Why do you visit JWFan?

[Jeff 10]

Maybe this is a loaded question, but I think if this site is going to last another decade, it might help if the moderators and members understand why we're all here.

If you have another answer, I'll add it to the poll.

[Thor 7,504]

I don't know.

Perhaps beacuse I'm a Williams nut and like to speak about my favourite composers with fellow nuts? (although I'm surprised so few are into the early things I've posted recently....I thought people would be ALL OVER this stuff in a Williams forum). On the other hand, there are quite a few topics that seem very hot around here that don't interest me very much too, so I guess that goes both ways.

I like self-reflexive topics like this one (or "meta-topics", as I call them).

[Quintus 5,399]

Options 1 & 3.

If film JW was the sole reason for me posting here then I'd have already left a long time ago. The board has grown and developed into much more than just John Williams fandom, as far as I'm concerned. I know others think the same.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

To see if he's died yet!

[Quintus 5,399]

Which reminds me: we need a Celeb RIP sub-forum.

A new thread for each individual death.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Because I've been doing it for so long.

[Faleel 5,349]

Which reminds me: we need a Celeb RIP sub-forum.

Don't split the community!!!! :o

[Quintus 5,399]

Touché indeed!

I've just promoted you to "underestimated". I hope you can forgive my patronising tone.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

I pick Amy Winehouse, oh wait no one cares about her, especially her.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I wish I knew how to quit you...

[Quintus 5,399]

Well. That was gay.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I was talking to JWFAN, not Joe.

Really!

[indy4 155]

All of the above, but a little less of option 2 than the others. Also because it's a source of comfort. (See Blu's "comfort food" poll).

[BLUMENKOHL 1,068]

Maybe this is a loaded question, but I think if this site is going to last another decade, it might help if the moderators and members understand why we're all here.

This place is not going to die. Yes, sometimes the oldies walk away. Sometimes the favorites find something else. Heck sometimes members die and we never see or hear from them again, never knowing what happened.

I've posted at some forums for 15+ years...I've lurked here for a few years before even making an account, and that was 6 years ago. People come...people go. But the people that come and become a part of the community help shape the community in some way, and their personalities become imprinted into the net personality of the forums. The forum culture, if you will, which lives on. And as long as we have that, and money for a server, this place will live on, different but very much the same as it is now.

[stewdog1 50]

I come here for the women.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Option #3 with a dash of #2

[Faleel 5,349]

I come here for the women.

What women?

[Incanus 5,715]

I come here for the women.

What women?

Obviously he meant to say a woman. MissPadmé is the only female poster who still posts regularly.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

He likes her because she's tough. AI didn't scare her off so easily.

[Trent B 337]

Options 3 and 4 for me.

This board is one of the more civilized message boards I visit, I mean other than Starship Modeler. Grant we have had heated arguments but they don't get out of control like on FSM.

[crocodile 8,013]

Mostly 3rd option. I've been JW fan before joining and I'll be one after.

Karol

[Thor 7,504]

I come here for the women.

I like to wear silk stockings and a bra every other Tuesday. Does that count?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

We're gonna need to see some pictures.

[Thor 7,504]

We're gonna need to see some pictures.

The horror, the horror....

[King Mark 3,631]

A bit of all the reply choices

[Jay 37,364]

Options 2, 3, and 4

[stewdog1 50]

I come here for the women.

What women?

Obviously he meant to say a woman. MissPadmé is the only female poster who still posts regularly.

What? Where's Ren?

I come here for the women.

I like to wear silk stockings and a bra every other Tuesday. Does that count?

So tempting...

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Ren has not posted for a long time. She's about to deliver apparently...

[Datameister 2,043]

Two words: Stefan Cosman.

No, but seriously, it's honestly all of the above. I originally joined the site because I had questions about assembling a complete ROTS edit (my first edit ever), but honestly, all the options are equally important to me now.

[Bellosh 3,419]

Because I can't talk about the the statement of the Raiders theme when Indy swings into the minecart anywhere else.

Because I can't talk about the statement of the orca theme when Brody climbs the mast in 'Blown to Bits' anywhere else.

Because I can't talk about....ect ect ect.

[stewdog1 50]

Because I can't talk about the the statement of the Raiders theme when Indy swings into the minecart anywhere else.

Because I can't talk about the statement of the orca theme when Brody climbs the mast in 'Blown to Bits' anywhere else.

Because I can't talk about....ect ect ect.

True dat.

[Taikomochi 1,136]

Because I have never met a person in real life who shares my interest in film scores.

[Bellosh 3,419]

Because I have never met a person in real life who shares my interest in film scores.

This as well.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

My brother is the only one I know.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[Jeff 10]

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Sigh!

[crocodile 8,013]

Yup, you guys are all imaginary.

Karol

[Uni 306]

I thought this was a silly question at first. It's become more interesting the more I think about it. Why the hell do I still come here, ten years later. . . ?

There's something about communities based on certain premeses where people find a level of comfort they just can't get anywhere else. I think part of it, too, is that (to some degree) we're all self-fancied "experts" on this subject. It's a topic that's esoteric, complex, and holds a certain inherent value. In a roomful of random people, we're likely to know more—a lot more—about it than anyone else present. That counts for something. And we want to spend time with others who understand it too. It allows us to be part of a "think tank" on the subject, if you will.

And coming here gives us that extra sense of purpose and identity that being part of a group that includes Steef naturally affords.

What else could there be. . . ?

- Uni

[Quintus 5,399]

Who?

[Faleel 5,349]

What else could there be. . . ?

- Uni

Editing guides.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,531]

Because I have never met a person in real life who shares my interest in film scores.

This as well.

Unfortunately, this is true for me, as well.

You guys are the ONLY people that I know who are as passionate about J.W. as I am.

The only other person who even approaches my adoration of all things J.W. is a close friend of mine, and he only likes J.W. because he listens to J.W. music when he's at my home. Needless to say, he's been educated over the years...