When you are the only person interested in a thread, no one is commenting or even just hitting the like button, maybe you ought a let it go.....
Dear Gurps,
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While I've often defended his frequent threads as thought provoking and sometimes necessary to keep the conversation going - kinda of agree with this one.
VERY LONG threads that consist of only your posts - and most of them either very long postings of Twitter feeds or long video - I just mark them read. I seriously just don't have time to LISTEN to something I can read faster, and I don't need overly long content when if I am interested, I can just go to a LINK should you provide one.
Original comments of course, are always welcome.
VERY LONG threads that consist of only your posts - and most of them either very long postings of Twitter feeds or long video - I just mark them read. I seriously just don't have time to LISTEN to something I can read faster, and I don't need overly long content when if I am interested, I can just go to a LINK should you provide one.
Original comments of course, are always welcome.
Simple as .... somethings do not require a conversation ... sure people could comment on the video or twix post - the post is for INFORMATION ... I read LOTS of Posts I NEVER COMMENT ON .... at best a ' thumbs up ' or laughing emoji
yeah some threads are LONG because the POINT of the the thread is a common topic .... like Trump Administration or America .... Democratic Operatives <--- you can follow malfeasance or corruption like DIE / Woke - Business / Gov / Police ... Threads about a particular politician like AOC , Wasserman-Shultz or Schumer ... etc or California / NYC or Blue States
A reader can see their history or corruption or stupidity
so its long threads where a theme can be followed or 10,000 different threads detailing each new news bit ...
Like Culture War ... random posts here and there it is very easy to MISS the Continued Progressive Attack on ' normal ' everyday Americans with the Woke, Queer or Race Swapping, Trans Agenda in Entertainment - Movies / TV / Movies / Music .... hell even advertising
I prefer those, because they're played out after about a dozen or so pages. You can only talk so much about the train crash in East Palestine or the Biden Trump debate - before moving on sensibly to something else.
By that time - the thread gets pushed down so it's effectively dead.
I do not prefer vaguely themed threads - I could just as well create a thread called "Trump" and try to re-direct every news story mentioning him to that thread, but it's too wide a net. Focused threads enable readers to discuss something relevant, specific and current before moving on to something else.
I'm usually on your side - but the very very long threads, I just typically mark them "read" and go on to something else.
I will proffer the dissenting opinion:
Gurps, I appreciate you keeping your obsessions to one thread and not posting them in all threads, which derails discussion and makes people lose interest.
My beef is you posting all the comments from your original social media embed, which wastes space and makes threads difficult to follow. If people wanted to read the comments, they'd go to the original source.
I don't want to put you on ignore because you frequently have something valuable to offer, but the flotsam is off-putting.
Gurps, I appreciate you keeping your obsessions to one thread and not posting them in all threads, which derails discussion and makes people lose interest.
My beef is you posting all the comments from your original social media embed, which wastes space and makes threads difficult to follow. If people wanted to read the comments, they'd go to the original source.
I don't want to put you on ignore because you frequently have something valuable to offer, but the flotsam is off-putting.
Clem72
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I clicked that button like 37 times. Doesn't do anything.
Who?When you are the only person interested in a thread, no one is commenting or even just hitting the like button, maybe you ought a let it go.....
My beef is you posting all the comments from your original social media embed, which wastes space and makes threads difficult to follow. If people wanted to read the comments, they'd go to the original source.
Fair Enough, sometimes the point is the comedy gold that comes from some leftist Mensa member posting something on Twix thinking they are all that an box of cookies getting bitched slapped back into reality
I completely agree, but it's too much and makes the threads hard to read. Perhaps just one or two of the best examples.....
Perhaps you should just mention that the comments are gold.
Sneakers
Just sneakin' around....
Whatever happened to the "just copy/post a line or short paragraph and a link to the original source" rule to avoid copyright infringement?
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I've had you on ignore, brought you back because what you post is sometimes very interesting/informative. Even if it doesn't interest me, I enjoy reading the back and forth.
But if no one is interested, maybe you should not post anything else to that thread.
Just my 2 cents.