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Post by Eppy on Jun 8, 2008 17:48:46 GMT -5
Why there are so many registered users who don't post? I find that really strange, registering & having a profile but never posting or joining in discussions Anyone else find this odd?
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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Jun 8, 2008 18:14:12 GMT -5
Some people just register to have full acess to the content of the boards...they're probably convinced that we have secret and very important conversations here, or probably that we hold the key to the fountain of youth... ;D
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Post by Nene on Jun 8, 2008 20:05:26 GMT -5
^That's one thing. Some boards will have parts of it locked to members or to members with an X amount of posts.
I know a few skating boards will lock themselves to members during the season. One even goes as far as having a membership fee for certain areas of the board during the season. Once the season is over they open up.
Another thing is that some people will register and forget. Others will register thinking they want to post and never get the courage to jump into an established group of people. Then there are those who register, post, and then disappear. Of course the reasons could go on and on.
I've got maybe a couple boards that I've registered for and decided I wasn't interested in.
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Post by scarlet on Jun 9, 2008 7:05:43 GMT -5
At one point we had a lot of the DMF board locked to non-members (we'd had spam issues) so people had to register to look and then once they looked they didn't ever post. Also, people's lives and interests change, so they register and post once or twice and then never post again. I know I've registered a couple of places and not posted more than a couple of times.
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Post by playnerd94 on Jun 9, 2008 8:30:32 GMT -5
I've got the answer: MUSICAL THEATRE POSERS!They can go around acting like they know everything about theatre, and now they can even say that they're members of a message board devoted to theatre, even if they don't post anything. Gosh, the lengths people will go just to pretend to be as cool as us.
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Post by scarlet on Jun 9, 2008 8:41:33 GMT -5
I've got the answer: MUSICAL THEATRE POSERS!They can go around acting like they know everything about theatre, and now they can even say that they're members of a message board devoted to theatre, even if they don't post anything. Gosh, the lengths people will go just to pretend to be as cool as us. *giggle*
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Post by playnerd94 on Jun 10, 2008 10:55:21 GMT -5
Thanks for the giggle, scarlet.
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Post by scarlet on Jun 10, 2008 11:33:45 GMT -5
Thanks for the giggle, scarlet. No, thank you! I needed a good giggle at the moment. And hopefully you know that I giggle in agreement to what you said.
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Post by dorothyzbornakfan on Jun 10, 2008 13:25:04 GMT -5
Oh I haven't been on in a while due to work craziness but lately I'm fine.
My guess is that people forgets passwords(it happens believe me...), or just spammers(or pricks), looking for a good time.
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Post by playnerd94 on Jun 10, 2008 14:45:57 GMT -5
Thanks for the giggle, scarlet. No, thank you! I needed a good giggle at the moment. And hopefully you know that I giggle in agreement to what you said. Yes, I do know that to be an agreement giggle.
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Post by Svetlana on Mar 29, 2009 15:43:29 GMT -5
Oh I haven't been on in a while due to work craziness but lately I'm fine. My guess is that people forgets passwords(it happens believe me...), or just spammers(or pricks), looking for a good time. That's my guess too.
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Post by gerald on Sept 28, 2009 3:21:57 GMT -5
Ok, I take this question for me.... and I'm going to give you some clues : When I joined this forum, there were a lot of subjects in discussion, not only about "Elisabeth", "Tanz der Vampire" or "Phantom" ! I got the feeling these are the only topics that bring answers and contributions...May be I'm wrong but several times I have posted topics about other subjects and...nothing ! Not a word ! So I gave up ! Many of the contributors are obviously competent and pertinent but - and once more, maybe I'm wrong - too definitive in their opinion : "I know THE truth and whoever think anotherway is a fool". No discussion of amateurs anymore, but debates between specialists ! Last point : on a forum, in my opinion, you can say what you feel - in the limit of decency of course - and write you don't like something even if somebody else appreciate it ! Once I said i don't like Idina Manzel's voice and I got back very sour replies ! These are the reasons I don't collaborate more to this forum. Maybe I have responsabilities too : I may not be clear enough when I'm using irony but I'm never reluctant to admit my errors... Tell me I'm wrong and all of this is misunderstanding and I'll be back with great pleasure !
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Post by Valancy on Sept 28, 2009 9:31:42 GMT -5
Last point : on a forum, in my opinion, you can say what you feel - in the limit of decency of course - and write you don't like something even if somebody else appreciate it ! But of course - and the other part of it is that then you just have to deal with it when people don't agree with you. If you say you don't like Idina Menzel's voice, people who love her are likely to disagree and say so (for the record, I don't like her voice either). I think that unless people are downright rude, getting disagreeing replies is something you have to be prepared to if you want to discuss on forums. Of course sometimes people are oversensitive about their own favourites or too rude and loud about what they don't like, and sometimes things get heated and uncomfortable. It's the nature of any online musical forums. But I feel that here at least we have a wide range of opinions that have their defendants. Years ago when I started going on musical forums I felt that the "approved opinions" were a lot more narrow and people hardly dared to say if they didn't have the same opinion as the one true approved opinion. Of course, what do I know - maybe there are lots of silent users who don't dare to post because their opinions get trampled on constantly and don't have any defenders among the "loudest" users (I'm aware that I am a rather loud user myself ), and I just don't realise that because I don't happen to share those opinions and so don't notice it. But I don't think this place is too bad as far as online forums go. Any forum is mainly a sum of its users. But of course something can also be done with clearer rules of how one can discuss something and how one can't. I must say I have often wished for such more detailed rules myself, because things have gotten heated and beyond many people's comfort levels on occasion. But as for people not posting replies to your replies - this may just be because there don't happen to be any people around who are interested in the topic you posted about, or they have talked about it more than they wanted to, and this can't really be helped. The forum is a place for people have discussion they find interesting and fun, so if nobody else wants to talk about a certain subject, there's not much one can do about that. It doesn't mean that your subject or post is not boring, just that it doesn't happen to interest those who are willing (and have time) to talk about it. Or everyone just feels they've got nothing to add. As for why certain topics get a lot of replies and others don't, it's usually because those are the topics that the most active forum members are interested in and that there's something to discuss about (Elisabeth, for example, is a really fruitful discussion ground because there are lots of levels in the musical, many different productions where things are done differently, and always new productions coming up, and it's big and recent so many people have also seen it live). It doesn't mean that the discussion should be confined to those topics. It just means those are by nature the most discussed topics because that's where many people have lots to say. And because I have a hunch (correct or not) I may be one of the people you blame for "debates between specialists, not amateurs" - I do think all/most of us here are amateurs, but some of us can't help that we get rather deep into something that we love and like to analyse it in lots of detail. And if there are some other people around who also like to discuss in detail, it doesn't occur to us to tone down our discussion to a level accessible to all. As for being definitive about our opinions, I at least can be persuaded by a good argument or new experiences and have changed my opinions countless times, but well, I usually have given my opinions a lot of thought and can present reasons for them. And I prefer to present those reasons so that other people can follow me and decide if I'm right or not, rather than just saying "I like this / I don't like that" and leaving it at that. In my opinion the latter doesn't make for very interesting or fruitful forum discussions. I'm sorry if being thoughtful and detailed intimidates people, but I don't mean it like that, and I doubt most other people who are that way do either... In short, I can only speak for myself but I at least think it's great to have different kinds of people discussing different things and presenting different opinions, and newbies shouldn't be too scared if some of us are super-obsessive and therefore detailed and confident about what we think, or like to explain our thoughts in multiple paragraphs instead of two sentences. (This post being a case in point...)
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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Sept 28, 2009 13:08:20 GMT -5
^ This
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Post by Nene on Sept 28, 2009 15:45:59 GMT -5
^Agreed.
I'm the one with the Idina comment, though I merely stated that I liked her in certain things. I think my comment was misunderstood. There was nothing sour intended about my reply and I am sorry it came across that way.
So to add, I think people just don't post because they misinterpret something. It happens among people who speak the same native languages, so a place like this where so many people are not native English speakers will have plenty of comments that are taken the wrong way.
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