a friend told me there is a magical place where Joe Rogan, Kenny Florian, Joe Lauzon and other fighters post regularly and you can even talk to them. Also told me the Kimbo / Gannon fight was put together there, also read an article about some underground MMA site that helped the sport to grow, so I joined that UGh place thinking I want to be part of the history too. That was back in 08'
after lurking for little bit, I thought I should be more engaged, started arguing with people, wasting my entire day trying to show and tell, and for most, I'd end up reading dumb threads like, "calling out fake fighter and making them eat peepee" and became a low-key troll.
not going to lie, some of the troll shit had me entertained and was funny but too much at times, and noticed on some threads, almost every posts were trolls.
Then Lloyd Irvin shit happened, June White shit, I forgot there was one more but started losing interest on reading the discussions. I wasn't aware of the schilling since I just wanted all people in the world to love me at the time, but the same friend who introduced me to the UGh... gave me a breakdown of what was going on and he stopped posting on the UGh for awhile.
So I was not posting, lurking around the Ugh and SD to read the MMA news, but didn't really float my boat, and was stuck in this interval period of not caring for MMA discussions.
Then the same friend told me about this new MMA site, created by I think then, "Wild Each IT" (from the poor translation of Wanderlei Silva's rant). He told me it's the new and real magical place, where most of the old UGh people parted ways and created their own, where you can post without paying, as much as you want, people are friendly and nice, and they cover all MMA, not just uFc, so I checked it out.
I checked out TMMAC, at first, I wasn't feeling it. THere were too many damn rules. I lurked and started reading only the news from TMMAC. Then I joined, started posting, everything was too smooth and easy. It was weird, almost too good to be true. Then TMMAC started growing on me, more and more. So I stayed...
What I like about TMMAC is that you'll get what you put in. If you're a good poster who posts good credible information and perspective, you'll be known as a good poster with the rating system. If you're a troll, shitpost all the time, you'll get the SHIT rating. TMMAC guideline's emphasis on not to attack the person, instead, respond to the post, sounds cheesy but helped me grow as a person in a way that I now know how to separate a person's single action and the real person behind the closed doors, in politics, performances, mistakes, gestures, and other facets of life.
I should really learn how to summarize, I end up writing a novel when others could explain the same in like 2 sentences but that's why TMMAC is so awesome cuz you can even press "IGNORE"

if you don't want to deal with a certain individual.
Thanks
@Wild @Splinty and everyone who was involved with creating this awesome platform where people from all walks of life can cross paths to discuss, share new and old ideas, or just simply enjoy the awesome sport (FIGHTS) that we all love
