A2Kers, where are you? Where is everyone?

that's boomer's territory

maybe you could do something about bedding and thread counts?

I already did it.

http://able2know.org/topic/110617-1

Don't START me on bedding and thread counts!!!

I love high thread counts...

kicky (was it kicky?) had a great thread about what's on your bed? it's one of my all-time a2k favs, much like the mashed potatoes thread on abuzz was one of my favs there.

overly high thread counts are nothing more than egotism run rampant.

Small thread count, eh?


There, there...

we have 1000 count and 300 count, the only noticable difference is the cost.

There's plenty of loonies posting . . . just no interesing ones . . .

Uhm . . . PQ . . . if you thought the fountofwisdom episode was exciting, i'd say you need to get out more, Girl . . .

The other site i mentioned would list the number of people viewing threads, and then the number of logged-in members. It is immaterial to me, but i wonder if that would be difficult for you, or involve code you'd rather not deal with.

If it's cool to watch paint dry now, wouldn't it have been cool to watch paint dry in the past? Won't it be cool to watch paint dry in the future?

there won't be paint i the future, it'll all be holograms

It wouldn't be hard, but that number is moving anyway, it's not useful enough to be on every page (it will probably just be on the home page or somewhere like that), and that's where the link to private messages is going to go.

I do find the new format more frustrating than the old a2k.

I post about the same as usual, maybe less lately because of health issues.

I wasn't that interested in the US election so that did not affect my posting.

I don't like YouTube or Facebook.

I do think a2k tends to be cliqueish in some respects. Although there are many great, supportive folks here....sometimes one feels a bit left out and ignored.

I think that is a fault of the perceptive vacuum of online conversation. You can't see us, and we can't see you, so if you make a remark which everyone reading accepts, you may not know that it has been noticed and "approved of" because you don't get the eye contact signal, the slight nod, which would signal you in face-t0-face conversation.

Sometimes i have gotten a lonely feeling while posting here (or elsewhere), but then i notice that people responded to me much later than when i had originally posted, or that by the time stamp, they were posting in another thread while i was making my post. People here whom i've met in person, and whom i like sometimes seem to ignore me . . . but this is a much more tenuous form of contact, and i know those people have nothing against me. There is an optimum time of day to communicate with the 'Mer'cans, which is late morning and early afternoon, USA time. For those from Oz, it's about 16 hours later (they're a day ahead of us most of the time).

I hope you will stick around, because i've often enjoyed your posts, even if i haven't taken the time to say as much.

Oh, I'll stick around, even if I do feel ignored (sniff). Not that I have much of anything interesting to say, but some posters make me laugh with their repartee and I do need something to laugh about lately. The topics are diverse and I like that.

How long have you been at a2k, Setanta?

Nonsense.

You may not be able to feel it, but I bet Diane can.

Since late in 2002, i don't recall the exact date. Jespah sent me an invite (we had known one another at Abuzz, and had met in Salem, Massachusetts), but i didn't respond immediately.

Taking the opportunity to take a closer look at this thread today. (Been frantically busy, the last couple of days ...)



So when you talk about these "spikes", Robert, does this mean higher than average visitors (including A2Kers & others) to particular threads? Just curious to know if participation (ie posts) to these 2 threads was higher than average, too. (Don't worry if this requires time you don't have right now to respond.)

The majority of those two spikes consisted of new visitors.



On both there were visitors who registered and posted, it's easier to see on the ostrich joke thread where over a dozen new members posted to during the spike.

Ah. Thanks, Robert.