowed in, in fact when they did raise the age I was only a few weeks over the limit, and only just avoided being culled.
I had mixed feelings about that, because at the time some of my friends on here did end up being deleted because of their age, and it made me about the youngest person on the site.
However, people were kind to me, and I stuck around, for a while...
I had quite an eventful few months here last time, I went from zero to one hundred miles an hour and found myself as the first guy in the top ten, and to have my name in red.
I'm still kind of proud of that, I like to think it tore down a barrier here, and told guys they could make it around here (at the time people were seriously starting to question if a guy could get a decent rating).
Unfortunately then it started to go wrong a little.
I won't go into any details, because frankly it's nobodies business, but my offline life fell apart, and things started going a little weird around here.
The first thing that happened was someone put in a stupid complaint against me, and my account got deleted because someone acted on it to fast, and then my salute pic, which had been on this site (I had one before Cherry Tap introduced the feature) started appearing on other sites, and being used to try and make fake accounts seem legit!
I suspect, based on evidence collected at the time, that the same person who had put in the bogus complaint against me had lifted the pic, and was behind the fake accounts, it seems the plan was to drive me offline, and then to adopt my personality.
Some people need to get a life (and preferably not a borrowed one).
Anyway, I got a message, via a friend, from Mike ('babyjesus') to come back and sign up again, and I'd be bumped up a few levels, but yeah... you can imagine that with what was happening offline, and what was happening online, I really wasn't in the mood to come back.
Anyway, that was all a long, long time ago now, and finally yesterday, less than 24 hours ago, I decided to give this old site another chance.
I mean it was a lot of fun, until the end, and I had a lot of very good friends here, so why shouldn't it be fun again?
I've slipped back, over that time, from Mr #9 to Mr #855,805 in the rankings, so I don't know if I'll ever be a red again, but there are more important things.
Anyway, that was back then, I wasn't even 18 when I first signed up, but on May 11th I reach 19, so hopefully this time around, now I'm no longer the youngest, things might run a little smoother.
Who knows?
