I had my first SRK account in '04 (ndw13 zar) a bit before I got into the earlier PC versions of MB and played them very casually as I was balls-deep into 2I/3S at the time (and continued so for about 3 more years after).
I owe much to the SRK forums because had it not been for them I wouldn't have been able to feed my passion for mainstream (cvs2,3s) and poverty (tmnttf, doujins) fighters alike. I would have also been denied the chance to speak/chat with some of the "founding fathers" of the US Melty Blood community: Bellreisa, Psylocke, Dippy, Linalys, Ikusat, Veteru and of course the man responsible for launching EC's 5-man MB scene, Sp00ky.
In '06 I managed to magically forget my account info and decided to create another account (zee tee bee) because I love SRK that much =/. Since then, I've been rocking the same handle, playing and contributing to the same poor/quality games and still going strong with my focus now geared toward Melty of course. Despite playing MB as my primary game, I still frequent SRK as thread topics have expanded in variety since 2004. More fighters overall (AH, MB, ABK, VP, MK, SFEX, etc) are getting a bit more exposure, promoting from their respected community leaders and of course more unnecessary hate from biased (capcom) gamers - but I'll take what I can get because some publicity is better than blahblah, you know. Lastly, SRK holds the greatest thread in existence...The TMNT Tournament Fighters Thread (SNES) and as long as it's there getting bumped every 6mths, I'll still be a member of one of the greatest FG forums ever!
Long story short: my shit is legit, SRK is a good site when people aren't hating on other communities, fighting games own every other game genre in existence, and vote MB for EVO'10 if you play/like the damn game.
peas
~Zar The Biscuit
(there goes my nero 666 status :'( )