MY Forum Pet Peeve...

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QuickSilver

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Maybe I'm lazy... maybe it's petty... BUT I do have a pet "forum posting" peeve.. When I see an interesting thread title.. and I open it eagerly expecting a nice paragraph and premise... and all I see is a LINK..... nothing else.. I usually just close the thread..

Why don't people post an intro sentence, explaining the title ..... Post the link...... Then copy and paste a paragraph or two from the link (in quotes)? That way, people will know what the general gist of the thread.. It would make it easier to understand what the poster is trying to point out.. and what the poster intends that discussion to be about. Folks could then decide if the whole thing interests them enough to open the link and read the entire article.. Told you I was lazy... lol!!
 

I think it is nice to see a little explanation of why the link in question was important to the person who found it. Sort of gives you an idea of their perspective and it becomes a jumping off point for discussion.

(You know, I was just writing the above, and I had a sudden image of an old tv show that I saw decades ago, I think Roy Scheider was in, called Sea Quest I think. In it he was the commander of a submarine (?) and two of his crew discovered an 'empty city'. But on continued investigation it turned out that there were two sole residents left in it and they only communicated via radio's or the early version of computers or something like that. They were 'friends' but they never actually saw each other. This forum is like that isn't it? I remember at the time I thought it was so weird and yet here we are.....doing something pretty similar!)
 
Debby said:
I think it is nice to see a little explanation of why the link in question was important to the person who found it. Sort of gives you an idea of their perspective and it becomes a jumping off point for discussion.

(You know, I was just writing the above, and I had a sudden image of an old tv show that I saw decades ago, I think Roy Scheider was in, called Sea Quest I think. In it he was the commander of a submarine (?) and two of his crew discovered an 'empty city'. But on continued investigation it turned out that there were two sole residents left in it and they only communicated via radio's or the early version of computers or something like that. They were 'friends' but they never actually saw each other. This forum is like that isn't it? I remember at the time I thought it was so weird and yet here we are.....doing something pretty similar!)
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I remember Sea Quest. Yes, this is something like that. Back then computers were science fiction.
 
QuickSilver said:
Why don't people post an intro sentence, explaining the title ..... Post the link...... Then copy and paste a paragraph or two from the link (in quotes)? That way, people will know what the general gist of the thread.. It would make it easier to understand what the poster is trying to point out.. and what the poster intends that discussion to be about. Folks could then decide if the whole thing interests them enough to open the link and read the entire article..
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That's exactly what I expected too. When I see a post with nothing but a link, I will add one or two photographs from the original source, I only do this with the first post though.
 
Why don't people fill in their profile and say where they are? These same people post questions about communities, laws, climate, etc, but they won't say where they are.

We don't need their street address, but city, state, country are pertinent.
 
Manatee said:
Why don't people fill in their profile and say where they are? These same people post questions about communities, laws, climate, etc, but they won't say where they are.

We don't need their street address, but city, state, country are pertinent.
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I TOTALLY agree with you. I don't care about the rules; if a member can't reveal at LEAST their GENERAL
location, I have little interest in conversing with them.
 
I think people get really skittish about revealing too much on line for fear of ____________________ (fill in the blank)...

I for one had a very bad experience of an online discourse being carried into real life and it did some damage to my family that has never been resolved... SO I understand the hesitance.
 
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