I lurked a lot, I thought the forum was predominated by adults with vast computer knowledge. the earliest post I can remember was a support question where someone responded by saying I talked like a lolcat, but I didnt know what a lolcat was.
At some point I found firefox and its spellchecker, Blotto and I made OLDA (after one night I found the original "show yourself" style thread and was shocked...seriously) and suddenly everyone thought I was this super mature person.
lol, also in-game, when I first started, I was afraid to go into wushu (was open then) because I knew I would just fail and didn't want to ruin anyone's game (I have people pleasing issues sometimes)