15 Oct 2005, 10:08 am
kevv729 wrote:
It is to bad that only a few truly do post.
Question is how we can get these ones to post too.
Any IDEAS.
Question is how we can get these ones to post too.
Any IDEAS.
You can't directly. Not everyone will post anyway. What you do to encourage posts from others is keep the place both interesting and a safe haven. If someone sees a post they find relevant, they'll read it. If they feel comfortable responding, figuring they won't get blasted or slammed for something they say, they might consider posting.
On another forum, I've got well over 2K posts in one year. I've been here a month and have less than 100. This is a tougher forum, but AS is a tougher characteristic. It's easy to be slammed here, or feel as though you've been slammed. We're not exactly the best at social interaction, and we don't alway interpret reactions very well. For example, someone can post something; another posts a terse response. Is the response simply someone being objectively direct, or was it intended to hurt? I'd bet in so many cases a concise response is seen as a hurtful slam.
It's always risky to post, but probably moreso here. That said, I still think this place is a safe haven for Aspies, given the general membership population, and the members who moderate.
Don't underestimate the lurkers. They're a part of this world too. They're reading, agreeing, disagreeing, finding ways to cope in the real world, finding a place where someone's finally saying something they've felt for a long time. That's a good thing too.
15 Oct 2005, 4:16 pm
