[Fey]

-How much difficulty did you have getting involved in the community?
Uhm, not sure how successful I've been thus far, but I keep plugging along. Until someone tells me to back off I'll figure I'm still working on it.

-Do you feel like such a small site is hard to become a part of because of the everybody-knows-everybody atmosphere?
No, actually, I find it a bit easier. Yes, everyone knows everyone, but I'm part of that 'everyone' even if I'm not the first 'everyone'. (oh, wow, that sounded better in my head) Will I ever know all the members as well as the first 'group' knows each other? Nah, but I'll be meeting all the new people at the same time, so that's fair!

I look at most forum sites this way; I'm either here to enjoy myself and accept that everyone may not like me and I won't know everyone OR I'm here to win a popularity contest, in which case I might as well go home. That being said, I do find it hard to interject myself into long-running threads, even if I do have something to add. But, I often tell myself the worst thing someone can do is ignore me, and it won't kill me.