[quote=Jster]
 I used to frequent a site and was extremely into the community, made some great friends. Went back like a year ago and damn it was weird. I had outgrown the site. Went back just now, and it seems like a ghost town. Spam doesn't do that. We're all vaguely intelligent and can handle intelligent discourse. There can be definitive conversations had. It's a nice community even if we "hate" each other.
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I had a similar thing with the forum that I used to be on all the time before finding this one. The Spam section of that site was where I fucked around the most, and that was actually where I did my first play by post roleplay (and other people participating in it were the ones who linked me to RPG). It was good times for a couple years, then lots of people disappeared and it kinda died. I tried going back a couple times, but the magic just wasn't there anymore.

Spam is remarkably resilient though, so that's nice. It has shit periods, but it doesn't really die.