Survey: CHOWHOUND or not CHOWHOUND?

Culture, Media, General Culture, Chains, General Discussions
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Hey there! Chazzer has joined, too. He just doesn’t post all that often.

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  1. Yes
  2. Yes
  3. C
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  1. Yes

  2. Absolutely

  3. e)

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Yes
Yes
C, d, e

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1) Are/were you from CHOWHOUND?

Yes, I am

2) At this moment, are you spending more time here than on CHOWHOUND?

I haven’t been active on chowhound for about 6 months and was just coming back to try to be more active when the changes took place, I am still following site talk there, but I plan to contribute more time here.

3) What is the single most interesting board/topic to you?
a) Regional (e.g. San Francisco, New York…etc)

1. Cookware
2. Home cooking
3. Japan
4. Ontario, Canada

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  1. Yes. Joined there in late 2001, I believe.

  2. Here - sort of.
    – Because CH suspended me, and because I haven’t had time in the past few days to Email about reinstatement. I doubt I’ll be going back, but I would like to be reinstated. Although I won’t kiss anyone’s ass.
    – Sort of, because I haven’t had much time in the past few days to spend here either. But I will be spending more time here. It’s cozy. :slight_smile:

  3. Home Cooking (ETA: When Top Chef starts up, I will be a regular habitue of the Food Media board.)

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  1. Yes, since the very early days (tagged From the Beginning but that is not really true, just early on, back when they still begged for money periodically to keep the lights on and servers up).
  2. Yes.
  3. Home Cooking (but also spend time on regional boards, maybe 1/3).

I am VERY happy to see so many familiar names here!

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Don’t toy with us Ms. Whit!

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Hello, Pan.

My responses mirror yours - I’m a Yes, No, NYC, too.

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Ok… maybe I will have two more updates. This will be the second to the last. Due to many different answers, I expanded the original choices to a few more: “Media and News” and “Not about Food”. Please let me know if I actually assigned you to the correct category. Thanks.

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So I’ve already noted that the board that interests me most is my regional board. But since I feel my regional board (Philadelphia, DC, Baltimore) is too broadly defined here on HO, any regional news I want to post I post onto FTC and not here.

And that kind of points to the struggle I’m having between these two sites. To me they’re totally redundant. I know others recognize differences in tone, content, etc. But to me they’re almost identical. I wish I could just choose one or the other, but I can’t (yet) because of FOMO.

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  1. Yes
  2. Equal, at the moment. Waiting to see how each site evolves.
  3. A, Manhattan, outer boroughs & C, home cooking
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  1. Yes. I’ve been on CH for 15 years.

  2. Equal. CH still has plenty of NY content. I haven’t been to CA in 20 years.

  3. Regional Boards – Outer Boroughs and Southeast ASIA

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I had to look up “FOMO”.

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Holy cow my life is FOMO apparently.

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  1. Yes. I had to sell a “G” to afford to register here.

  2. I’d say I’m probably splitting my time pretty evenly between both my wife and my new girlfriend. Though, somehow, I’m spending more time alone than ever.

  3. There’s ago old adage which holds, when at a cocktail party, a gentleman should be able to hold his own on any subject of conversation for at least fifteen minutes. My gentleman status may be questionable for other reasons, but that approach apples to my participation here as well. Though, until we start getting more folks from Jersey, the regional boards will likely see less of me.

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  1. Yes, same username here, BostonBestEats! Same name on Yelp, Twitter, Facebook (or BosBeseats). Before moving back to Boston this year, I used to be PhillyBestBYOB on the Philly CH board (quit in disgust over the moderation), and I forget what on the Boston CH board before that dating back to at least 2001.

  2. No, still more on CH (mostly Site Feedback, watching it burn) It’s interesting how so much of your life ends up being chronicled on a board like Chowhound (and it’s sad when it passes away, as I expect CH eventually will).

  3. Regional (Boston, Philly). I generally don’t pay much attention to anything else, unless I’m traveling.

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  1. Yes

  2. Yes

  3. Home Cooking

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Yes
Yes
Cannot decide between C and D. D makes me do bad things. I enjoy regional boards but do not eat out much anymore. I do like knowing what is happening in the resturant world so I do check in but I am plainly to be more active in C&D.

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Yes. Chowhounder since the basic threaded board. Not a prolific poster, though.

Can’t say- I don’t think my regional board will take off here. I’ve been reading here by “latest posts” and that works for me. CH for General & Montreal board.

Regional (Montreal)
General
Home Cooking