Have you ever posted to a thread and felt like your comment was skipped over or ignored? I have and sometimes it makes me wonder "Why did I bother to say anything"? I know no one has the intention to disregard another persons comment and we can't comment on everybody's posting, but it does make you feel a little slighted. Posting is really conversing with others and I want to make a conscious effort to do better about this, as I know myself that I have been guilty of the very thing that bothers me.

OK -I'll post so you know that I read your thoughts. Sometimes people don't think alike and don't understand what one is trying to sasy.

yes we should all post. I have to agree with you on that. I have found new freinds with all of you and I look forward to seeing your comments all of the time! Its a little lonely out here in this country especially in the winter. But, with being on this sight I have made it through the lonely days with all of you!!!
Hugs!

I usually reply to a lot of the postings, but replying to all would mean that I never get any sewing done. I am always interested to read about others and their latest WIP!

I'm not trying to point fingers here, please don't misunderstand my intentions. I am only inviting thoughts about where this should go. If it offends anyone, that is not my purpose. However there are people out there who may sorta feel the same way about being overlooked and possibly we should consider them. I'm in no way being whiny about being overlooked.

You girls do a great job of posting on threads, and when the thread gets very long it's not always possible to read it entirely. Maybe one solution would be to get thicker skin. LOL!

Yes, I know exactly how you feel.

I'm sorry you feel that way. I'm sure it's not anyone's intention.
I'm here....
Another thing you might want to try if you can...go to chat. There's usually someone in there to talk to. Chat isn't always about quilting. We talk about everything and I DO MEAN EVERYTHING!!!

Your comment may not have been ignored it may have just been missed. There is so much information and so many postings on the board it's easy for something to get lost.

I TRY to get on every day and catch up on all the new threads. But with the recent surge of new members there are so many new topics and so many people posting, I have noticed that new threads can be found on page 2 and even page 3 of a category these days. A great thread can get buried quickly and someone could easily feel slighted. I think the sheer volume of topics is making it harder to comment on every one.

I do not think that anyone is intentionally ignoring anyone. I have opened a thread, read a question someone posted, noticed that the first two or three people who responded answered the question thoroughly, and so I move on to the next thread. I am not ignoring that thread or the author---I just have nothing to add. I would hope that the person who started the thread was happy with their answer and not feeling slighted.

i read alot of posts, comment rarely...I guess I'm guilty

Sometimes I don't post if there are 5 or so pages.. and sometimes I dont post because I dont have an answer to a question that is asked or as stated by others its not a subject I understand or maybe holds little interest? Then there are days I try to respond to as many as possible. I don't think its a respond only if its written by.. honestly I don't. I never look at who posted it just what the subject is. I am sorry you felt ignored. I wouldnt want anyone to feel that way and will see that I hit the posts more often that have few responses.

Please don't feel ignored! i alwasy feel bad when i don't catch all the new posters..introducing themselves! I post a picture once, and no comments on a board..and i think what happens is, if you are replying from your email, you don't see all the other posts..and may miss a post or a picture.
I am glad your here! I am glad to be here too! Kim

I have been real busy so I don't have time to reply to many, heck don't even have time to read many these days. I'm ready for a vacation! :lol:

With the great number of people we have now, many posts get pushed to the second or third page more quickly than they did a year ago. That can be a factor too. People may think that anything that is not on the first page is an older post.....

At times I feel ignored ---- but not on here! I have found that if someone has a question there is a reply rather quickly compared to other boards (non quilt related) over the years.

I love it here.

I do find that there is a lot of conversations going on and I don't get to all of them and don't post something to all of them. But I do know that you wonderful people are 'listening' and watching and we are all learning.

Keep up the good work and please don't let this get into a problem area. It's friendly here and I like it.

P.S. If I'm not on much for the next couple of days it's because of work schedule.

Me, too!

I've felt the same ignored or that my idea was a bummer cause no one said anything. I chalk it up to all of us being in the middle of a WIP....speaking of which, I need to get moving on my 15.
Hugs

I know that I don't post to every topic, but I try to pick one or two here & there. I'm also guilty of not reading every comment that goes w/posts... so many topics, so many quilts! I wanna do it all, see it all but alas I'd never leave the computer *giggles*

When I post to a thread, I generally try to refer my comment to the original question asked. I feel the thread belongs to the person who started it and try very hard not to lead the thread off on a tangent.

If I have no answer to the question, I generally don't comment. I just assume the person who started the thread is not going to want to read dozens of "I don't know" answers.

If a thread is a "Look at my new quilt" type of thing, I do try to say something positive about the project.

I never really feel ignored on this board. I've never started a thread that got no responses. I don't really expect 100's of answers to my questions. Generally, any one of the dozens of expert quilters on this board can answer my question and send me on my way.

I have no complaints about this board. The people are all wonderful and the information is incredible. I just wish a few of you were closer to me!

With more than 11,000 members here, it's impossible to read every single thread every single day. I'm sure no one intentionally overlooks any thread, there's just so much to read here!

Keep quilting, keep posting and definitely join the chat room!

Me, neither!

I too wish we had community quilters as part of this board. I've met one lady from a neighboring town, one I'm going to meet soon, BUT none here in my town from this board. When I first came here I felt ignored but that didn't last a month. This is the best group I've ever been in. I learn more here than I do with guild, trust me.

Hugs

I read more than I reply. I'm on PDA & go there more than on Main or Gen ChitChat. I go to Pics when I'm busy just to look. I don't mean to make anyone feel slighted & try not to feel slighted if others don't have time to reply to me. I'm bad to get off track if a subject starts out, then someone mentions something I don't know about (I'm very curious because I like to learn different things), so I'll ask not thinking about others are reading besides the author of the subject. Let me apologize. If there are a lot of answers already to the posters question or statement, I usu don't comment.

I'm sorry that has happened! I think on here you can assume other posts got your's bumped down the page so no one really seen it, or they just didn't have an answer. Everyone on here is so nice and friendly, I'm sure it didn't just get ignored.
If it ever happens again, just re-post it! :)
I read more than I post these days, just too much other going on in life right now.
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I learned never to take anything personal on forums or group postings. I usually forget about a post I make unless it pops up on the first page again.

Personally I don't feel ignored on this board. Sometimes I do in real life but never on this board.

I'm sorry that you feel that way. I wish I had the time to leave a comment on every post but there are to much and we have a real slow computer( we have only one ands it's an oldy)so I don't post al the time just some comments when I like something and not forget to react.

I really like it here. another one I felt left out but not here. Everyone is very friendly and helpful. I am glad I found this one.

You ladies are awesome and are the most helpful group of people. I agree this board is ideal when it comes to quilting and the like. You couldn't ask for any better group of people.

My thoughts were not necessarily about posting to a thread, but about posting on a thread and being ignored. Not always, but have you ever posted on a thread and felt skipped over or like your opinions, ideas, advice was totally ignored? There was never a mention or acknowledgement of it. Not that every post on a thread has to be talked about by everybody, but when it happens several times you begin to wonder why you bothered with the input.

Maybe I'm not making sense but I just wondered if others have had the same experience. And ladies I'm not bringing this up because it's just me. It is something I want to do better on because I know I am guilty of doing, the very same thing to others, that bothers me.

I have felt that way a couple of times. Once even wonderd if the word had gone out to "ingore" me. But I realize that it is impossible to read and respond to every post, I certainly can't. Also sometimes if you respond somewhere in the middle of a thread, people may not be interested enough in the thread to go back and check every posting that has come on since they last read it. Or they don't have time to read the entire thread before they make their post. I hardly check the PDA's because i don't have the time to "catch" up on what all is going on. My own PDA went nowhere, so to speak, so I havn't used it much.
There are a lot of wonderful people on here and I don't think anyone intentionally ignores us (though we may feel like it) There's just too much to see and do here!

I have to plead guilty as charged! lol I often read a post and start to reply, then realize that some has already got there before me and written it much more clearly than I ever could.This old brain doesnt work quite as quickly as it once did so I tend to not bother to reply!
I come on here most days just to see how you're all doing...I really must do more posting and less lurking! lol

Karen xx

I go in spurts- sometimes post a lot, but then think- shut up, you're only saying what others say. (It's that evil barb/good Barb girls on my shoulders).

I read a lot, but don't post as much. I try not ot ignore anyone at all, but sometimes we get in a fog.

P.S. I like your avatar- it's symbolic for all of us- apples, oranges, lemons, we're all different.

I am fairly new to this, I have looked for a long time but didn't register until last month. I guess I didn't realize we were supposed to post an answer to all replies. Sorry about that but it takes a lot of time and I do respond to a lot of them.

sure, it's happened to me. making my post look so out of place. i had Admin delete one in here for me once since I couldn't do that myself.
you're not alone. it happens.

I went to comment on a thread I started and found it on the 3rd or 4th page. There is just so much information and so many ideas that it is hard to keep up with all. If someone feels "ignored" please do not stop coming....just find your original posting and comment ...quoting the original. I did that the other day and got the answer to my question answered. Things just get buried or get off on a different tangent. Keep coming.

The board is pretty active and FAST! I know that I've seen posts pushed back on the 4th or 5th page that had one or two comments on it...I could see where those original posters might feel ignored...

I've also been guilty of not reading every page of comments...and therefore missing some comments that I probably shouldn't have...

All of that being said...it would be super nice if when we clicked on "recent topics" or "unread topics" if we got more than one page for them, like we do when we go to the individual sections of the board...is that something that's possible, or would it be cost prohibitive?

Sometimes - but one can always try again.

Sometimes it seems that anything I might have said has already been said several times by the time the post reaches page 5.

It seems like there are a lot more posts - just since the middle of last December.

Don't apologize, there is no way possible to be able to answer all posts!! We are not expected to look at and answer everything. It would consume your entire day every day to do that and we have sewing to do (and work and family and pets.....)

Here is what I have noticed:

I have posted and noticed that it depends on how many people post around the same time, but my post will end up on page two, three etc. I tend to read the posts on the first page and not go back. I will try to do that from now on.

I have found everyone here so helpful and friendly, I think that may be what has happened.

Please keep reading and posting....I am sure it was just a "busy posting time".

Margie :)

I don't respond sometimes because it's hard for me to express things. I can come across as sarcastic when I was just making a joke and someone took offense once. When talking in person it's easy to tell if someone's joking; difficult to do in print. I try to just comment if it's a straight forward: that's lovely or you did a good job. If it's general chitchat I usually don't join in so I don't offend anyone else. (I responded to you Lneal-a big step for me LOL!!)

There is so much going on with this board, I don't see how one could read or post on every thread. I know that I can't and I seriously think no one is out to hurt anyone by not answering a post. In fact I wish I did not spend so much time reading and replying to posts......maybe I would get a quilt done!!!!

Even with spending lots of time on here, I often miss posts and sometimes see them months later and wonder how I ever missed it.

[quote=Lneal]You ladies are awesome and are the most helpful group of people. I agree this board is ideal when it comes to quilting and the like. You couldn't ask for any better group of people.

My thoughts were not necessarily about posting to a thread, but about posting on a thread and being ignored. Not always, but have you ever posted on a thread and felt skipped over or like your opinions, ideas, advice was totally ignored? There was never a mention or acknowledgement of it. Not that every post on a thread has to be talked about by everybody, but when it happens several times you begin to wonder why you bothered with the input.

Maybe I'm not making sense but I just wondered if others have had the same experience. And ladies I'm not bringing this up because it's just me. It is something I want to do better on because I know I am guilty of doing the same thing to others.

I hope I have not been misunderstood here as I feel that I may have been.
I'm really referring to posting on a thread not to a thread.

[quote=Lneal]So I think maybe you are referring to-- you answer on a post and the person who started the post never responds to your answer ? Is this correct ? As a person who has started a thread (post) and gotten lots of answers it gets very time consuming to reply to everyone who has posted a comment to my original post. It is not that I haven't read what everyone has said, but to answer each comment , makes the thread grow huge and then some lose interest and the time constraints . We don't intend to be rude
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