Actually, I've been busier than a one armed paper hanger. I'm working a part time tech job for a great little company and I mentor at risk high school boys twice a week at Houston area high schools. I find myself posting less than I used to, and certainly, shorter posts... except maybe for the survey postsundaymorningstaple wrote:JR8 and Strong Eagle have that leisure, to their credit (although I don't think SE likes it that way).
It happens and I am afraid there is no really any good way to avoid it. This, especially that the number of spam posts is on the rise. If a member has just a few posts and recommends some products or services the likelihood that s(he) is a genuine poster is very low.singapore eagle wrote:OK, I genuinely offer this in a constructive spirit...
Many of you regulars come across as very, shall we say, aggressive. This isn't always the case and there are some notable exceptions - e.g. JR8 and Strong Eagle (most of the time, anyway). I haven't posted very much since I joined, and in part this is because I remember one thread where I contributed some helpful information only to be accused of various different things.
I believe this is not true (predominantly the older aggressive males) but I actually see the problem of similar origin. For me this forum was always some sort of phenomenon. The group of people it seems to target are busy professionals. Such people do not frequent such places because they are ... hmmm... busy. Even more busy as the expats. Trailing spouses could, but IMHO by the social type (as of the average) their preference is FB. This forum had some critical mass of regulars present in the past few years but IMHO the healthy margin was always pretty narrow. We lost some good, actively posting regulars in relatively short time, last year or so. BillyBoy, Nutnut, beppi, Zzm (not exhaustive list), even Nak as the examples. They are still sort of around but not posting that frequently. IMHO the critical mass is no longer here.singapore eagle wrote:It becomes apparent quite quickly when you join that the board is frequented mainly by older males whose first language is English. It's perhaps not a surprise that this leads to less traffic than you might expect from a Singapore Expats Forum.
Yes, I know he is back but clearly more busy. I think also BillyB is still in Singapore. And Sergiei busy too perhaps some different way or left already for HK. Myself, last two months pretty busy, tired and not posting that frequently. Some "fresher" regulars also left Singapore (e.g. Beeroclock).Brah wrote:Zzm is back, X, though perhaps traveling too much to post often.
rajagainstthemachine wrote:Brahs only aggressive if people don't like certain bands, I on the other hand cant be bothered with getting angry with stupid people who ask the most obvious question without having done the basic research on the internet and expect people here to spoon feed them.
Raj I really don't think so and I don't care what others don't like unless the opinion comes back as disparaging or inaccurate or stereotypical, if I can use a double-negative; if I was aggressive it was for a different reason.rajagainstthemachine wrote:Brahs only aggressive if people don't like certain bands, I on the other hand cant be bothered with getting angry with stupid people who ask the most obvious question without having done the basic research on the internet and expect people here to spoon feed them.
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