Published on 12, July, 2020
I am new to this WHOLE "Internet/post/thread/blog" business... but I am NOT new to being able to write lucidly or how to use computers at all. NAS gives some "rules" but they are not all that clear. Mostly they say that you should do things which 'are okay as if the entire affair were RATED UNDER 15 if it were a classified as a movie'. But AUTISTIC persons like me make mistakes in "INTERNET-MANNER" without realising it... and so this "thread" or whatever invites rules CLARIFYING anything. I hope anyone understands, and "posts" something helpful. For examples: One *not* stated rule seems to be: DO NOT WRITE IN CAPITAL LETTERS! But there seems to be no other way to emphasise certain words, e.g. no ITALLICS are available.Another thing I have noticed is that people are very quick to tap the "unlike" button, but are much less likely to tap the "like" button, even in giving a genuine "Thank You", and yet all "views" are counted anyway.Lastly, on some devices, "hints and tips" flashes up and then disappears so fast, that it is as if it is only there to satisfy "legal reasons" rather than to be helpful to anyone... ...I also attempt to start this "thread/blog" in apology at anyone I have so far "offended" but I don't know WHY OR HOW I did so! Thus I also appreciate feedback about "understanding" or "hate" in general - for "AUTISTIC people on the Internet" ONLY (not concerning society in general, please)... For even here, on NAS, there seems to be no-place where Autistic Adults THEMSELVES have a forum... or for those "Autistic 'children' who know how to program a computer"...?
Didn't expect to post this, but it is yet another example of "issues": "[" and "]" divide the whole of the part actually copied AS TEXT. (I have a "snapshot" of the screen, but did not want to start along such lines, since "text" is hard enough for some of us to "post" already. If I can, then I shall try to "post" the "snapshot" if anyone asks.)
[18 Oct 2017 ElephantInTheRoomElephantInTheRoom in HomeAUTISTIC PEOPLE ON THE (N.A.S.) INTERNET, AND "HOW-TO" USE IT.Disallowed Cynosure replied:"Hi" in reply to your "EMAILS" at me, which don't show up on this website, but "EMAILing" brings up many other "issues" of the sort over which I began this "thread/forum"... This is what I did & I still do. Believe it or not, I have *never* used "Emailing software" to send an "Email" in my entire life, never. The device I use to "SetUp" all of this Internet stuff is an iPOD, which can "receive", yet has no "phone number". Upon this little fellow I gain any "messages", "notifications", "updates... (with 14 other replies)Like 22 days ago ]
... There were also "buttons" after which, I can only describe as: Like [ThumbsUp Icon] 2 [Clock Icon] 2 days ago. [... Icon].If this makes sense, anyone should recognise it.
THE "ISSUES" here are this: "ElephantInTheRoom" shows up as the person I supposedly replied to... but I was actually replying to "NAS24896"!"14 other replies" ... really? Where?"22 days ago" - I only posted all of that YESTERDAY (i.e. about 2 hours ago)."[Clock Icon] 2 days ago" - Less than two hours, and contradicts it saying "22 days ago" as above.
The time of me POSTING this particular "issue" should register as around 02.30 (half-past-Two AM.). On 19th October. So... yet another "confusing" thing about "The Internet". ふっ.
This should show up as me replying to myself (!).If anyone didn't follow that 2.30AM post of 19th October there, then don't worry about that. I was attempting to describe a picture, and all of us know how that confusing *that* is. The point of the post was to describe something I saw, which made no sense. I repeat again:
...That was what I saw, and in this new post I was going to advise anyone to visit the "NAS Community Home Page" to see any errors for themselves... ...but as I post this now - the entire record of me writing that has disappeared from the entire HISTORY(!)... On rechecking the "Home" page again and again, that post history is still missing.
YET, for other people's posts, you MIGHT still see what I meant. Little errors such as: - "posted yesterday" ... "[clock icon] 22 days ago".- "This happened to me in November 20xx" ... but it is SAID to be posted in October of the same year.
Another new thread which is welcome (if it does not exist already), is one explaining what all of these [icons] are supposed to mean or what they indicate. I understand that it is different across computers, devices, times, etc. And that they may be "computer" errors... But as a possible (erratic) confusion, it is mentioned for the sake of this thread/topic: Some of us take all of this LITERALLY - we "misunderstand" or are confused - and we make errors over it.
Hi DC, sorry if it seems a silly question, but I'm a little confused. What are you actually trying to do? Why "emails"? Do you mean private messages on here? Are you trying to send them and it doesn't work? You don't need a email program for that or a phone number, but depending on someone's account settings you can usually only send private messages to someone you are friends with. Was that what you tried? To become friends with someone, and was that not working? Or had someone send you a friend request in order to be able to send you private messages, and you couldn't accept it (on your device, I mean)?
Try not too hard to understand the structure of this forum, it's not you being dumb, it's just a strange system and confuses everybody a bit. When replying to someone, perhaps address them (as you did), then it's clear anyway, even if the reply appears in the wrong place.
I'm sometimes getting a little confused with your quotation marks. At times you seem to use them to indicate that this is exactly how the button is called, o.k., I understand that, but often I have no idea. Sometimes people use them to indicate a sarcastic or not literal meaning but that doesn't seem to fit either. Like in the last sentence you wrote. Or is it a way of highlighting words? Think I would find it easier to read without a lot of highlighting because I'm focusing a lot on understanding the reason for highlighting (if that's what it's for). Others may have other preferences though. Don't worry too much about it, It's just my personal opinion/preference and may or may not be shared by anyone else (and even if others share it there is no law about it).
There are also only a few kind of laws here, other things are a matter of personal judgement which isn't always easy and is subjective and autism doesn't help with it. So you are certainly allowed several posts in a day, but say if you keep posting comment after comment and nobody has time to respond or you are not actually taking replies into consideration when posting then there can be a point where it gets too much and it starts to appear offensive, no matter what the content is. You haven't done that, so no worries. It's also allowed to deviate from the topic a bit, but if the deviation becomes the main topic of the thread then opening a new one is certainly the better option, otherwise it's a bit unfair to the original poster. That's exactly what you did (opening a new thread, I mean) - perfect.
Anyway, just trying to understand what you are having problems with.