I offered to do the music stuff and at the end of it all realized that I stepped on Hec's toes.

Yeah, ya big galoot! OTOH, I didn't have to haul a PA system halfway across the city like we did in Chicago. Of course, that was kind of fun riding around with Jon and Emily and talking about binomials and Goldfrapp.

She's a computer program that created a hologram that's disguised as an elderly inuit dutchwoman from Hoboken who is using Trudy, Hil, meara and SA as sockpuppets

Damn. I think Clovis has some serious competition to worry about.

Nope, but Clovis is going to offer her some contract work, 'cos he's impressed.

When I do post, sometimes I feel like I am talking to thin air, but oh well.

Just speaking as another newbie, I think it's very difficult not to feel like that. Cause everyone seems to know each other, and it's impossible to tell how secure invidividual people actually feel, so it's seems like it's all the confident people, and you, the lone newbie.

Just wanted to point out that it's very easy to feel like this, without anyone actually having been unwelcoming or cliquey(and people have been really nice to me), just cause it's the nature of the board. Any board with a culture and a lot of people, I think.

I offered to do the music stuff and at the end of it all realized that I stepped on Hec's toes. Not cool of me, and thing is I didn't really clue in to what I'd done until much much later.

Re-galooting what Hec said. There was a minute or two where I felt stepped on because I had done all the work getting the PA in Chicago. But I got over it. I mean, a professional sound guy wanted to take care of the PA? Go Team Drew!

I also wanted to add my voice to the chorus of those who feel ignored sometimes. I recognize that it happens to everyone and I don't let it bother me. It just makes those times when I'm not ignored all the more special. ;)

I also wanted to add my voice to the chorus of those who feel ignored sometimes.

There's no way to NOT feel ignored at times. Not unless you do nothing but post in every thread. The people you're responding to are away from the computer, or are busy in another thread, or you can't stay on the computer to keep responding to people.

Did somebody say something?

t looks around...

Huh. I could've sworn...

(Okay, not nearly as funny when someone else posts in between...)

There's no conspiracy of silence. That I know of. That I will admit.

Ixnay, Awnshay...

I feel it might seem very "Well, people ignored the hell out of me, and it turned out okay," when I do wonder about the extent to which the community is beholden to baby a newcomer, and how much of the responsibility comes upon the newcomer.

There have been other online communities I never fit into, others I fit into for just a while. This is definitely one that stuck. I'm not mad at any of the others ... they just weren't me. Everyone's not going to be my friend. And I'd go insane if they were. I'd also go insane if I had a gazillion online communities. It's the nature of human interaction. Not that all the pegs here are the same shape, but most of them have wriggled into a hole, whether they fit there right away or did some judicious carpentry becomes more and more irrelevant as time passes.

That having been said, I do not think that Beej was unduly piled on, and there was evidence right there in thread to show that it happens to people who aren't new. Maybe she didn't want to be in a community where anyone was treated that way. As is her right. Which makes us not the us for her.

It just makes those times when I'm not ignored all the more special. ;)

Is it wrong that this sentence made me think of my cat?