If there had not been an Off Topic...

SagaLore

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I know that many of you signed up here and one time to get some help, but then stuck around because you liked the community. But what if - there had never been an Off Topic. All the categories were strictly business.

If Off Topic is not your favorite and most visited category, which one is?
 

SagaLore

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Originally posted by: Juice Box
Wouldnt it be impossible to be HERE (this thread) without offtopic?

:confused:

Um...

:confused:

It's a paradox. :shocked:

Actually I was thinking "here" as in the entire set of anandtech forums. :p
 

ggnl

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I browsed the forums for quite a while before I discovered OT. I just hardly ever posted.
 

CVSiN

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no the tech boards are way too boring..
OT kills the day pretty good
 

purbeast0

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yes, i would still be here. i started on these forums in the FS/FT forums, then when I worked an internship one summer I actually started coming to the OT forums to kill some time.
 

Megatomic

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Yes, definitely. I didn't post in here for the first few years of my membership. To this day my postcount in here is a small portion of my overall postcount.
 

ggavinmoss

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I came to Anandtech back in ~1998 to drool over the Pentium II-400 (before "settling" on a Celeron-300A). I came back and joined the forums in 2001 primarily for ATOT (I lurked before that). I'd probably lurk in Hot Deals if OT wasn't here.

-geoff
 

nakedfrog

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I'd be in HD and scouring FS/FT, and probably would have branched out more to GH and whatnot.
 

rh71

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I was at HardwareCentral before they had OffTopic. Then they gave us an OT... then took it away. I pretty much left that site after OT was gone.