Hogging the forums

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 SparklyLaughing

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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  • Sparkly,

    You should come and go as you please, as do I and all the others here. Some days I just read, other days I post.

    Remember, we are all Autistic and therefore should understand each other; each of us adds something to the conversations, and each of us learns from them.

    Keep on posting,

    Ben

  • To be honest Ben, that is what I tend to do... Come and go as I please.

    I have the main Community 'Home' page saved in a Favourites folder. Even when I'm hibernating and not active on the forums, I'll often visit the site (without signing in) just to keep myself up-to-date with what's happening. I have found that this can be useful for trying to determine the general mood of the forums, particularly when discussions between members have got rather heated and volatile.

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  • To be honest Ben, that is what I tend to do... Come and go as I please.

    I have the main Community 'Home' page saved in a Favourites folder. Even when I'm hibernating and not active on the forums, I'll often visit the site (without signing in) just to keep myself up-to-date with what's happening. I have found that this can be useful for trying to determine the general mood of the forums, particularly when discussions between members have got rather heated and volatile.

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