Kind of want to know who are the friendly people in this forum. Kind of want to become more involved in this forum, but if its anything like the constant silent treatment in chat , I dunno might be another couple years hiatus.
The shoutbox is but a minuscule portion of our user base. It's not a full indicator of our forum as a whole. I'm sorry to hear you feel you've been ignored but the best way to get noticed is to reply to threads, and introduce yourself in newbie camp. Making threads like this won't help. I strongly encourage you to be yourself and contribute to threads. That's how every member on here has made friends.
Newbie camp is a great place to start and we get to know each other in the Random Chat portion! We encourage people to come on here as often as they can and get to know everyone and make friends. If no one is around in the shoutbox, it can be hard to chat. Throw a post in Random Thoughts.