Starting or Posting in Threads but Then Getting Too Busy Offline

[Debater Slayer]

Do you ever start a thread or post in one intending to participate in it but get too busy offline to continue and then feel bad about that? I have had this happen quite a few times, and it always makes me feel a degree of guilt when I don't respond to someone after they have put thought and time into responding to my thread or post.

 

[Revoltingest]

Guilt?
What's that?

 

[Orbit]

Do you ever start a thread or post in one intending to participate in it but get too busy offline to continue and then feel bad about that? I have had this happen quite a few times, and it always makes me feel a degree of guilt when I don't respond to someone after they have put thought and time into responding to my thread or post.

This is exactly why I don't post that much.

 

[Debater Slayer]

Guilt?
What's that?

230,000 more posts and I'll tell you.

 

[Debater Slayer]

This is exactly why I don't post that much.

I enjoy the discussions and have learned more about other perspectives through them, though. I don't want to just stop posting, but I also don't enjoy it when the situation in the OP happens, so I can see where you're coming from.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Do you ever start a thread or post in one intending to participate in it but get too busy offline to continue and then feel bad about that? I have had this happen quite a few times, and it always makes me feel a degree of guilt when I don't respond to someone after they have put thought and time into responding to my thread or post.

Not so much "too busy", for me.... more that sometimes I'll start a thread where I ask Abrahamics questions I have, and the discussion and debate will flow and I'll get answers along the way, but then I'll never respond to it again because some of the lines of thinking expressed in the thread as the conversation takes on a life of its own, I don't know where to start with, although, it's not even a matter of simple agreement or disagreement, more a large difference in worldviews. Then I feel bad for not responding, but I also don't want to force myself to write something as it could come off unnatural. I'm thinking that next time, maybe I'll just make a post a few pages in saying "Thanks for the responses so far, and those to come."

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Do you ever start a thread or post in one intending to participate in it but get too busy offline to continue and then feel bad about that? I have had this happen quite a few times, and it always makes me feel a degree of guilt when I don't respond to someone after they have put thought and time into responding to my thread or post.

It happens, yup.
I just try to take the long view. Overall I think I add some level of value (or fools comedy) to most threads I'm in, so if I drop the ball occasionally...well...I'm only human. For now. Once I ascend, all bets are off.

 

[anna.]

Do you ever start a thread or post in one intending to participate in it but get too busy offline to continue and then feel bad about that? I have had this happen quite a few times, and it always makes me feel a degree of guilt when I don't respond to someone after they have put thought and time into responding to my thread or post.

I'm always happy when someone takes the time to respond to my thread since most of them never get off the ground.

Seriously, though, I do know that feeling of not being to hold up my end of the conversation for one reason or another. Maybe just tell the poster you appreciate the time they put into their comment and you hope to get back to it at some point? And then don't beat yourself up.

 

[Callisto]

Guilt?
What's that?

Ain't that when you cover sumthin in gold leaf?

 

[Revoltingest]

Ain't that when you cover sumthin in gold leaf?

That must be what the Guilted Age is about.

 

[SomeRandom]

Do you ever start a thread or post in one intending to participate in it but get too busy offline to continue and then feel bad about that? I have had this happen quite a few times, and it always makes me feel a degree of guilt when I don't respond to someone after they have put thought and time into responding to my thread or post.

Lol me in a nutshell these days.
I tell myself I’ll participate then I’ll get distracted or straight up forget to respond and then I’ll feel bad once I realise later. Only to feel too awkward to reply lol
Sometimes just want a day to binge watch my geek stuff lol
Right now I’m in a DC mood

 

[Jimmy]

Do you ever start a thread or post in one intending to participate in it but get too busy offline to continue and then feel bad about that? I have had this happen quite a few times, and it always makes me feel a degree of guilt when I don't respond to someone after they have put thought and time into responding to my thread or post.

I wouldn’t fret.

 

[Brickjectivity]

I have zero control of a thread. I can only be responsible for what I post, so I don't have concerns. Some threads get very long and full of spurious material.

 

[JustGeorge]

I have zero control of a thread. I can only be responsible for what I post, so I don't have concerns. Some threads get very long and full of spurious material.

I always hate when I have to leave my own thread because of what it morphs into.

I guess I don't have to, but when I create a thread about egg recipes, and it ends up getting into carpenter ant rights... meh. Better to just go.

 

[Secret Chief]

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[Secret Chief]

I always hate when I have to leave my own thread because of what it morphs into.

I guess I don't have to, but when I create a thread about egg recipes, and it ends up getting into carpenter ant rights... meh. Better to just go.

Sorry I did that; ants fascinate me.

 

[Viker]

It happens too often with me. There's times when I am about to make the post of the decade then......a dog barks or an employee calls or worse.

 

[JustGeorge]

Sorry I did that; ants fascinate me.

Yeah, me too... but I don't want them in my food.

 

[Secret Chief]

Yeah, me too... but I don't want them in my food.

Great source of protein.

 

[JustGeorge]

Great source of protein.

I don't consider them vegetarian.