to ask if you sad when, after starting a topice, no one responds?

[ZenOfPetals]

I used to think that I was a good writer. But, since joining MN, I have to face the sad realisation that this is untrue. If I comment on a thread, it dies, and if I start a thread, no one answers! I give up. I know I am a good reader, I will stick to that from now on....

[thebody]

You need to start a controversial thread.

Disabled parking, breast v bottle, tree hugging attachment parent v rigid routine etc etc.

Posters who comment on others spelling and grammar are the smug superior types who got their heads flushed down the big at my school.

I am very commen.

[FarBetterNow]

Zen: I have bumped and then replied.
Poor kids.

[thebody]

Obviously bog not big!

[Eddings]

I'm the same have lurked for a couple of years, joined up last year & posted this year.

It was very personal to me but I guess a done to death topic as I got very few replies, so it wasnt at all successful & I still havent been able to decide to do the thing I was asking advice about..

Your thread has brought me out of hibernation..... we are not alone :-)

[ZenOfPetals]

Maybe controversy plus extreme typos would make an impact?

As a reader of MN, please critique- what did I do wrong with my earlier thread?

[Shakey1500]

Ye Gads I've kllled tons of threads!

[ZenOfPetals]

Maybe people read my threads, but don't answer. Or maybe the titles are so bad no one reads them!

Yes, Eddings, I wondered if my choice of topics were overdone. It's just if a query/ topic is important to you, it is natural to think it will be at least interesting to other people

[maddening]

I am a fellow thread killer - I look in my I'm on section and am often the last post. Sorry if I have killed your thread!

[ZenOfPetals]

I am so insecure about posting that, after having created this thread, I noticed the BIG typos, so asked to have it removed. Now, I have asked for it to not be removed, as some of you kind respondents may think you killed it!

[ZenOfPetals]

As Bowlersarm said earlier...

[Eddings]

I did think I should have lied in my title....

child space parking wars & should I take my child out with the pox are done to death but still often get pages of replies

[ZenOfPetals]

but now, someone has asked what should they order from chinese, and that topic might run for weeks

[ZenOfPetals]

while weeks ago, I started one titled "Inspired by National Geographic" which I actually considered quite deep and inspired- look at it for an example of a thread failure

[ZenOfPetals]

maybe I am too whingey

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

It's the chortle-chortle Mallory Towers ones that get me.

It's an Enid Blyton Story about a girls' boarding school (AFAIK, I;ve never actually read it) written about 50 years ago.
But people post in all seriousness (but tongue in cheek serious IYSWIM)

My DD doesn;t even read them.

[ZenOfPetals]

Yes, it is mysterious- what people respond to. Although, sometimes I read one that could be so serious and important that I feel scared to reply- maybe I won't be sensitive enough, or knowledgeable enough- to contribute

[ZenOfPetals]

One post, I mean. Not one Mallory Towers, never read them

[MiniTheMinx]

I have just seen and responded on your other thread.......it's almost certainly dead now

[ZenOfPetals]

Thanks, Mini. We shall see. What do you think was wrong with that thread, and the National Geographic one, to start with?

[marjproops]

lol I was thinking of starting a thread about this very thing!

Ive started a couple that went nowhere and others where it snowballed.

Ive seen some threads with maybe 2 posters and thats it.

[MiniTheMinx]

Oh I haven't seen the national geo one. I'll take a look.

[MiniTheMinx]

Maybe we should mount a campaign to respond on all the ignored threads.......spread a little happiness.