Go Back  Quiltingboard Forums > Main
How come? >

How come?

How come?

Old 03-22-2011, 10:59 PM
  #11  
Super Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Upper Michigan
Posts: 8,248
Default

Keep posting! We want to see and hear from you!!
Painiacs is offline  
Old 03-23-2011, 12:56 AM
  #12  
Administrator
 
patricej's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Southeast Georgia, USA
Posts: 9,088
Default

yes! absolutely please keep posting! we're tickled pink to have you here! :thumbup:

i'll tell you a secret. feel free to pass it along the grapevine.

the number of responses a topic gets doesn't necessarily indicate how good that topic is, or how much value it adds to our community.

the best topics are those that are posted to share our projects; to share useful information; to ask positive, constructive questions so we can learn from each other; or that otherwise contribute to the fun, sharing, learning, and happiness here.

one of those with only a few responses contributes oobledy goobledy buckets and boatloads more than a complaining topic that generates page after page of sympathy and anger. ;-)

keep up the good work. we all love you. cross my heart. even if we don't say it often enough. ;-)
patricej is offline  
Old 03-23-2011, 01:28 AM
  #13  
Power Poster
 
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Ohio
Posts: 13,257
Default

I think it depends on what time you post. If you post real early in the morning, and then everyone else posts, your message gets lost. Also, depending on what your post is about, people may not be able to or not want to answer.
SueDor is offline  
Old 03-23-2011, 01:39 AM
  #14  
Senior Member
 
CompulsiveQuilter's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 733
Default

I think it depends on the "title" or your post. Be specific about what you need help with. Or specific on what picture you are showing. Just like a magazine ad, the headline determines whether or not you would read the info below. I posted a topic "what notions are a waste of money?" that got 40 pages of responses and made the digest. If I had just said "notions," who would have bothered to click on it?
CompulsiveQuilter is offline  
Old 03-23-2011, 01:43 AM
  #15  
Super Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Tippy-top of a ridge in WV
Posts: 6,355
Default

If you rely on your e-mail newsletter that used to be from Konstantin, and is now from a new ISP, you will never post anything that gets talked about as the new server sends your newsletter after the day is well in progress. I used to get mine and start reading and posting at 4:30a.m. Now by the time it arrives in my e-mail, I am long gone from the computer and on with my daily whatevers. So, now I have to come directly to the board in order to read the newest things posted.
Yooper32 is offline  
Old 03-23-2011, 04:42 AM
  #16  
Super Member
 
quiltmaker's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: In Hiding
Posts: 1,210
Default

Originally Posted by CompulsiveQuilter
I think it depends on the "title" or your post. Be specific about what you need help with. Or specific on what picture you are showing. Just like a magazine ad, the headline determines whether or not you would read the info below. I posted a topic "what notions are a waste of money?" that got 40 pages of responses and made the digest. If I had just said "notions," who would have bothered to click on it?
I agree with you wholeheartedly CompulsiveQuilter....vague topic titles drive me nuts....sorry....but I have opened some of them to see what they were trying to talk about and quickly left because it made no sense to their topic title which in itself was non specific. I just have never figured out why members use such vague titles...maybe hoping it draws interest or curiosity but for me it does the exact opposite and many times is a total waste of my limited time here on the board. This is not meant to be critical but it also makes our search feature that much more frustrating because the program created for this feature has no idea where it should go....so even if it's a really good topic of information one would be hardpressed to ever find that topic again. It truly takes our more advanced and computer master members to help others out with finding them again.

That said there are thousands of replies to topics here each and every day so people look for the topics that interest them and don't always have time to wade through each and every title.
Many people don't reply to topics when they feel what they have to offer has already been said. Plus, there are topics that have been repeated so often and could be found in the search feature that maybe many members just don't post to those anymore. Whatever the reason for people not posting a lot on a particular topic please know that each and every person is valued and appreciated on this board. So don't give up or get discouraged....just keep on keeping on and ask, help and learn from this fabulous board.
quiltmaker is offline  
Old 03-23-2011, 06:21 AM
  #17  
Junior Member
Thread Starter
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Lake Villa, Illinois
Posts: 278
Default

I guess I wasn't commenting on the amount of comments I get, what I was asking was, why do my posts not appear when we get our daily message board digest? I get a whole list of quilting related topics, then pictures from members, then non-quilted related things, etc, etc...you know how it goes, but my messages are never posted there, they have to be searched in the "recent topics" section. I just wondered what the criteria was for having your topic on that first main page.
christinetindell is offline  
Old 03-23-2011, 06:40 AM
  #18  
Senior Member
 
p38flygirl's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: LOUISIANA
Posts: 925
Default

Just keep on posting...Some topics are read more than others...some comments and some just looked at and totally passed by...
p38flygirl is offline  
Old 03-24-2011, 04:51 AM
  #19  
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Dothan, Alabama
Posts: 914
Default

Mine always seem to get posted and get responses but not on the main page, or pictures. So I really thought I was posting incorrectly. Glad to hear that is not the case. Thanks for the topic.
Zephyr is offline  
Old 03-24-2011, 05:11 AM
  #20  
Super Member
 
BettyGee's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Colorado
Posts: 2,254
Default

Please don't stop posting! I try to read everything, doesn't always work out. We want to hear your thoughts so please keep them coming. Okay?
BettyGee is offline  
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
PatPitter
Main
26
12-06-2014 04:41 PM
charity-crafter
Offline Events, Announcements, Discussions
2
06-03-2011 05:21 AM
Ethel A
Main
61
08-23-2009 05:18 AM
sondray
Links and Resources
0
05-29-2008 06:03 AM

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off


FREE Quilting Newsletter