Did anyone notice.....

29 Nov 2006

Quote by Srne
Whilst I don't want to appear to be picking your thread apart there was something that stuck out for me and I just wanted to give my view.
I have written good posts at times and had the odd reply and then seen a complete pile of po and it has had 45 replies

The above are in your opinion. What you may thought of as a brilliant and entertaining post may have been viewed as 'poo' and have nothing to do with being new or a reg.
Simply put, to imply that I may only reply to threads of so-called friends is bollox.
smile

Pick away Kiss its what the forums are all about to some extent, and yes my opinion is that some of the threads that people reply to are poo, and that they reply to their friends more readily than they do other peoples posts still stands. I say it as i see it on the forums and i dont come on here to make friends or kiss bottom, i dont think i mentioned that you, me or anybody else ONLY reply to their friends posts, i simply stated that in my opinion (theres that bloody word again), people are far more inclined to reply to people they know on the site than give somebody they dont know or are less frequent posters the time to reply!!
I agree with what you are saying. The only reasonable explanation I can think of is it being like if a relative stranger came up to you in a pub and asked you a question, and you thought about it carefully and tried to answer the best way you knew how. But when you look up the person who asked the question buggered off right after asking! It gets annoying.
When I answer a thread I am usually answering the original poster unless I am referring to another point specifically - if I don't 'know' the person who posted the thread how do I know that are going to bother reading my reply?
I don't think people behave the way they do because they are a 'regs' and buddies, although a certain element of bouncing off one-another will occur. It's far more likely because the novelty of the forum has worn off and you become much more selective about what and who you reply to.

29 Nov 2006

I get a few people saying I talk a load of shite but if they met me .........they'd would say I was still talking a load of ever I get loads who say they like my posts and have never met me,but probably if they did meet me they would say I talk a load of shite...om the other hand,
I get ....................
I'll get me coat...........
bolt

29 Nov 2006

Missy?
sage words of wisdom! ;) BTW, how's the secret santa fairy lights? :P after indulging one of gem's little whims last weekend, i have the makings of another one on my bedside table! :shock: i'm thinking i need to glue it all back on at some point, but hey, you can have first dibs if you want? wouldn't trust me to wire up the bulb though if i were you?
:shock:
:eeek:
:P ;)
Drewxcore?
i've got nearly 5000 posts? well, o.k. it's actually 4380, which ain't nearly so impressive, but who's counting? confused

i can guarantee you that, apart from those who set out to prove me wrong, i'll have no responses whatseoever to this post? it's not that we're unfriendly and cliquey ((( o.k. maybe we are a little bit from time to time? :P ))) it's just it's very, very busy, and how many posts can we actually reply to?
without wishing to cast aspersions on the size of your fins, it's a fact that you're a very small fishy in a very big pond, and we have to conserve our energies for swimming under plastic castles, and stuff? don't really matter if you're a newbie fishy or not? it helps if you're not, obviously, but in the grand scheme of things, noone really has the time to respond to every post. some go out of their way to post a rotflmao

if you're vaguely amusing on a thread they've actually read in it's entirety, but out of 400 000 fishies, 399 997 fishies won't, simple as? :? a little tickle on the old dorsal now and then is all well and good, but you have to accept that strokes on your fins, particularly along your pectorals, are few and far between. would that it were not so, cos i'm quite partial to a bit of pectoral tickling myself, any which way!? ! sad

once upon a time it was easy being a small fishy. we'd swim about, blowing bubbles, nibbling seaweed, mooching about them little diver thingies with a pump up their jacksies, and what have you? pretty little gold fishies, in particular, had some value. they were even official currency for a time. alas, as you're no doubt all too well aware, fishies have to work bloody hard to have any value whatsoever these days? unless of course you're a ginormous Cod, obviously, in which case you're worth about a pound?
anyways, i digress, sort of. once upon a time, i was deemed to be worth precisely one fin, and one bubble? oh . . . and a penknife with that thing for getting stones out of horses hooves missing? oh . . and a keyring in the shape of a shark? can't say i was all that happy about it i can tell yer, but as The_Lairds gobby 10 year old would no doubt say . . . . WHATEVER!? :? :(
*wobbles head in an elastic, Oprah Winfrey kinda way*
do what you can, but never sink so low as to be worth only a broken swiss army knife, o.k. ?!
hope this helps? :?
neil x x :P
p.s. looking at your sig, i'm wondering if you've been touched by His Noodley Appendage? biggrin

RAmen Brother? Yaaaarrrr! ;)

29 Nov 2006

:shock: :shock: :shock: Neil..... A post worthy of recognition as it contains a high standard of bollox which we have not seen for a while worship

I reckon you are missing Warwick and Easy myself with all that fishy talk :giggle:
Drew if you understood all that Neil said can you let me know what he said in PM please wink

29 Nov 2006

I do think sometimes people will more readily reply to their pals' threads, but if you look at all the threads across the board nearly everyone is answered and quite often by those who are well known names and posters. I have noticed esp. if a new person comes in and says hello, they are always replied very warmly to. It's like everything else in life, you feel more secure with those you know rather than strangers until you get to know them, and that stems from a very early age.

29 Nov 2006

I think the forums are great to be honest, there are a few people who post really really regularly on them and these are generally the people who get lots of replies, having looked throught the forums recently you see the same old familiar names posting and i think thats great, i always look at them when i see them.
I dont always reply as i sometimes think that i have nothing to say on the subject or somebody has already said it (only better usually), or that it is just a bit of chit chat or banter, but still the forums are my favourite place.
People do as Kiss said earlier generally reply to people they know because they have more chance of getting a reply or the person reading the reply gets or knows the sense of humour of the poster (which can be tricky sometimes with a stranger). If truth be told i have a certain amount of people i know write good posts and they seem to catch my attention more readily, but i do read through lots of posts and if one is good or entertaining or thought provoking, i will reply regardless of if i know them or not, which granted others do also.
The forums are a complicated place, and as in life we all try to fit in where and how we can, i sometimes feel a little sorry for newbies posting as it must be so hard for them to gauge how to write things as there is a sort of style that each forum fits into. Sometimes newbies make mistakes with their initial approach to a subject or generally get things very wrong, when this happens i prefer it if people "nudge them in the right direction" which some of the regs who i think are "top banannas" often do, i just hate it when some others jump on them and an onslaught occurs, and this happens, though hardly as much these days!!
If i can give advice to newer forum members, its like others have said "stick in, stay around and be yourself" eventually if you do one of two things will happen, people will accept you for who you are and you will love the forums, or if you are generally antagonistic and dont learn form your mistakes people will genrally ignore you and you will wander into the depths of the SH forum twilight zone, you have been warned (in a transylvanian dracula like accent) wooooohaaaahahahahaaaaa!!

29 Nov 2006

Bloody hell I've just ploughed throught his epic thread and I've forgotten the point I want to make. I'm sure it'll come back to me mad

29 Nov 2006

I remember now biggrin

I love the way you never know what posts will take off and which ones won't. Some lay dormant for days and then suddenly they are discovered and become very popular. Other sink like a lead balloon nevewr to see the light of a VDU
Once you've posted your message it takes on a life of its own, some grow strong and others wither and die. That's just the way it is.