Regardless of sign-up date, I am sure I can speak for many people when i say that I've been posting and being active on the internet for longer than my sign-up date. No, I am not a faggot who is trying to say "lol no you guys r stupid, i've been here for 6 years i just signed up in 07," but I am just trying to say that I can share your feelings very much.
I've been an active lurker of 4chan for a while now, about 2 years before I signed up here. When I was there, and i finally realized that it was never going to get better, i came here off of google on a chance, and thought this place was great. I joined maybe 3 days later max.
This place had so much potential, or so I thought when I joined. I came here and joined, and I found the forums button maybe a month or 6 weeks after I came here. I went and learned as much as I could about newgrounds, and I helped a shitload with wikigrounds, until I realized that it was basically just a combination of wikipedia and ED, so I figured it wasn't really worth time out of my day.
In my time on 4chan, I was basically given a briefing course for meme's, internet culture, and all that other shit that would make other people give me strange looks had I mentioned them IRL. I came here in search of a better forum, and a place i could call E-Home. I came here and absolutely loved the forums when i found out about them. I loved to post here, I told my uninformed, non E-Savvy friends about it. I basically told them it was a place to play games and shit. I even posted in my share of epic and funny threads, and got my post count up a little bit. Then, the school year caught up and I realized that this place was really just a shithole.
And there you get my long absence. I finally got fed-up with being called new by 06 users that were older here, but not in the internet or even IRL probably, than me. Count that in with my extremely low post count of 1k, and it wasn't really worth it. I left for a pretty fucking long time, or so it seemed as far as the internet goes. Maybe 4 or 5 months at least.
Then, Newgrounds, i came back to you. I was hoping for something that was better than the 9-12 year olds loitering on /b/ until 6/7th grade started so they could go start their adventures in middle school. But nope, this place has only caught on with the cancer almost as much as 4chan. I now realize that this place is virtually a 4chan with mods, and it doesn't suck balls.
However, it still leaves me wishing to have you back newgrounds. I don't know what i ever did wrong to you Old Newgrounds, but i want you back over this shithole that exists now. Yes, there is a good amount of regulars and non-troll's/newbies, but that number is growing shorter by the day. Come back to me newgrounds, give me a BBS that isn't infested with shit.
TL;dr : WTF NG?!?!?!