It's debatable whether I have actually joined or not given the amount of time spent on the naughty step, but I think this is the only place, along with Mumsnet, Lezpoo and the Racing Post website, that tolerate me.
I also relish the challenge of trying to alienate over 50,000 posters one at a time.
The bottom line is that the forum, and especially the Cellar, is like an online maximum security hospital, and has an appeal unique in my experience, with the moderators doing their best to damage limit the insanity like Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and invariably failing spectacularly.
I think I finally took the leap and signed up to tell someone that they were talking utter bollocks, and to stop being a ****, but this was in the dark days before you could call folk cunts, so in many ways I was a martyr to the cause of free speech.
I just don't think the racing thread was ready at that point.
Now newbies can call folk cunts with gay abandon, and you can torch the mod room, piss in the server and fist Ric, yet only a warning ensues.
I also thought it would be a good place to meet women for a bit of pump and dump action, but that has proved less than successful, although Corky's landlady did pm me a picture of a soiled razor wire thong.
The whole forum is one big, sprawling den of insanity that simply shouldn't work, but thankfully it does.