do you respond to a thread in the hope someone will respond to you?

[YellowDaisy]

i do that alot actually. usually when i post in someone elses thread, i have the hope that someone is going to respond to my post, and say that i gave a good answer or something like that. that's most of the reason why i respond to people threads.

[Hannah]

Sometimes I like to try and poke people into realizing things without noticing I was poking them.

Sometimes it's just to visit and try to meet new friends, I've got a friends list with people on it with whom I've talked very little trans stuff but lots of cookin or animals.

Sometimes we just need that validation, yes, and that's why it's kind of important to tell people what you're thinking because they can't read our minds, especially through miles and miles of wire.

This is a nice thread     

[YellowDaisy]

Sometimes I like to try and poke people into realizing things without noticing I was poking them.

Sometimes it's just to visit and try to meet new friends, I've got a friends list with people on it with whom I've talked very little trans stuff but lots of cookin or animals.

Sometimes we just need that validation, yes, and that's why it's kind of important to tell people what you're thinking because they can't read our minds, especially through miles and miles of wire.

This is a nice thread 

thank you, i like being told that

[Janet_Girl]

I usually will look into a thread that catches my interest.  And I respond if I feel I can contribute to the thread, or if I have a definite opinion on the subject. 
If the subject is controversial I will try to stay out of it to watch it.      But usually someone will say something that I have to respond to.



Hugs and Love
Janet

[Hannah]

Oh I try to read everything, at least briefly. If it's stupid or just horribly written I'll move on, but the idea of this thing we're doing here is to be a support resource and part of that means being heard. I do admit there's certain people who I will read stuff from first if I'm pressed for time, but yeah I'll get to everything eventually.

[lisagurl]

I plant seeds of thought I do not care if anyone responds or not.  I rather that it makes them think not write.

[Megan]

I'm the opposite, I make threads to have people respond to me, and I am thread hog (in this forum I am not so much, but in others I just make threads, and I'm not doing it to spam but more because I feel like I want to have a direct communication).

I respond in threads though because I want to contribute myself into it, and if it's interesting. Some threads don't interest me, or I don't have enough knowledge to do any value for it, so I'll just read it.

But I just love creating threads. If I am on the computer I cannot go without making a thread in at least one of my favorite forums (I participate in about 3 forums on and off at any given moment, sometimes I'll just leave from a forum since I gain everything I need from it or it is just plain nonactive).

[Luna!]

I always worry that somehow someone will take offense to something I've said, or think "That's a stupid post".
I read nearly everything that catches my eye, but only respond to a few for fear of inconveniencing someone. That's pretty much how I operate IRL too... 

[Alyssa M.]

You're just trying to get people to respond to this thread. Well, I won't have it!




Wait ... wut?

[jenga]

Dear NicoleFoxFan,
I am responding to this thread in the hopes that you will see my posting and respond to it in a nice and thoughtful manner.

Yours,
Jenga

[heatherrose]

Huh...What? Did someone say somethin'?

[Lachlann]

Depends. Sometimes I'll say something and not care what the responses are so I never check up on it.

Sometimes I want to see what people have to say in response.

[heatherrose]

At first I envisioned this as a medium for pseudo conversation.
Now, I realize that it is actually more like a bridge abutment for
random intellectual graphiti artists and group think territorial tagging.
While I still post when I feel I can help someone or I need support,
mostly I use this as a "public journal" of sorts which I review
on occasion. It helps me to reflect on where I have been
which helps me to plot how to proceed from here.

[Cindy]

I think like most Mods I read most posts. I don't respond to the ones of no interest. But this is a support site and many times someone saying Hello gets me through the Day or the Night. So I try and do the same. In doing that I have had the wonderful pleasure of meeting people whom I count as my dearest friends. They are the ones who have brought me back from despair, cried with me. Hugged me. I love them in a very loving way.  And no Heather rose that doesn't mean I'll buy you a new truck (or is it a tractor over yonder ocean).

Hugs to All.
Nice post you should feel good about it.

Cindy

[jesse]

i read most posts and try to respond to the ones that interest me 
jessica

[noeleena]

Hi...
   I have quite a few friends around the world . & from here in n z .... its a matter of keeping in contact . as i m older than a good few here & other forums . i like to know how people ....are doing . in regards to thier life s . the changes . of cause
One of the details . is we have our own kids & grand kids  . so  i have a interest there . at 62 ...  thats a part of my .. our life . both Jos & i . really its very important .

      Many of what you all talk about is neat .   you may not think so .   like boring    .  hey if it s about you . then it s not . . i may not respond . all the time . yet . there are details . that interest me .
  The other ??  i dont respond to post s to get a reply . if i do & yes . some of you do . . that to me is .   you & i are real . & we can get to know each other . even if for thoes   in the u k . 12.000 miles away . then you over in the u s .
  then of cause in oz e . & many i have met . & spent time with . so yea it s important . to me having this contact ....

  just a kiwi  down under .
...noeleena...

[heatherrose]

And no Heather rose that doesn't mean I'll buy you a new truck
(or is it a tractor over yonder ocean)

That's alright Cindy, I wrote to Santa and told him if
he had thought that I have been a bad girl this year,
if he were to bring me a gold pinstriped, emerald green, W-900 Kenworth,
I would personally show him just how BAD I can be.

Truck, road-tractor, tractor-trailer, road train, lorry.
Manure by any other name, is still as fragrant.

[barbie]

a teaching from a zen book:

One evening, after a Dharma talk at the Cambridge Zen Center, a student asked Seung Sahn Soen-sa, "What is love?"

Soen-sa said, "I ask you: what is love?"

The student said, "I don't know."

Soen-sa said, "Now you ask me."

"What is love?"

"This is love."

The student was silent.

Soen-sa said, "You ask me: I ask you. This is love."

The student said, "I'm thinking about love between a man and a woman."

Soen-sa said, "You only understand one way. You must understand two ways."

My version of this story is:

I post it. You reply it. That is love.

Barbie~~

[LivingInGrey]

I sometimes don't respond to a thread in order to avoid possibly outing myself on something I'm not ready to talk about :p

[LordKAT]

I sometimes don't respond to a thread in order to avoid possibly outing myself on something I'm not ready to talk about :p

same