Here's a free tip.
The first thing you want to do when you join a forum is outfit your profile with an avatar. Doesn't need to be catchy, it just needs to be unique. I can tell you personally, if you post a question in a week, and I read it, I will not connect you with this thread. If you had an avatar, I would 100% remember that, and we'd begin to build camaraderie. I'm pretty confident this isn't just me, that for most forum users, 100% of our identifying people at first is via that avatar. We only start to learn actual screen names or real names much later. No avatar is almost like "anonymous" or "John Doe" as far as our ability to know you from the next guy with no avatar. Think of it as a small step to put something into your relationship with the forum and that small input will begin to help. It's even more important once you start answering others queries,. "oh yeah, that guy with the "Felix The Cat" avatar was really helpful"
Here's another quick example, I just had to go back to page one to copy and paste in "
Ezana4CE 's" screen name here, as i frankly might never be able to call up that screen name from memory, but the guy with the Bulldog avatar? (not to be confused with the boxer avatar, though he's a good member too!) He's very active, very generous and helpful on this forum, and I know we've exchanged information many times in various threads. I even think i know his real name now!
I feel like this is a great forum with lots of helpful people! I hope you are able to stick around and enjoy the support.
Jake