Among many, reading a post from this year from randompvg of Info Booth praising Creation Station as running beautifully, being of help to his department, and being the only area about which he heard only that people wanted more of it, and no complaints.
Finding out that there was a Doctor Who cosplay group, and from them, finding out about Torchwood.
Finding out that there was a Eugene Cosplayers group, and going to its picnic in cosplay/Loli.
Recruiting people from the forums to come run panels in Creation Station or to submit their fanfics for our Fanfic Contest or to read them at our Bedtime Stories event.
And especially this year, finding out FilkAeris was moving back to the states from Japan, immediately recruiting her both to submit fanfics and to run a filk panel, and both of those turning out excellently, and inspiring me to write my own filk!
Yes, I love the forums!