During my first few years on the forum, I was extremely isolated socially and had only one offline friend. RF became not just an outlet for me to express my thoughts when I couldn't otherwise but also a venue for me to talk to friendly and interesting people and befriend them.
This forum has played a significant part both in my personal development and in improving my language skills over the years, so I enjoy helping to maintain it in my staff capacity as well as interacting with this community. This is my 10th year as a staff member, and I'm not even close to losing interest in the forum. You're stuck with me for a while yet.