This is one of the more esoteric tags, because it was specific to alt.fan.dragons, being a kind of descriptor of how long someone had been part of, or how well-integrated someone was, with the community.

For reference, alt.fan.dragons came into existence on 1993/12/01, presumably part of the explosion of Usenet use arising from Eternal September.

As Wyrm puts it: “The very first online meeting place for dragons, and dragon-lovers, was the newsgroup alt.fan.dragons. It's still fondly considered to be home for many. Those who have been there for a while, or who have visibly enriched the newsgroup, or even those just appear to have been there for ages are (jokingly) called “fruits”, whilst those still new to the AFD community are referred to as “nuts”.

“This tag indicates the level of fruitiness, or nuttiness. There are two different standards that you can use, a time based one and an attitude based one. You are free to choose whichever of the two you prefer, and are not at liberty to specify which you have chosen to use!

If you happen to know what sort of fruit or nut you are, you can specify it after the rating in “double quotes”. Apparently Baxil (the original maintainer of the code) is a Fr+++“kiwi”!”

At the time I was most active, fruitiness/nuttiness seemed to be rarely mentioned outside of the Dragon Code, so the concept may have faded out somewhat with generational turnover. As a result, I may be missing a significant amount of context here.

I remember when humans ruled the newsgroup!: I assume that this was before otherkin-dom and therianthropy became prominent in the AFD community. If so, it must have been very early on, as sources give references to accommodations between different approaches to dragon-ness within a year or so of the newsgroup's beginning.

I remember Dalvenjah posting regularly.: Not sure if this is the same person as the founding server admin of DALnet; AFD apparently had several channels on that network, which I was not aware of at the time, so cross-over was evidently happening. Maybe I should check in to see if the channels are still there.

I've been here for a couple of years or so.: From this point onward there's no way to tie this tag to particular events aside from the user's own date of joining.

I've been here just over a year now.

Old fruits know my name and what I'm like.

My name is known, but that's about it.

They're still responding to my welcome post.

I haven't posted yet, I'm just lurking!

I've never heard of AFD!: Very meta.

I'm too fruity for my hat!

I am well into the fermentation process.

I have accidentally been used in food fights.

Friends have spotted me in fruit salads.

Squeeze me! I'm ripe!

I haven't fallen off the tree yet!

It can be said that I am very a-peel-ing!

A squirrel tried to hoard me the other day.

I'm only a sparkle in the eye of the tree!

Have joined, left, returned, etc.: I'm not sure whether it was valid to use this with any of the above, for example Fr++^ for “I've been here intermittently over the last few years.”

I got flamed off the newsgroup for yelling at Shim!: Evidently this subtype was included by Shim themselves in their proposal for time-based fruitiness that was incorporated into the original Dragon Code (and which remained mostly unchanged into the current version. I assume it was an in-joke of some kind, but alas, I don't know much more.