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08 May 2007, 3:00 pm

What is going on here? Can somebody please explain this to me? For the past few weeks, I have been loading up the Haven with constant rants about every little thing. Then, I decide to branch out, lighten up, and post something in the Members Only section that consisted of old pictures of a store with ceiling vents in it, and thought it would be fascinating to see what kinds of reactions I would get from you guys, and I even tried to make it as positive as possible by the title of that post "Lookie what I found," yet I don't seem to get any replys to it. Well, do I have to keep ranting about stuff just to get reactions form you guys? Lately, it seems like the only way for me to get any attention on this board nowadays is to rant about something, yet when I try to express something that interests me, I hardly get any responses.



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08 May 2007, 3:08 pm

8O
You joined WP only 4 days after I did!

And being here the same length of time as you, I still haven't figured anything out about this place. Sorry to not be of help - but I think people's actions here are just as unfathomable as those in real life. NT or aspie, I can't seem to understand.



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08 May 2007, 3:09 pm

Stereokid wrote:
Lately, it seems like the only way for me to get any attention on this board nowadays is to rant about something, yet when I try to express something that interests me, I hardly get any responses.


If your goal is to share and explore an interest, well, if nobody shares that interest....nobody is going to respond. If people don't stumble upon your thread and they still share your interest, they won't respond. If someone feels they have nothing to add, they may not respond.

If your goal is attention....rant away.



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08 May 2007, 3:13 pm

shadexiii wrote:
Stereokid wrote:
Lately, it seems like the only way for me to get any attention on this board nowadays is to rant about something, yet when I try to express something that interests me, I hardly get any responses.


If your goal is to share and explore an interest, well, if nobody shares that interest....nobody is going to respond. If people don't stumble upon your thread and they still share your interest, they won't respond. If someone feels they have nothing to add, they may not respond.

If your goal is attention....rant away.


You could at least respond with a polite "I'm not interested."
I'm also trying to balance things out here. Most of my posts lately have been rants, and I'm trying to balance it out with positive things.



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08 May 2007, 3:29 pm

I feel I have to reply due to the comment about not getting replies. I usually go through the recent topics on the home page and read what people post. It then becomes a conversation in my head that I have had with the people who posted and I forget that I have not given any interaction back - sorry for this :oops:


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08 May 2007, 3:35 pm

If you're going to post pictures, there's a place to upload them...erm....you can find it on here somewhere, or on youtube and link it.
Your description of the pics sounds interesting. I'd like to see em.
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08 May 2007, 3:42 pm

I was on your "lookie What I found" and I have to be honest with you I did not know what to look at. You didn't make your self clear on what you were asking people.
As for people not responding-maybe people arn't intersted on that particular day. Or we all migh5t be having a bad day and thats why were not intersted. I don't know I'm probebly just rambling....



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08 May 2007, 8:35 pm

cecilfienkelstien wrote:
I was on your "lookie What I found" and I have to be honest with you I did not know what to look at. You didn't make your self clear on what you were asking people.
As for people not responding-maybe people arn't intersted on that particular day. Or we all migh5t be having a bad day and thats why were not intersted. I don't know I'm probebly just rambling....


Sorry.

In that post, you have to click on the links I posted, and then zoom in on the pictures.



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09 May 2007, 1:18 pm

Stereokid wrote:
You could at least respond with a polite "I'm not interested."
I'm also trying to balance things out here. Most of my posts lately have been rants, and I'm trying to balance it out with positive things.


I didn't even see the thread. If I see a thread, and I've got nothing to say...I say nothing. From the views to posts ratio, it is clear that many people do similar. If you want to know if anyone has viewed your thread...look at that number.



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09 May 2007, 5:47 pm

Oh I learned a new truth by reading this and applying this to other situations on WP. People who are not getting the kind of feedback they want are assuming that some how
there is something wrong with the WP community. Like if it were not for all the random spam posts,etc then maybe their own post would not be lost or something to that effect is what some people think. So if some how they can segment themselves in the right little corner on WP their post will suddenly be the worlds most popular thread.

Myself few to none of my threads are very popular but instead of blaming the audience or the theater I know I need to come up with better ideas or not worry about it. To be
honest it was upsetting in the begging but I truly do not care now.