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16 Days Ago......an observation.

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Apart from classics like "3 Good Things", and topics like the British weather, aka "Batten down the hatches", and [shudder] Video games and generic (but more than worthy) "What drinks do you drink?".....I observe that an obscure bot-hunting thread has received more responses than any other here.........for over two weeks (16 days.)  This is NOT a good observation to make!

What do YOU think needs to happen here, to keep things rolling?...or at least interesting.....for any genuine human autist here (or who find themselves here).....all of whom I presume will simply want to be in personal contact with one another here?

Are my presumptions wrong?

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  • It is getting harder to have conversations on here with situations where people will throw the toys out the pramb and cry bullying if you do something as simple as fact check them when they post a blatant lie.

    I've certainly reduced my participation.

    The bots are going to be pretty active as they move from digesting information about autism to actively seeking engagement and responses to flesh out their understanding.

    Maybe it's a good thing to educate them - maybe not but trying to guess is someone is a bot or just a maladjusted human is difficult.

    Maybe the bots will take all our distilled wisdom and actualy make a better friend for those lonely autists than other autists could.

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  • It is getting harder to have conversations on here with situations where people will throw the toys out the pramb and cry bullying if you do something as simple as fact check them when they post a blatant lie.

    I've certainly reduced my participation.

    The bots are going to be pretty active as they move from digesting information about autism to actively seeking engagement and responses to flesh out their understanding.

    Maybe it's a good thing to educate them - maybe not but trying to guess is someone is a bot or just a maladjusted human is difficult.

    Maybe the bots will take all our distilled wisdom and actualy make a better friend for those lonely autists than other autists could.

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  • in reply to Iain
    Iain said:
    Maybe the bots will take all our distilled wisdom and actualy make a better friend for those lonely autists than other autists could.

    I find that thought rather poignant.

  • in reply to Iain

    I agree Iain, it's getting harder and harder to actually discuss anything at all, I sometimes wonder if I said the sun was shining, would I get a load of people arguing with me that it wasn't and about the unfairness of it all and their god didn't make the sunshine for sinners like me.

    I find that there are a lot of thread killers, people who seem to actively monster certain threads and certain subjects.

    I've noticed lots of new people here over the last couple of weeks, and I wonder how many of them are real people and who are bots, sorry to those genuine human beings, but I'm very wary when loads of new people suddenly appear, especially after a so called soft ware upgrade.

    I like meatier subjects, politics, religion, history etc, I don't watch you-tube, do social media, games or so many of the other things so many people seem to do, there's nothing wrong with those things, they just don't interest me.

    Some things that I think would make the site better are no really old posts, I think this could be achieved by not having a list of previous on a related subject popping up when you start to write a new thread.

    I'd like a space for us older latelings to discuss things.

    I'd like people not to be so afraid of contovercy, but not to monster threads either, to discuss rather than just make statements and to actually reply to any questions other poster have. Not all questions are meant to be hostile, many of us just want to understand the point of view of another and engage creatively with them.

  • in reply to Iain

    All valid points and ponderences.