Quoting from ages ago but I didnt see this thread when it was first active because I didnt post .
My posting is primarily in the soapbox, not particularly because I enjoy conflict but because I dont have to be comfortable to disagree with people. Recently I've started posting in the less conflicty areas of the forums so I am apparently becoming more at ease here. Perhaps that is because I have got to know more people here than I did before, mostly because I see familiar people in Chat a lot and it is nicer to get to know people in real time.
My original reason for not posting was because I felt that I might say something to incriminate my real life identity here. My name here is actually a pseudonym, which makes it a pseudonym of a pseudonym (my normal internet name) . Thats not really necessary anymore, I dont fear being outed by my activities on this site because I've become less concerned about people finding out about this aspect of my life as I've grown older and more independant.
Sometimes I find nothing to post on in the forums because a lot of the content here is orientated towards American readers, and while I find common interests in some threads despite that.. it is only despite. That is probably the biggest excluding factor for me.