Aaawww, thank you so much!
This is a great idea for a thread.
I absolutely love this community. It's full of people who are not just supportive, but are willing to share real and honest advice, which is something I value enormously.
It's not hard to find fluffy online communities where everyone only ever says positive things. It's much harder to find communities like this one, which feel friendly, safe and warm, but which are also genuine places of advice and learning, and where people aren't afraid to share their knowledge. To me, that's genuine positivity and support. It's much more valuable.
There are so many people here I really admire and enjoy talking to - too many to list without accidentally forgetting someone and feeling bad. But I am going to give one particular shoutout:
@darthmongoose
I'm in awe of how often you jump into threads with detailed answers to all sorts of different questions. You clearly put so much time into this community, and it's so admirable. Not only that, but your advice is rock-solid, and you justify everything you say with various examples and explanations. Even in the rare instance where I don't agree, I can still clearly see where you're coming from, and how you arrived at your conclusions. You're really respectable.