Why have you joined TS and why are you still with TS?

So to break "21 build threads" curse I decide to bring some, hopefully, more serious topic into discussion.

I am relatively a new member. That means I do not know a lot of people over here. And I bet there are lots of people who feel in the same way. So let's know each other little bit better by answering these two questions.

1. What was the main reason you have joined TS community at first place?

2. What is the current reason of you being a continuous member of TS community?

Let me be the the first one to answer the questions. Since I am new here, reasons are the same for both questions. However, it is not necessarily the case for others.

Firstly and honestly, I could not care less about the hardware and PC build videos from TS. It is not because they are bad, but I rather do not have any particular reason to watch them. I do not see myself building a rig anytime soon since I travel a lot and expect to move near time in the future. So dragging a desktop around seems to be a bit impractical. Neither, my profession involves working with hardware. NorI have joined TS as a PC gamer. Frankly, there are better and bigger communities that provide more indepth and comprehensive review and discussions on PC games. No, the reason I joined TS is more important than that.

If you watched Tek 0034 then you will remember Logan ranting "Everybody shut the hell up about twinkies. Nobody cares. People are dying in Gaza, and you, people, are so obsessed about twinkies!". This is exactly the reason why I have joined TS. Logan and Wendell are kind of persons you can't help, but to have some healthy amount of respect toward them. They have courage of not only seeing current condiition of human society as it is, filled with ignorance, hipocricy and indifference, but also telling it as it is and taking a stand on the side of the opressed (there is actually a really nice quote from Desmond Tutu "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor"). Furthermore, I can see a huge effort by those guys to inform and educate people. There is actually an honest effort to try to make this world a little bit better place, however, little contribution it makes currently. Someone else, including me, would have already given up such an effort as being futile. For most of us, life is just a long popularity contest: trying to fit in society, to get acknowledgement, to impress someone. As a result, we end up speding most of our time doing pointless mindless things that does not make any sense if we think about it purely rationally. There are few people that can see beyond this popularity contest, and, I believe, some of these few people are over here in TS. So I joined TS so that these people can remind me that there are bigger and more serious problems than what my everyday life involves. It makes me pull my head out of the sand (or my ass, whatever you prefer) and confront the reality however unpleasant it is (red pill, anyone?). This is my reason, and what is yours?

P.S. Well another reason why I joined TS is that it features nice science news segments such as weather conditions on Ur Anus (did I type that wrong?).

well, i joined over 3 years ago. someone on counterstrike was talking to me about computers, we eventualy got to discussing the stream processors in gpu's and more not so well known specs of hardware (i guess like cache memory, ram timgings, stuff like that). he told me to check out razetheworld (which turned into TS).

im still here... because i like computers, and i can talk about them here and help people. and when i get bored of that, there are always people asking about coding, or posting about technology news.

1. saw a review by logan, thought i'd check out the site, and I was pretty impressed.

2. the peoplez here r awesome... the shnenanigans are epic.... plus, people here know their shit, and you don't get the fanboys as much as in places like overclockers.net.... smaller and less intimidating as well....

1. What was the main reason you have joined TS community at first place?

I was already a fan of the show and the technology image board I used to post on (still do but not as much) was getting to be the same old content all the time.

2. What is the current reason of you being a continuous member of TS community?

It is a great community.

1. I jointed the TS community because I enjoyed the tek news videos a lot and I enjoy seeing the guys points of view on various topics. I don't really care for the build help videos either but they are of great quality and i'm sure help lots of people out. I've built lots of desktops myself and am in school for electrical engineering, so I figured this would be a good forum to come to and help out some people. I just enjoy offering a hand to people around the forums and hopefully they enjoy my help! I figured this kind of answers part two fo the question too, and it's been nice meeting you all thus far.

I joined by the Apple video and the PC Build video. Those're the first videos I saw. Went back and watched a lot of the old Tek videos. I'm sticking here because I love Logan and Wendell and Maks and Little Viking and Qain. And all of you people.

This is just an amazing place.

I forgot to say this would be something for a forum topic not a blog post.

Used to watch tigerdirect all the time when Logan was there the first time. He left and a few people pointed out his regular channel in the comments (of TD) and from there a few people pointed out Razetheworld.com. By the time I got to Razetheworld the site was a lot less active and full of spam and crap. It started to pick up again and then we got TS. I'm a lurker 95% of the time on my usual sites but on Teksyndicate I post a little more.

A little bird told me about TS. Haha but really, I saw one of logans vids and instantly fell in love

The community here is great

- Saw a build video by them, and really liked how comfortable they were about going a little off topic, yet still giving me good facts when looking for decent pc parts. From there I wated their tek and inbox videos. Those videos really showed me (Logan's mainly) character, and he seems like the kind of dude that you just chiilout with and talk to about everythign for days.

- I like the community, and they've provided me useful feedback for products I may want to buy.

1. The tech news segments,Logan's feedback and video reviews, great community, etc. I always look forward to the PC build videos even though i've never built one myself .

2. Honestly the same reason the OP gave. Logan and his crew are some very genuine and rational people that keep things interesting, informative, and don't shove mainstream crap into our ears. It's increasingly difficult to come by  people like this nowadays that spread the message and help because they want to and don't turn a blind eye for personal gain. 

1.  The first video I've watched was the Apple Hasn't Invented Anything video, followed by the two Windows 8 videos, and was sold after watching one episode of the Tek.  Logan, Wendell, and Maks are all very enlightened and knowledgeable people, and that's rare to find nowadays

2.  The community here is great and I really love learning all that everyone has to offer

I joined 2 years ago? something like that when it was razetheworld I was told the trio that created it were some kind of computer ninja masters, also this video was pretty funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBMVIrREdLI&feature=plcp

people here seemed to know what they were talking about and waaaay over my head, so I wanted that to change, now I'm not too far away

people are pretty real around here, they spot bullshit, they let you know whats up.

there are people that I may be able to help, but I'm retiring from that build a PC for me threads

I joined a couple of months ago because I'm a metal-head, and a tekkie. I stay here for the community

Found one of your videos on reddit, never left since...

You convinced me to make my own computer therefore saving me a lot of money.

Thank you. 

Joined since the very start of Raze The World. Still here sortof

Joined 2 years ago.

Why am I still here?

Joined about a year ago after discovering RTW from a chap in the comments when Logan was at Tiger.

Still here because it's the only forum I'm active on and It deserves my dedication.

I've watched a lot of Logan's reviews at Tiger, and followed some stuff on razethew0rld, but now got to signed up.

I agree with you berkutovich mostly. I'm not that interested in politics, only in things worth listening to, so I don't mind this kind of news, I don't watch any news anyway so that's better. I also enjoy keeping up with upcoming products and news in IT, they do it the right way (internet killed written it press and replaced it with something worse) but TS is a great source of information.

 I loved the YouTube videos so, I joined. Now I'm here.