Welcome to the forum elric999!
I remember when I first read the Archives. Read the strip, click Next, read the strip, click Next, over and over to find out what happened next. Until one day there was no Next option. Then it was , "Aw crap," now it's only one per day now instead of a hundred per day. To think that was more than ten years ago...
you say?
Nah, that's pretty easy to figure out. You're Dr. Schlockenstein's monster.
Anyway [member's name here], now I will tell you about the strange tradition aimed at newcomers.
At one time there were Pesterers who pestered you for poetry, but that tends to be very rare nowadays. Even though you may not be pestered, if you do go and post an original poem --usually haiku but any (clean) type is accepted-- written by you, you will most likely receive a gift in return. The "gift" will most likely be useless or maim you. Whichever it may be, it should be interesting and surprising. Lastly, this strange tradition applies to the pestering not the poetry. You are not required to do anything more to be a member here...unless you want to possibly get a [name of harmlessly fatal item here] or some other type of gift.
Now go forth and do (almost) whatever you want, just don't speculate in Reactions.