General Chat

Susan with numbers it was not said for you at all !! :-D :-D

Edit...people hurt in different ways, mainly because we are all different people ;-)

helloooooooo all

i really do like the boards most of the time


but


now and again some people are very rude when sometimes you are only asking a question

and it does put people off

happened to me not long ago and was thinking of leaving gr i think if it wasnt for mersey i would of done

thanks mersey :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D <3

Was that the chat board or the other ones?

Susan sometimes ignores me ( edit which is fine I don't take it personally ;-) ) I sometimes don't post on Susan's threads:-) For one thing I can't do the late nights I used to somehow, I remember still being on here till 2 or 3 in the mornings about 6 years ago :-0

Another thing is of course that ALL the boards are quieter than they used to be, newbies who might have found their way to General from FA etc in the past, as I did, are now in short supply.

cant remember which board it was
but i was quite upset about it

but do you know what i dont care what people think or say now

i like to come on here so i will and to those who are rude :-P

I remember When Daff, Michelle long clouds and myself used to have a thread.....Michelle was from NZ, Daff went to bed before 11 and I was awake half the night, so we all posted, mostly at different times..Oh yes, Liz popped on sometimes too...Well....Not one of us acknowledged much of what the other wrote.....we were deliberately ignorant and if anyone read the thread I am sure they must have thought we were mad.....in fact many a person popped on and we all ignored each other together......I miss my mate Daff She was as daft as a brush and I don't think I have ever laughed like a drain since :-(

Because I'm around more in the UK evening and night ............ I find I more often than not post, but get very little acknowledgement

That's OK

it happens


In fact, it's happened to me almost the whole time I've been on GR ............. although there did used to be far more people around in the middle of the night.

There are almost no overseas people posting now :-(



as far as rudery ....................... I think on many occasions, it isn't actually someone being rude, as the fact that the written word sometimes sounds more stern and rude than when someone speaks the same words


in other words .............. the internet is missing those cues that we get from facial and bodily expressions



plus, I think that sometimes people are being more "delicate" .......... they're taking offense where no offense is meant!

I think that I do know the thread that upset littlelegs ........

........... and it was more a case of someone being exasperated by another free offer on another site when the site was barely capable of handling the members, let alone hundreds of free trials ........ as demonstrated only a few weeks before.

that exasperation was expressed ....... and caused some upset.


there was actually something to be said for both sides.



plus ......... let's think twice before posting. :-)

Tell you what Sylvia......you start up another Nighthawks thread......you remember?.....like the one that anyone who was awake could come on and chat....even if no-one else was about....a thread to hold the night time people together :-D

I am sure there are still many people who cannot sleep this side of the pond who would like to see if anyone else was awake.....take the loneliness off the night, so to speak ..

I'm often awake but whereas in the past I was in a bungalow and could wander back to the pc when i couldn't sleep now it means coming downstairs and disturbing the cat :-D

I used to add to more threads during my nightly sojourns here and then find new threads had started up in the mornings and no one read my new thread or answered my comment, as if they had started a fresh 'page' and I was invisible.

Over the past months I have had a lot going on so haven't had as much time to be here during the night and find I can't keep up with all the regular threads, so just add to a few that catch my eye.

It's not cos I don't care any more, just need more hours in the day (or night)

Lizx