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1) I joined the VHL 8 years ago because my brother Flyersfan showed it to me figuring I might like it seeing as to how I was growing into a hockey and NHL fan at the time. My first year or 2 on the site I was fading in and out of activity until eventually becoming a full time stay. The community is definitely what has made me stay, you guys are an awesome group of people that has given me a lot of entertainment over the years. The longer I am in this league the less the sims matter to me and more just overall community engagement as a whole is fun to me.
2) I am on the league discord, but usually I just pop in and talk for like 15 minutes before leaving and getting bored. The discord is the key place for a lot of people in this league it seems, and without it I don't think our user base would be so large
3) There is no anti-American sentiment on here, people used to talk politics on the discord before it got banned and of course disagreements spring up. If you think here is bad for anti-American sentiment, don't go on reddit then lol. This is coming from an American too
4) I fully support them, this website has been a forum website for most of it's existence and only evolved into discord into the past few years. I understand that the times are changing, but I do think it is important to stick to it's roots somewhat. I don't know how effective the efforts will be - the old timers use forum more for the most part and the new people plus tfong prefer discord
5) Yes because none of it is real, which is what fantasy is.