User:Lapper

Welcome to me

Hey everyone. This is Lapper here, or you can call me Alex. I'm a fifteen-year-old guy living in Missouri, United States. Feel free to come to me with concerns, questions, or requests of service at any time. Homestar Runner has been a large interest of mine for a long time, and I hope to see that it keeps doing as well as this wiki is.

Science again! I said science again!

I was turned on to Homestar at the same time the stunt double email came out, late July 2003. It was then that I first saw Homestar at a local Science Center's Internet station, saw Strong Bad do all of his own stunts, and I was hooked immediately. Every single day I was on the site, watching the 'toons, playing the games, and exploring the easter eggs. Every part of the site was wonderful.

No, I'm pretty sure it was dot-wiki

In April of 2005, I discovered the Homestar Runner Wiki through a Google search some forgotten Saturday morning. I was amazed with how the wiki knew what was on the Homestar site before even I did. I created an account as fast as I could, for I wanted to be part of the community, to contribute my knowledge. However, during this initial period, my contributions were sparse. I mostly watched and learned, trying to pick up MediaWiki syntax while subtly making the occasional edit. More recently, a now good friend of mine welcomed me to this wiki after seeing one of my edits. I saw the array of helpful links and was suddenly enlightened. I opened my eyes and saw the wiki for the first time. It was at this point that one thing led to another. I since have become outgoing and active not only in the content of HRWiki, but also in the community.

Experience-al film

If I've learned anything from operating here, it's to exist on the wiki by these simple guidelines:

• On the wiki: Do not join into something that you can't fully grasp or seem to understand. Step back; give yourself a little time to figure out what's going on.
• On editing: Add strictly encyclopediac content, meaning with a neutral point of view, with no speculation, and with proper spelling, grammar, and capitalization. No one wants to clean up after a messy contributor.
• On reverting and blocking: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. There are indeed plain ignorant users. Forgive them, for they know not what they do.
• On chatting: Contrary to popular belief, emotion can be shown while online; quite well, in fact. Therefore, it is important to type as if you were saying it aloud. Think about what you're typing, and about every possible way it could be interpreted.
• On being a part of the community: Be clean in language and thought, be respectful to your peers, be cheerful in action, be forgiving of mistakes, don't personally attack users, don't argue — debate, and don't ask to be a sysop.