I think Wrongplanet has lost its way

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This site is here and so are we!
And that's true.
Here from me
Some one New.

i have only been here for 5 months, so i can not tell whether the forum has changed.
i see no real particular personality in the forum. each thread has a life of it's own, and different posters of different ilks tend to coalesce in different threads.

i find the forum dauntingly large. it is so large that my efforts to post are like a a mouse sneezing in the grass beside a drag car race.
it is like trying to yell my ideas from the top spire of the empire state building at the passing traffic on the streets below.
(if that renders a notion of superiority then i will rephrase) it is also like trying to scream "i've got something interesting to say" at a jetliner passing overhead at 40,000 ft...it just sails on and on and then it is gone.

even now i am aware i am putting too much effort into my post, but i can not be brief because i need to tie up all my points.

there are so many posts here, that people scroll to the interesting people's posts to read them only, as they have not the time to read posts like mine which get in the way.

if the forum was quieter, then posts like mine would be read more often.

it is not a fault of the forum or the members. it is a matter of population.
if someome goes to a rock concert alone, no matter how wildly they flail their arms, they will not be noticed or remembered by any of the people who went to the rock concert to watch the band.
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people change their avatars too much. i do not remember posters by their name, but their avatar picture.
if a person has a new avatar, i will not recognize them and scroll past them.
i always read posts by avatars i recognize like that "sonny hammond" kid out of skippy, or that girl who is sitting down on the lawn with a hat on, or the person with the black panther head ...etc. i do not remember their names, so if they changed their avatar, i would scroll past them obliviously.
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another matter is that there are some people with subconscious sexually motivated biases.
for example, if a girl who is pretty (proven by a video or some other validation) posts something banal like "omfg" in response to a thread, then they often are quoted and replied to ad nauseum by males who seem to think the girls comment was almost an utterance from heaven.
yet when average people post interesting thoughts, they never are responded to by those males.
i see that as rather like the NT's all around me in life.

it is a shame that people can say they are officially diagnosed in their profile without any proof. there are many people who would not care about lying to attain a false status.

if those pretenders (p1) attain a following of other pretenders (p2) who believe they (p1) are really AS (because they (p1&p2) have no clue as to authenticity), then the real AS people fall into the minority, and are swamped.

i mean.. if there are mostly NT's here who have fooled themselves into thinking they are AS, and they have the "floor" (the respected attention of the majority of members), then their imaginary descriptions of the "AS state" will attain benchmark status, and those like me who really are AS, will fail to achieve the benchmark set by an NT imposter (im-poster).
not fair.
like ants in the innocently unguarded sugar.

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on this forum i feel eccentric and out of place.
i feel as if i am not saying the right words to convey what i think.
i feel that the unwritten rules of this forum are beyond my ability to understand.
i feel like i can not be woven into the social fabric of this forum.

all those things point to one fact.
and that fact is that this forum is predominantly comprised of NT's.

too long. sorry.

How exactly do you do Quotes.

i agree with much of this and have been considering making a post about it, especially about im-posters, but i was afraid i would just get flamed (and i know it would be by the "im-posters".....btw, i like that term, very fitting Smile

Finally you can add quote tags manually. At the start of text you want in the quote box type [ then the word quote, then type ]. Do the same at the end of the comments you want in the quote box except type / after the first [ and before the word quote.

I'm amazed at how civil this thread is compared to the uproar my old thread along similar lines generated. I saw that something was a little slanted and I asked a simple question and got blasted for awhile.

I'm amazed at how civil this thread is compared to the uproar my old thread along similar lines generated. I saw that something was a little slanted and I asked a simple question and got blasted for awhile.

Am I the impostor type that "Flames".

My home team is the Calgary Flames. (Sure miss my home town)

The Flames were tenacious when I grew up out there in the 80s.

I can be an impostor on a normal web site too. (not gonna do it)

Think i'm flaming here possibly, sorry folks imposting all day long here.

Don't want to do wrong here.

Not sure here is where to try to fit myself.

Hope I'm not ruining moods here though.

Just felt like making a few solid points. (I thought were solid, maybe they were imposting flame what knots)

From what i Know, Flamers means something different I think. Never mind,

I think Fire heads do as they do, but every flame flickers out eventually (especialy The Calgary flames)

any ways still gonna keep trying here unless other WISE directed.