I joined immediately, but lurked for about a week before I jumped in. I was pretty shy about answering questions for about a month. After that, it was full steam ahead.

Not long. When wis.dm went down, someone from there brought us here.

I was invited by this mad woman from answerbag immediately after that site turned to shite.
Took me no time at all to jump in & test the water…..it felt good, so I stayed.

I didn’t think about it. I just joined. Then I got sucked in.

I lurked for a while because KatawaGrey spent so much time here and talked about it so much, then after a few months she convinced me to join and now I live here.

A minute. I had a question, and joined right away.

I felt I had to join this wonderful even quicker than when I got the Tonight Show back from Conan O’brien.

I joined in after taking a brief look around. I had never been in a Q&A site, so it really caught my attention.

I read around for a bit and then joined in order to ask my question. The responses were so sound and genuine. I knew then I’d be sticking around :-)

About a minute.

I was looking on google for info about the LHC sabbotaging its self from the future, when I found fluther. It took me about a minute to realize it was much more than just a forum or other Q&A site, so I joined up.

Like, a second. I needed some help with some stuff and I went for it.
It definitley was love at first sight :D

I visited the site once, several years ago, and figured I had too much to do to add this.
A year or two later, an ex had lunch with me, and told me how wonderful this site was. Since I now knew someone here, I signed up. A couple of days of facebooking later, I began posting. It immediatly felt like home.
There was no thunderous command, water tart handing out a sword, or AstroChuck riding a flaming pie.

An internet search for a question about single shoes on roadsides that MissAnthrope asked got me here. After reading that thread, I was hooked. The time on Fluther has been like taking a leap into the rabbit hole from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The members are an eclectic, and sometimes eccentric, group. Thank you all for the ongoing continuing education experience.

Several months reading, observing and getting to know the main characters before I signed up.

As soon as I heard about it I signed up. I was desperate for an alternative to Answerbag.

About 4 seconds. I didn’t read the rules because I’m young and reckless and I asked if anyone had read a book I was studying. You were all quite helpful and I decided I liked you and stayed.

I found this place long long ago, and lurked around, but I didn’t find it all that appealing, and forgot about it. I joined later, without expecting to stay, after the AnswerBag thing.

Shoulda joined that first time I came by here.

Probably one hour after stumbling across it. That first night I fluthered for at least 6 hours.

I had enough trusted friends recommend it that it took me only a few minutes.

Right away, after the old AB turned to crap. I was invited by someone who had also mutineered, and immediately liked it here and never went back.

No more than a couple days after my partner showed it to me.

I joined right away after discovering the site by accident. It felt like a potential home right away. It is a special place to me.

Immediately. I got my first bit of lurve 5 minutes later.

Straight away. I googled a question and got a fluther result. Once I got here I joined and have been just a wee bit addicted since then.

A student found it while doing a research paper on local dialects. He called me over to his computer and asked if this site was a “valid source” for his paper. I scrolled up and down that one thread, thought “whaa thaa…...” but said, “No it isn’t, but you can get ideas from here,” and immediately wrote down the address. I joined immediately after work. Definitely lurve at first sight!

I hit Fluther running.
And instantly pissed a few people off.
And one of them left!
I hope it wasn’t me.

Apparently most Canswerbag immigrants joined on December 11, 2009.

I joined on the 14th, so I guess it took me about 3 days. IIRC, I spent that transitory weekend browsing all the metastatic drama that consumed the bag, before I joined Flooder. ;-p

I found it accidentally by a google question that led me here. I was immediately drawn in. I joined and asked my first question, a really dumb one, right away. If I had more free time I would definitely be on Fluther more often.

When I join a site / forum etc I don’t do prior investigations I just join and figure out it later if it was worth it or not. I do not take decisions based only on first things i see because looks can be so deceiving.

I ckecked it out for all of twelve seconds, then joined. :)

When wis.dm shut down I joined fluther pretty quickly so it didn’t take me long to decide to join, it took me a while, a few months, to decide to stay here though.

523.234234293739 seconds (give or take).

About 20 minutes. I got here because I googled a question, landed here, and got an answer or 6. I’d never been involved in a site like this and was leery of getting involved. I roamed around looking at questions and comments. Then, I decided to try it. I’m enjoying it immensely, thank you.

I found the site via an article on another website. I checked it out, and was immediately intrigued. I read for hours, joined, answered a few questions, and asked my own. It felt like home and I’m probably hooked for life.

Well I just randomly found it and was like.. This looks interesting, join! :)

It didn’t take long for me. I think it was within the first 24 hours of finding Fluther. I was searching for ways to reduce my cat allergies without getting rid of the cats ..somehow I ended up here. I found myself reading through many other entirely different questions. I was intrigued by the layout, rules and simplicity ..so I signed on. The Fluther community is what made me stay. :)

A few friends invited me from another site. I came, lurked and went back to the other site. A more reputable Internet friend showed me around—-I was a bit Net illiterate at the time—and then I was hooked.

The humor and intelligence found here is like no other site I’ve ever experienced before ;)

My transition seemed fairly quick to me, but it was far from a day. I had been on Askville when things started to get very high schoolish. I was in a particularly vulnerable period of my life and I was getting depressed and I blamed some of it on the way I was being treated on Askville.

A bunch of people were leaving Askville at the time, and so they mentioned fluther. I thought I’d try it out. I liked that it was similar to the good parts of Askville, but it had moderation which kept out some of the bad parts of fluther. More than that, it seemed to emphasis egalitarianism. There was no competition because lurve didn’t mean anything. That was most important to me.

Of course, I did want to build a reputation here and to a large extent, lurve does signify the degree to which people appreciate my contributions, whether questions or answers. So I feel appreciated by other jellies, and that makes an enormous difference.

Still, being sought out or recognized is a big deal to me. There are certain questions that I really hate because they remind me that I’m not really the kind of person people would want to hang out with. These are the questions that ask others to rank jellies. I argue against them mostly because they always make me feel bad.

The only thing I do well at is answering questions, I guess. I do it because it’s fun and because it gives me an excuse to write and I learn things through the questions here. Random things. Being popular is not something that I ever was nor ever will be. Perhaps people are surprised that I even care, but it’s not a skill I have.

It took me a long time to learn these things—probably years. But I guess with in a month or so, I stopped going to Askville at all, and my allegiance was fully to fluther. I’ve had my problems here. I’ve quit two or three times, but I never could stay away. I hope, some day, to not need to be here. But I’m not there yet.

A couple of months. I checked in from time to time, to see if I thought it would keep my interest. I like the question and answer format – I’ve never used another site of this kind. There’s a lot to learn here.

I signed up as soon as I learned that a number of my old AiRoW buddies were here.

I made the decision of joining Fluther in 29 seconds. Actually faster than the way Justin Bieber’s love child was conceived.