Author: Bella Freud
Date: 15:43:43 11/17/99
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On November 17, 1999 at 18:31:40, Eelco de Groot wrote: > >On November 17, 1999 at 17:20:07, Bella Freud wrote: > >>On November 17, 1999 at 17:02:47, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >> >>>On November 17, 1999 at 15:47:00, Bella Freud wrote: (serious snipping) >>> >>>>According to my detractors I have made ten or more posts which are >>>>"off-topic". >>> >>>this nr 11? :)) >> >>I think it is on-topic in relation to how things work here. >> >>> >>>> >>>>Effectively I got 0% response to my on-topic posts. >>>> >>> >>>Just stunned by your knowledge. Seriously: do we HAVE to react on all postings? >> >>Of course not. Actually I think one of my post-warning on-topic posts was >>replied to, so the on-topic hit-rate is 25%. >> >>I was just trying to demonstrate the the majority traffic is off-topic, unless >>you are a on-topic programmer, then the other programmers will talk. >> >>This is a feature of a hierarchical system. The high ones ignore the ones with >>no number or who are low down. Except for Bob. He replies to low or zero >>numbered posters sometimes. >> >> >>>If your stating something relevant, couldn't we just agree without reacting? I >>>will try to stick to that principle also..... hard.... hard.... I know, ouch, >>>torturing myself.... >>> >>>>There are also other posts that people ave written with my name in the title, >>> >>>Bellamania. I like that. >>>Maybe I should pretend to be a woman and post under a fake name. Who knows, >>>maybe that helps ;) >>> >>>>they all get replied to and lead to an off-topic thread about 15 posts long. I >>>>did not participate. >>> >>>I'm jealous. I try that all the time in RGCM with the subject "Fischer" but only >>>Pete G. reacts, branding me a troublemaker. Big deal. >>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Bella >>> >>>Keep posting on topic. Keep posting funny things off topic. Beat the critics. >>> >>>CYA >>> >>>Jeroen ;-} >> >>Thank you Jeroen. You are most amusing. >> >> >>Bella > >Not really in the mood for a funny post. But thanks for your on topic posts, >Bella. Please don't confuse the length of a thread or the traffic it generates >with its usefulness. I was not doing that. I was confusing it with its interest level for the members. I assume that when they respond they are interested and when they do not they are not. If some of your posts don't get responded to immediately or >not at all, I would see that as a good sign if I were you, in view of the >reactions you got to other posts that were responded to. Don't think we don't >appreciate your efforts to be on topic if we don't reply, at least not >immediately or only indirectly. Those flashes of insight take a little longer to >get trough to some of us. What? You mean they don't see everything immediately? All 35 of them? We must go slower until the realisation dawns. Bella > >Eelco
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