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Hogging the forums

Sporadic Sparkly

Please, please tell me I'm being paranoid... but only if you actually think that I am...

During the early days of being a newbie in the NAS Community, I was fairly active in the forums. Back then, I think I was a daily visitor and would literally spend hours at a time here.

For a whole host of different reasons, I then found that my visits were less frequent. Sometimes I would pop my head in for a flying visit that lasted a matter of minutes, and sometimes I would stick around a while longer.

Okay Sparkly, stop beating around the bush and get to the point!

For the first time in a very long time, I have been rather active on these forums. At this precise moment, I think it must have been a good 12 hours since I signed in, and I feel somewhat embarrassed.

Why?

Because when I look at the main forum pages, there are rather a lot of discussions where the last person to comment has been me, thus resulting in causing me to feel as though I've been hogging the forums.

I imagine some of the regular crowd signing in and thinking, "Flipping Heck! Is Sparkly turning into her mother and suffering from a bad case of verbal diarrhea? She's barely said a word for weeks on end, and now she won't stop talking!"

There are private conversations amongst the regular crowd... "Hey, just to let you know that Sparkly's active. If you attempt to engage her in conversation, there's a good chance that you will struggle to get a word in edgeways."

Sparkly finds herself thinking if this is what currently hibernating member Steven meant when he once spoke about The Curse of Sparkly. Laughing

For the record, this post of mine isn't intended to be taken seriously. Although I do feel as though I've been hogging the forums during the past however many hours, I'm not going to lose sleep worrying myself into an anxious state about it. However, if any of you feel compelled to tell me that I am not being paranoid, then please feel free to form an orderly queue. Yes, I'm joking, which is something I've not really done on these forums for quite some time.

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  • Posting for the first time in a good while to say that you are definitely just being paranoid, and speaking for myself (and  echoing many others) I always find your posts compelling to read, and really interesting. You often start fun threads, or candid ones, and both bring a lot to the spirit and balance of this community. 

    I personally feel very comforted by those who stick around - even if intermittently - and become reassuring presences on the forum who are generous enough to share, over time, what's going on in their lives - ups and downs, all that. You're definitely one of the people foremost in my mind when I think of that sense of consoling continuity that keeps me coming back. 

    Though it's always lovely to see new members too, each of whom could potentially stick around... and maybe *because* they see regular established posters like yourself being comfortable and at home enough to ebb and flow, or just flow...

  • in reply to Shardovan

    P.S. I know I have been through phases of posting intensively, and I'd hate to seem unaware of that - but whenever I've started to apologise for that some lovely people here have told me that it's never been a problem.  So, my post above is 'paying it forward' so to speak. 

  • in reply to Shardovan

    Thank you for your lovely comments Shardovan.

    I must confess that sometimes I have posted things in the forums that I've later revisited, and I've found myself cringing at what I've said. Not in a way that causes me major anxiety, but enough to cause me to roll my eyes and facepalm, and then have a jolly good laugh at myself. Laughing

    It has to be said that I feel it is for others to decide what it is that I bring to this community, but I suppose I try to play to my strengths. I know I'm not so good with what I consider to be some of the more intellectual and academic discussions, or what I perceive to be heavy and deeply serious discussions, especially if I'm not feeling in a particularly good place myself.

    Anyway, it's really wonderful to see you again in the forums, even if it is only a brief visit. Whilst we all have our own reasons for going into hibernation mode, there is something so lovely and reassuring when regular members return.

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  • in reply to Shardovan

    Thank you for your lovely comments Shardovan.

    I must confess that sometimes I have posted things in the forums that I've later revisited, and I've found myself cringing at what I've said. Not in a way that causes me major anxiety, but enough to cause me to roll my eyes and facepalm, and then have a jolly good laugh at myself. Laughing

    It has to be said that I feel it is for others to decide what it is that I bring to this community, but I suppose I try to play to my strengths. I know I'm not so good with what I consider to be some of the more intellectual and academic discussions, or what I perceive to be heavy and deeply serious discussions, especially if I'm not feeling in a particularly good place myself.

    Anyway, it's really wonderful to see you again in the forums, even if it is only a brief visit. Whilst we all have our own reasons for going into hibernation mode, there is something so lovely and reassuring when regular members return.

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