I've been here a couple of months now, but I think I've made my decision: This is probably my favorite internet forum out of all the ones I've used over the years. I'll be honest though: From a technical standpoint (website features, etc) it's not the greatest. But to me, a forum is defined by the people who use it. And there's 2 main reasons why this is probably my favorite forum.

1: Maturity

Sure, it's the internet, and "maturity" isn't really something that exists on it. But compared to other forums I've used, everyone here is a lot more mature. Many gaming-related forums are flooded with "PS4/Xbox/Wii U/PC sucks!" kids. But this forum has a lot fewer than most others I've used. I greatly appreciate how we can have reasonable conversations here.

2: Diversity

I love the diversity of people here! Many forums intentionally cut up their community by region. Or, I go into a game-specific forum (which is great for talking about that particular game, but I haven't really found a good "go-to" forum until now). Here, there's different people from many different countries around the world all commenting together. Maybe that's not a big deal to some, but I like the global representation of everyone here.

So I hope to stay for quite a while! I don't comment too much anymore (I think I made 100 posts in my first 3 or 4 days here!) due to "real-life" but I hope we can get to know each other as time progresses.

Its great when youre not banned for stating your opinion...

Eh, I'd say it's just average. :L

It's my favorite as well. It's not perfect, obviously, but no forum really is.

True dat! Although, I havn't really used any other forum before since all I did was just mostly troll around in Twitter

Yeah. I've only been here about a month but it's been nice, even just to see people with similar interests as me.

Looks like you haven't been in the Escapist forums yet.

Would be nice to not have the site go down... or be able to do basic video formatting.

It's miles ahead of the IGN, YT community scene though.

Truth be told, what keeps this forum from descending into chaos are the moderators who enforce rules. They disband trouble makers and they do an outstanding job of removing alts.. Also, it doesn't hurt that this is a Nintendo stronghold. They help to keep the climate balanced.