How/why did you find elitefourum?

[quuador]

Cool to see so many members above mention my name or are here because of me, after seeing my comments on reddit or some of the articles I wrote.

@pfm

Or like posting links to reddit in an inorganic way. @quuador has already done a good job in the past of posting links to e4 on reddit when it’s been relevant, from what I’ve seen personally.

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It’s tough though because when we switched domain names, the “reputation” of the forum from the perspective of google had to start from fresh. So it took a long time to have those organic links getting planted across the internet again.

FWIW, it happens pretty frequently someone comes across a 4+ year old reddit post of mine with old (now broken) proboards links and I give them the same thread link for the new forum.

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As for how I came across this forum, I’ve actually told it quite a few times over the years, so I’m just gonna quote myself:
(TL;DR: I came across @justinator’s website and Efour collection thread. )

@quuador

At the age of 18-20 I played Yu-Gi-Oh quite a lot online, and also bought cards to recreate those decks irl, even though I had no one to play with except for my little brother. Eventually I came across TrollAndToad.com where they not only sold Yu-Gi-Oh cards, but also Pokémon. I bought a Hitmonlee, Venusaur and Nidoking (the only three cards I needed to complete the first 151 Pokémon).
Then, in August/September 2015 I came across all the Pikachus on TrollAndToad and bought all below 10 USD on impulse, which was basically the start of my Pikachu collection. At the time my most expensive purchase was a Secret Rare Black Rose Dragon for 22 USD (oh, how times have changed! XD).
When the Pikachus arrived I had around 50, and I started looking online at how many existed at websites like Bulbapedia and forums. I bought all cheap ones I could find, but eventually started buying more expensive cards from TrollAndToad.com as well (< 50 USD).
When searching for information online, I eventually came across Justinator’s website. At the time, in December 2015, he had around 550 of the ~650 Pikachus, and only then I realized how many Pikachus actually existed. He owned, or was searching for Pikachus I had never even seen before, and he was a real inspiration for me. When I joined the forum in February 2016 I had around 250 Pikachus, and my very first post was in Justin’s collection thread.
Then in August 2016 I created my own collection thread. At that point I had 472 Pikachus + 53 more incoming.

It’s kinda funny reading back in Justin’s collection thread and seeing what a noob I was back then.

Also:

I know I won’t be able to have a collection like yours, for two reasons: 1. I’m as of yet not paying more than 25 USD for a single card (and the ones I did pay 15-25 USD for had to be very special / cool to me personally). And 2. It isn’t my main collection - this is (twisty puzzles).

Hahaha. 1800 Pikachu cards later. And these days I’m happy if a Pikachu is worth only 25 USD on release…

Greetz,
Quuador