>>9

>or if the posters here now are generally new captures. If you are, how did you end up here?

I'm a newcomer. Saw a picture of Cracky on some chan-related site, learnt about the boards through ED, found the "celebrity fan club + personality cult + information-hunt atmosphere" interesting and started lurking the boards (in January 2010 I think).

>Have I missed anything interesting?

I'm not sure what things >>8 was referring to; but this is an interesting thread that covers some happenings of 2008:

http://195.242.99.71/cracky/kareha.pl/1304603144/

(It's kind of huge)