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....

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.

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

Obviously bog not big!

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 :-)

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?

Ye Gads I've kllled tons of threads!

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

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!

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!

As Bowlersarm said earlier...

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

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

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

maybe I am too whingey

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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