Hi Shawn!
Thanks for this intro about yourself! It's always good to know a little more about people who decide to join! We know it's hard to consider a forum a second home, as you said. Very often you end leaving because you don't feel at ease. Also admin are not usually persons you can talk to because they're normally only worried about making other members, apart from few of them maybe, inferior to them. Elites are something we don't like. Every member should be able to feel necessary to make a community better. We appreciate every contribution, if members respect each others.
Hope you'll like being here