Everyone who says HLP has downgraded has somehow failed to realize that it is one of the longest surviving forums that still manages to hold some semblence of intelligent conversations. If you look at any other forum that's over a decade old with over 7000 members, it will either be 1. dead or 2. reduced to immature flaming and spamming amongst a forum population that has no idea what the forum's original purpose was, and most of them won't be above the age of 16.
So while all the old members here are complaining about how HLP is now a flamefest for n00bz, in reality it's doing a helluva lot better then most everything else, who simply can't function anymore, at all.
You weren't here during the peak of the forums in 02-04. You can't understand what a special place this place was during those years. You had to be here. Shrike, Tiara, Maeglamor, Zylonbane, an0n and Stryke 9 at their flaming peak, first rate debaters like Mikhael and Kellan, Venom, Thunder being hilarious in his trying to get the forumites to respect his authority, etc.
Back then, you could actually talk about your personal problems and get a sympathetic and intelligent response, instead of say, "stick it in her pooper" (Copyright held by Nuclear1, all rights reserved). Remember when Shadowolf's fiance almost died from a heart problem? Remember when Setekh's mother died? Forumites actually cared about each other. Or they hated each other in a way that was fun to watch *cough* vadar_1 *cough*.
So yeah, this place is still ok, but it doesn't touch HLP in it's glory days. You had to be there.
BTW, it's two in the afternoon and I still haven't gotten a happy 21 by anyone besides my girlfriend so far, not even from my friends, or the birthday message guy here. I feel so loved.
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