How Do You React When Few Members Respond to Your Thread?

Your eyes burned what looks like two bullet holes through my monitor screen.

Uhmmmm....bunny

Have you forgotten who worshipped those two threads....immediately?

Moi

I once started a new topic and got one response. the one response I got was a moderator telling me my topic was being moved to another forum. (I think the mod was Phoenix)

Luck of the draw sometimes, I think. Doesn't really surprise - or dismay mme when a topic I start doesn't swell to hundreds of replies but instead stalls out in a few pages; mostly thats what happens. Mebbe thats why I don't start a lot of topics, or maybe I should start more - I dunno. Just the way it goes, I guess. Doubt I'm gonna change much.

I agree with George, I think it was, who observed often a labor-intensive, informative reply to someone else's querry often goes unacknowledged ... that sorta bugs me, but I get over it pretty quick.

No darling - you were all that stopped me from falling upon my carrot....



smooch

Now there's an image... perhaps JPinMil could work up a photo...

I have started many dead as doornail threads, and have perhaps more threads than any of the rest of you that I killed with my words of too much sincerity, obvious to me as a tremendous failing. I have to let out the scamp within, but... I can't seem to do it while typing, she says ponderously.

I just go to pieces when people don't reply. I get depressed, stop eating, can't sleep at night. MY booze intake shoots up drasticaly, and I feel like the most unloved person on earth.

You have been warned.

No, I can't believe it.

But in case you need to know there is caring, I care about you very much and I know a bunch of other people who do too.

Enough of that, whatcha been doing?

Letty- I agree. But then again, maybe the person got bored with the thread, and is no longer checking it!
I also become miffed when I respond with what I consider an intellectually acute remark, and the conversation goes on without anyone even acknowledging what I have said. It is as if I were invisible.

There are some threads with which I become intimidated. That is, where there are two or three members who are discussing something on a very advanced level (usually in philosophy, or history). Anything that I could say in that conversation, would sound dumb, as compared to what is on the thread.

So I just have to content myself that I am absolutely brilliant in other areas of life, and move on!

Of course I'm disappointed when there's no response at all to a thread I've started. (I remember starting an Archbishop Desmond Tutu fan club at Abuzz in which I remained the sole member! ) But these days, if there's absolutely no response, I'd probably just delete the thread after a couple of days ... or else keep talking to myself/continuing to post until someone showed a bit of interest in the topic & joined me.

I thought I was the only one sucking my thumb over that ! I've really felt deflated at times when I've posted on a thread and the conversation just flows on as if I hadn't posted at all. A2K should offer free invisibility cloaks/security blankets for the more sensitive souls of this forum.

it's no big deal, rather than be upset that nobody replies, it makes me very happy when a thread does well (my definition of well, over 2 pages and still on topic)

I'm not fussed one way or the other.. Just as I read many, many posts and not always reply, it does not mean that I did not find that post interesting, worthy or intelligent. Sometimes I am deep in thought about another post, sometimes I am interrupted and don't get back to make my reply meaningful and many times I feel I am just ill-equipped to answer something of which I have no knowledge. Some posts too, are just newsworthy. Good to know about, but not necessarily needing a reply.
I can't take anything personal when no responses are given to my posts.

Think of it as being in a huge ballroom for a party with lots and lots of conversation going on....lots! We surely cannot talk to everyone who is speaking and sometimes we just have to nod and smile and listen.

I don't really care. I try to be informative or provide games / work breaks, but if no one responds it's no big deal.

Sometimes I find what I think is breaking news, or info people should have and people read it but don't respond. That's okay. At least from the views counter, I know they have been exposed to the info.

However, if I make a really "smart" comment or come up with something extremely witty, I would appreciate a few high fives, pats on the back, perhaps some kudo's. I mean, c'mon. It's not like it happens very often.

I usually go out, past the coffeeshop where the smoke is wafting out, past the imported evangelical church thing, onto the main road, and, like, curse at the first random passer-by I come across there thats not bigger than me. I just erupt into foul explitives and when they freeze in surprise, I tell 'em, "you're interested NOW, eh? NOW you wanna know, EH?" and I spit in their face. That usually makes em pretty angry or just leaves them perplexed, and thats where I make my exit laughing out loud in my best demon voice, and I return home to A2K to try again.

nimh: um, isn't there an election somewhere that you could focus on? Ukraine, Iraq or one, perhaps, in your country? (You always seem to be having an election in your country). Relax, nimh, and draw us some pretty graphs.

Has anyone ever tried to narrow down what things make a thread successful?

I think it all has to do with how close to the border of ideas a thread treads.

The outing of Cheney's daughter thread is a good example. So much controversy, so much passion, so many heart felt feelings about something we had nothing to do with made that thread go on and on and on. It was definitely on a nerve (at least for the Americans on these pages.)


There has to be some passion,

or just some sense of fun to make the thing go, that works too.

Check out the WA2K radio thread............ harmless and passionate.

Joe

Rjb I was joking, but you knew that right? ;-)

(Hey, I'm just a punk).

Boomerang - I was trying to get at that by asking this question, but I didnt really find many clear patterns ...

Instinctively tho, my feeling is that if you want a Politics thread to work, you'll generally have to work in some American angle (and preferably, one that will directly feed into the good/bad question about the Bush administration). Hot-button topics for Americans (abortion, guns, gays, Iraq, America vs Europe, Fox vs the alphabet networks, the threat of the religious right, any of that) will also surely get you many responses - its just a pity that most of those issues are of such mindnumbing boredom and provincial irrelevance to the rest of the globe. Good/bad questions and generalised, none all too specific questions about larger-than-life topics (was Hitler really evil?, or somesuch) will also get you many more - and considerably less interesting - answers than something specific and concrete or something all too deep. But then theres always pleasant surprises, like I was pleasantly surprised by the responses to my Ukraine thread, or the two I did on Holland.