Steve said, "I'm a newbie too. I only have 1,400 posts . . ." ONLY 1400?!!?! My post count is a little over 600, significantly less than 1400, and I do NOT consider myself a newbie. So I figured, if Steve's gonna call himself one, I may as well take it all the way and call Chupperson—who has more posts than anyone else—a NEWBIE™.
As for the Special Powers side of things, you can see how things happened at this old topic:
http://www.classicgaming.com/tmk/board/topic.asp?topic_id=70074&forum_id=500&Topic_Title=Society+of+the+Forum+Secret+Keepers&forum_title=&M=0&S=TrueI, alas, have only a 56K, dial-up connection. The worst part of this is that my house has a DSL connection running into it, but it's for my dad's work. His office is downstairs (as opposed to the upstairs location of our home computer), and there is no practical way to bring the connection up here—other than spending money we don't currently have to hire professional workers to run it through the walls.
Even with a fast connection, though, lots of posting takes me lots of time, and I am very much in school right now. Forced education* lasts until early June, and then I'm free from it for the rest of my life (yippee!!!).
*That is, public education. All of my future education after this June is college. I won't like every class in it, but it will be much better than the forced stuff.
I posted in BORED!! With a pinch of salt.