thread starter or plain ole poster

23 Feb 2010

so are you a thread starter or like me more of a poster
i used to think i was at times a bit of a thread starter but having trawled through all of my old posts looking for my first one ever i have found my memory as ever fails me and i was completely wrong in my remembering
i always thought i was a bit of a thread starter but my memory served me completely wrong i have started hardly any and i am definately more of a plain ole poster
although i am now going to try and be a more productive forumite and start hopefully posting some fun and maybe even thought provoking threads
yeah right tis gonna b just like my good intentions for excerise i start out with all the best will in the world but then it turns into a non starter rolleyes

23 Feb 2010

I'm more of a poster than a thread starter. Although I log in to the site most days, I have become more judicious in the posts I reply to. I am currently enjoying the resurrected threads very much, particularly the funny ones. It makes me wish I could meet more of the 'regulars' in person, even if only for a raucous dinner party.

23 Feb 2010

I used to be a thread starter... I think you get to a certain point when they've all been done before. I think it's cool that new people come in and start them all over again but I've lost the enthusiasm for it. I feel hugely different about the swinging scene now to how I did when I first started out. Perhaps that's a thread topic in itself but I just don't have the inclination.
I was a prolific poster when I first started out... different site but I had 1000 posts within my first month. Then I was a munch whore. Then you start to see the politics and the gossip and the lies and then you start to see things differently and I just don't have the urge to post as much as I used to. Fits and starts really but I suspect my posting boots are long gone.

23 Feb 2010

Quote by Dirtygirly
I used to be a thread starter... I think you get to a certain point when they've all been done before. I think it's cool that new people come in and start them all over again but I've lost the enthusiasm for it. I feel hugely different about the swinging scene now to how I did when I first started out. Perhaps that's a thread topic in itself but I just don't have the inclination.
I was a prolific poster when I first started out... different site but I had 1000 posts within my first month. Then I was a munch whore. Then you start to see the politics and the gossip and the lies and then you start to see things differently and I just don't have the urge to post as much as I used to. Fits and starts really but I suspect my posting boots are long gone.

wow DG....could have written that myself...and I do think that its a fab topic for a new thread!!

23 Feb 2010

I think its generally a universal thing with regular forumites that there posts become one liners more or less for the most part as time goes by. All one has to do is look up the early threads by the "Ancient ones" to find them to be rambling faltering monologues of wisdom opinion and interest, trying their hardest to convey what they mean in a way all can understand and appreciate. Theres also a case of once knowing how the place works and getting a feeling for the people in it, there becomes less of a need to try and explain oneself as there is comfort in in the familiarity and knowledge of who will be reading it and to those significant to you.

23 Feb 2010

Quote by Lost
I think its generally a universal thing with regular forumites that there posts become one liners more or less for the most part as time goes by. All one has to do is look up the early threads by the "Ancient ones" to find them to be rambling faltering monologues of wisdom opinion and interest, trying their hardest to convey what they mean in a way all can understand and appreciate. Theres also a case of once knowing how the place works and getting a feeling for the people in it, there becomes less of a need to try and explain oneself as there is comfort in in the familiarity and knowledge of who will be reading it and to those significant to you.

oooohhh you wise old sage you....very deep for a lunch time !!

23 Feb 2010

Quote by Thebonediggers
I think its generally a universal thing with regular forumites that there posts become one liners more or less for the most part as time goes by. All one has to do is look up the early threads by the "Ancient ones" to find them to be rambling faltering monologues of wisdom opinion and interest, trying their hardest to convey what they mean in a way all can understand and appreciate. Theres also a case of once knowing how the place works and getting a feeling for the people in it, there becomes less of a need to try and explain oneself as there is comfort in in the familiarity and knowledge of who will be reading it and to those significant to you.

oooohhh you wise :sad: old :sad: sage you....very deep for a lunch time !!
I copied and pasted it from lol

23 Feb 2010

Quote by Dirtygirly
I feel hugely different about the swinging scene now to how I did when I first started out. Perhaps that's a thread topic in itself but I just don't have the inclination.
I was a prolific poster when I first started out... different site but I had 1000 posts within my first month. Then I was a munch whore. Then you start to see the politics and the gossip and the lies and then you start to see things differently and I just don't have the urge to post as much as I used to.

Why not just ignore it? You dont have to get involved or let it effect your habits, we never have. There are normally enough people at Munchs that you can go to one talk all night without even talking to anyone from a previous munch. Always newer members around too, the turn over is pretty high so as far as we are concerned people who want to get political and gossip can go for it.
Errm more of a poster but I do start threads too when the mood take me.

23 Feb 2010

Quote by Dirtygirly
I was a prolific poster when I first started out... different site but I had 1000 posts within my first month. Then I was a munch whore. Then you start to see the politics and the gossip and the lies and then you start to see things differently and I just don't have the urge to post as much as I used to. Fits and starts really but I suspect my posting boots are long gone.

Interesting - there didn't use to be posting to "re-write" things that may or may not have happened. Remember that the Internet and Sites like this are very recent in human evolution, whereas sex is as old as the hills - well almost!
Plim wink

23 Feb 2010

Quote by Plimboy

I was a prolific poster when I first started out... different site but I had 1000 posts within my first month. Then I was a munch whore. Then you start to see the politics and the gossip and the lies and then you start to see things differently and I just don't have the urge to post as much as I used to. Fits and starts really but I suspect my posting boots are long gone.

Interesting - there didn't use to be posting to "re-write" things that may or may not have happened. Remember that the Internet and Sites like this are very recent in human evolution, whereas sex is as old as the hills - well almost!
Plim wink

Not quite sure what you mean in reference to the part of my post you quoted... dunno

23 Feb 2010

i think a lot of what stops me posting can be worrying what impression i am making andd this in itself makes me mad at myself in my vanilla life i couldn't give a flying fook what anyone thinks of me i know i am a good person and if someones opinion of me makes them not wish to get to know me then thats their loss
yet on here i feel slightly different there has been many times i have posted my opnion on something and the replies it recieves kinda make me feel like some of them are looking down their noses at me thinking what a load of bollux i am spouting and how ill educated i am to have such an opinion
well i have just decided that those that think that way aren't worth the time and energy worrying about they aren't the sort i would wanna meet anyhoo so i now will post my opinion and be damned i no longer care
gawd that is liberating lol

remember now why i addopted that attidude in my vanilla life too now
so flipa

23 Feb 2010

nope
lp

23 Feb 2010

I never reply to threads.
Damn, damn, damn.
bolt

23 Feb 2010

I'm a bit of both; I start a fair few threads and I post on others.
I enjoy the forum. It has its good times and its duller times but, on balance, I make it work for me. If I'm not in the mood, I don't read or post. If I am in the mood it can really amuse me.
I enjoy it because of the diversity of folk in here.

23 Feb 2010

I occasionally start threads, normally when I have something that I find funny.
My normal status seems to be thread killer. Once I've posted everybody else seems to give up lol

23 Feb 2010

i am a thread killer.....

23 Feb 2010

Quote by minxysub
i am a thread killer.....

No you're not.... I am! smackbottom

In edit: I just realised I probably shouldn't have used that icon for you!
:lol:

24 Feb 2010

Quote by Cubes
i am a thread killer.....

No you're not.... I am! smackbottom

In edit: I just realised I probably shouldn't have used that icon for you!
:lol:
:lol: is the perfect icon biggrin

i do wish we could use it in chat as well innocent

24 Feb 2010

Quote by minxysub
i am a thread killer.....

No you're not.... I am! smackbottom

In edit: I just realised I probably shouldn't have used that icon for you!
:lol:
:lol: is the perfect icon biggrin

i do wish we could use it in chat as well innocent

ya know wat i think i'm a thread killer too cause the amount of times i reply on a thread and sit n wait for a comment after mine n it never comes as i watch it sink further down the page with my name as last posted ffs rolleyes