You know, I initially started with LJ by commenting about someone's QAF website, and she was an LJ user, and so on and so forth. I always liked reading the fiction, but I didn't usually do it on LJ, but rather through various story sites such as bjfic.net, Xie-Xie's site, things like that.
Unfortunately, by the time I got around the joining, the series was over. I've made comments to individual authors about stories, but often by the time I read the story, it had been in circulation for quite a while, so there was no new discussion.
Your list of questions and memories intrigued me; it seemed like a second chance to participate in a discussion about my particular QAF rants and raves--or at least to read those of other people. Is this a particular community to join? This sounds like fun.