Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
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?
that's disguised as an elderly inuit dutchwoman from Hoboken who is using Trudy, Hil, meara and SA as sockpuppets. Pay attention.
I am no sockpuppet!
t /natter
I am no sockpuppet!
Shut yer puppethole.
That having been said, I do not think that Beej was unduly piled on
After going back and looking (after I'd written saying otherwise) she definitely was not. I mean, like 20 posts passed before 'Suela said anything. And then another twenty before (Allyson?) and then a bunch before Deb. That's not the whole board coming down on you. And everyone made it clear that they were not irritated on behalf of anyone else.
If I'm a sock ANYTHING it's one of those monkeys.
WITH pants.