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[Greengoop]

Personally, I don't care about whether people pay attention to me or not when I post, I tend to either join a conversation or talk about other things I'm doing either during the day or week if it's not in use. i don't post there if a conversation is already happening that I either don't want to intrude in or have no interest.

This exactly. I’m not too bothered about getting an insane amount of posts/tings anymore, at least at the moment, so it’s nice to either report on something or engage in conversations with someone.

[Reese Riverson]

This exactly. I’m not too bothered about getting an insane amount of posts/tings anymore, at least at the moment, so it’s nice to either report on something or engage in conversations with someone.

When a person gets so invested in getting an insane amount of posts/Tings, you can tell how low the quality of posts dip around here. I'm glad to hear you're not bothered about getting that insane amount anymore, because having actual nice conversations makes a world of difference around here.

Sadly there are some who still rapid-fire a post response, like that's all they're after, which causes people to get annoyed, discourages them from wanting to really bother responding back, or leave quality / engaging conversations behind. (Besides, how can you be sure someone who does behave that way, actually bothered to properly read any of the messages above?)

I personally love Tings as much as everyone else, and while I do want my Rayman 3 rank back, I'm not going to go on a needless posting spree for it.

I guess you could look at it like this to some extent as well, though I generally enjoy trying to respond to people sometimes. I almost feel pluses and minuses or daily doldrums are better for talking about those things, but maybe the latter is more for venting than sharing thoughts. I guess the You Game can be used this way, it's definitely different if someone writes a little paragraph than those examples above. I definitely wouldn't encourage rapid firing without giving much thought though, aside from that, I can see what you mean.

Yeah I think therin lies the rub, the You Game has a far broader scope of topics that you can broach and talk about, whereas +/- and Doldrums are more narrowly focused about certain aspects of our lives, and the format of the former tends to be geared to more succinct posting, whereas the latter is more geared towards grievances than any general manner of discussion.

But ofc that's my perspective, I think as long no-one's taking the piss at the end of the day, s'all good, no?

I'm a bit more inclined to agree with Steo on his initial post about the YouGame, as too short of messages can be seen as an attempt to spam, or post as many times as possible. To me, a couple of sentences or a small paragraph isn't asking for too much. Especially if you either engage with someone or briefly cover something about your day.

It truly is a balancing act though, but I think the grand scale of things is simply to not rapid-fire posts just to get your Ting count up.

[Master]

I don't dispute that, we both know the effects and consequences of posting like that given our posting sprees in the past. I just feel it's important to remember that our approaches to posting to threads can also be down to a matter of perspective, and it's important to remember there can be nuance or other approaches to a thread that aren't mired in a selfish or malicious context.

But yeah, posting for the sake of number go up is a quick method to annoy folks, or get folks to start ignoring you.

[Steo]

Yeah that's pretty much it. I mean, if you are interacting with other people and the conversation is enjoyable to the other party, it's likely that they will want to interact with you more often. In fact, this way one can still earn tings, while having fun and not really thinking about the numbers at all. Kind of like, two birds one stone, but while just having fun communicating with others.

Generally, if one doesn't interact much with others, then others won't interact much with one either.

[Raynic]

I need a LOT of tings to get the Helena HandBasket rank.

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