1. I was lured here by the stories also. It was before you had to
register, but it was soon after I found the place.

2.I haven't checked the stats, but not a long time.

3.The bastards at NASA still won't re-configure Hubble to get a
picture around my gut and the NSA can neither confirm nor deny
they have succeeded in doing so.

4. It snuck up on me, but the regular posters welcomed me and I
was at home before I knew it.

5. Some take weeks, others days. Depends on the personalities.
If they just live in the games room, months.

6. Active is now, I don't remember recognising a threshhold.

Lilith.

Perhaps the site has limited memory and processing resources
available and needs to be a little ruthless in it's definition of
"active". Does not augur well for their survival.

Gosh I'm gon'a blush ;)