On post-and-run topics

[Jaymes]

Does anyone else get annoyed with hit-and-run posts? There have been no few in the past by various members, and they seem to be cropping up again. Sometimes I get so irritated with them I could just SCREAM! I mean, hello, if you're going to post something controversial expect people to want you to reply! AUGH! :banghead3

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Often, I suspect that the author feels deeply about the topic, angry that it's seen as debatable, and frustrated the s/he cannot get others to see it as 'clearly' as s/he does.

 

[kreeden]

I'm afraid that I am bad for that . I don't mean to upset anyone , but I often have a hard time remembering them , and then finding them again . { I have gone to my list of posts to find them when I have the time } . So I apologize , and will try to keep better track .

 

[The Voice of Reason]

I could be wrong, Kreeden, but I don't think Jensa was referring to you in particular.

Jensa is referring to a habit that some members have, of posting a controversial topic in a transparent effort to prostelytize - then, when members with a dissenting view reply in the negative, the original poster disappears into the sunset, without defending his/her position.

An odious practice, to be sure - but the more often it happens, the less credibility that member has.

TVOR

 

[Jaymes]

TVOR's right--I wasn't referring to you at all, Kreeden. I haven't even noticed any posts where you've done anything similar to what I was ranting about... I have a bit of a bad habit of posting in threads and forgetting that I've done so, as well.

 

[CaptainXeroid]

I think the posts everyone is talking about are ones that take an extreme position, are long on rhetoric, and are short on substantive arguments. It's the intellectual equivalent of tossing a fake grenade into a crowded room and watching the people scramble for entertainment. Not good form, particularly since the thread starter often does not even intend to return to the thread.:bonk:

 

[Draka]

I don't post as often as I use to, and I am sorry about that, but I have noticed some of these threads and after reading a few posts in I can tell there's no use in even commenting because it would be useless to even address the thread starter in a lot of cases.

 

[Malus 12:9]

Tis why I do not start threads.

 

[michel]

I hope I'm not one of them too; I do, however make a stand and try to get my point across. I don't like 'letting go' of my bone - but as the subjects I often bring up have no valid proof, I'm always going to be batting on a sticky wicket.

 

[kreeden]

Thank you Jensa and TVOR for putting me at less . But I still apologize for sometimes losting track of where I post .

 

[jewscout]

def. something that gets on my nerves!:tsk:

 

[Prima]

I think the posters are sometimes afraid that those who can debate intelligently might *gasp* win them over! and then they'd have to do something like - oh my goodness - change their views!

People hate admitting that they're wrong, and some people are downright terrified of even the possibility that that might happen.

 

[Sunstone]

I thought I'd just post here, and then take off.

 

[stonestew]

or maybe they cant reply because their banned:areyoucra haha.

if your gonna live by the thread, be prepared to die by the thread:woohoo:

 

[Malus 12:9]

or maybe they cant reply because their banned:areyoucra haha.

Is your post invisible then Krypt?

Anyway, perhaps some people realise that the thread they started wasn't to their liking,
or decided it wasn't as good as a topic as thought. I know many thread ideas "come to mind" suddenly, but then the thread author usually looks back at it and says "Oh, I forgot all about that."