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juliaoceania -> RE: Starting threads (2/1/2010 3:23:33 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: DomImus quote: ORIGINAL: LadyPact 2. Are you more or less likely to try to do the research before starting a new thread? Doesn't starting a thread here and asking others who might be more knowledgeable constitute research? she never stated that they were not both ways to obtain information

Missokyst -> RE: Starting threads (2/1/2010 3:23:39 PM)
No, I dont use the search function at all. IF I did decide to research for some reason and I did decide the answers provided did not cover what I wanted to know, it would be natural to tag on to the prior topic. PHHT. Not gonna happen. I research for a living. Opinions, and that is what we get here, are just as easily pulled from fresh material than spending the time reviewing old stuff. quote: ORIGINAL: DomImus quote: ORIGINAL: Missokyst I dislike the search function and refuse to use it. Why? LOL try bringing up old threads in this place! You use the search function to research and read - not resurrect.

DomImus -> RE: Starting threads (2/1/2010 6:34:11 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Missokyst I research for a living. Opinions, and that is what we get here, are just as easily pulled from fresh material than spending the time reviewing old stuff. Unless that topic is absent among the fresh material available.

DomImus -> RE: Starting threads (2/1/2010 6:38:13 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: juliaoceania quote: ORIGINAL: DomImus quote: ORIGINAL: LadyPact 2. Are you more or less likely to try to do the research before starting a new thread? Doesn't starting a thread here and asking others who might be more knowledgeable constitute research? she never stated that they were not both ways to obtain information She has in past threads shown obvious disdain for people who pose questions here instead of having Googled to look for the information. That's why I asked the question but thank you for your input.

MzMia -> RE: Starting threads (2/1/2010 6:52:57 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Missokyst No, I dont use the search function at all. IF I did decide to research for some reason and I did decide the answers provided did not cover what I wanted to know, it would be natural to tag on to the prior topic. PHHT. Not gonna happen. I research for a living. Opinions, and that is what we get here, are just as easily pulled from fresh material than spending the time reviewing old stuff. quote: ORIGINAL: DomImus quote: ORIGINAL: Missokyst I dislike the search function and refuse to use it. Why? LOL try bringing up old threads in this place! You use the search function to research and read - not resurrect. I agree with Missokyst and using the search function. It does not have to be either/or, it can be BOTH. I can read the previous threads and STILL ask the same question. I CAN read what people said 2 or 3 years ago, and I still might want an answer based on how people feel on the exact day I ask the question in 2010. People are free to not answer threads they find boring or are tired of answering.

heartcream -> RE: Starting threads (2/1/2010 8:37:19 PM)
If there is something I want to know I would google it and go from there. I havent really done a search here except to follow some posters old posts if I was bored and thought they were interesting. I have been here almost three years and started one thread about airport security which was kinda spooky for me. Sure, I have started ones in humor but that is just sharing something funny. Some of the posters here make me feel ill and do not like to shine the spot light on me and have them say the cold-hearted, self-righteous, superior-sounding things they say directly to me. I dont really give a toss at the end of the day, it is the internet but I am not going to ask for it either. If I needed to know something important like the gauge of a needle I would not come here to find out. I might email someone here that I think might know though.

MzMia -> RE: Starting threads (2/1/2010 8:45:06 PM)
Pity though that you don't feel comfortable starting threads. HC, you seem so sweet and wise, what a shame. I get bored with the same old, same olds always starting threads. It is almost always the "same old people" or those brand new, that start threads. Have ya noticed that? I am sure there are many here that never start threads or ask questions, for the exact same reasons. Our loss, I am sure. I am to the point, I hang out and post 90% of the time in the political section, only.

heartcream -> RE: Starting threads (2/1/2010 9:02:43 PM)
Wow MzMia, what a pleasant surprise. I am running back here to see if I can edit out most of what I said here. I read your post after mine and was not expecting that. Thank you. I am going to leave it in now har dee har har. I do find the Politics area interesting sometimes. I like some of the places those conversations go.

MzMia -> RE: Starting threads (2/1/2010 9:09:13 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: heartcream Wow MzMia, what a pleasant surprise. I am running back here to see if I can edit out most of what I said here. I read your post after mine and was not expecting that. Thank you. I am going to leave it in now har dee har har. I do find the Politics area interesting sometimes. I like some of the places those conversations go. Well thank you HC, I have always noticed you and enjoyed your style. You are certainly unique. [:D]

EbonyWood -> RE: Starting threads (2/1/2010 9:11:06 PM)
I agree with MzMia, heart. You sometimes have an unusual take on things. You should start a thread if you want to, as long as it doesn't replicate a recent one. Everyone here has wisdom or insight in at least some measure to contribute if they wish and shouldn't feel discouraged from doing so.

sexyred1 -> RE: Starting threads (2/1/2010 9:13:33 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: heartcream If there is something I want to know I would google it and go from there. I havent really done a search here except to follow some posters old posts if I was bored and thought they were interesting. I have been here almost three years and started one thread about airport security which was kinda spooky for me. Sure, I have started ones in humor but that is just sharing something funny. Some of the posters here make me feel ill and do not like to shine the spot light on me and have them say the cold-hearted, self-righteous, superior-sounding things they say directly to me. I dont really give a toss at the end of the day, it is the internet but I am not going to ask for it either. If I needed to know something important like the gauge of a needle I would not come here to find out. I might email someone here that I think might know though. Who on earth doesn't like you?? You are adorable and quirky, what's not to like?

ChainedExistence -> RE: Starting threads (2/1/2010 9:15:19 PM)
It doesn't particularly bother me to read threads that are similar to ones I've seen before. Here's why- I am a book lover. Over the years, I have a collection of favorites that have "spoken" to me at some point in my life. Occasionally I get the urge to read one of them again, and I often find that the book seems quite different than it did in the past. Maybe things don't seem as black and white as they did earlier in my life. Maybe I am more forgiving of the flawed character, or I am more able to relate to a character whose situation seems to mirror my own. The books didn't change, I did. Sure I can google a question, and get some answers, but maybe it doesn't hurt me to read something familiar in a format I find comfortable to visit. Maybe there's someone who says that ONE LINE that speaks to me in the moment. Maybe even in repeating something I've heard a dozen times before, I hone in on some different aspect that I'd never considered before.

MzMia -> RE: Starting threads (2/1/2010 9:20:07 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ChainedExistence It doesn't particularly bother me to read threads that are similar to ones I've seen before. Here's why- I am a book lover. Over the years, I have a collection of favorites that have "spoken" to me at some point in my life. Occasionally I get the urge to read one of them again, and I often find that the book seems quite different than it did in the past. Maybe things don't seem as black and white as they did earlier in my life. Maybe I am more forgiving of the flawed character, or I am more able to relate to a character whose situation seems to mirror my own. The books didn't change, I did. Sure I can google a question, and get some answers, but maybe it doesn't hurt me to read something familiar in a format I find comfortable to visit. Maybe there's someone who says that ONE LINE that speaks to me in the moment. Maybe even in repeating something I've heard a dozen times before, I hone in on some different aspect that I'd never considered before. What a delightful point of view! Chained, you are another diamond in the rough, that should start threads, but doesn't. I have always felt that we are missing out on so much, from the regulars that don't start threads. We will never know the "gems" we have missed out on, because so many regulars don't feel comfortable starting threads. Again, our loss. [sm=goodpost.gif]

kdsub -> RE: Starting threads (2/1/2010 9:39:27 PM)
I do research on a thread I start just so I can at least sound informed if not intelligent...But I don't search to see if the same type of thread has been posted before. If we all did that and not posted the thread, because it had already been discussed, then no thread would be posted...There is very little new under the sun as they say. I think it would be hard to think of a truly original thought on our lifestyle let alone a thread here on CM. I say post what comes to your mind and interests you and the response will determine its worth. I know people get tired of the same type thread posted over and over…but they don’t last long. Butch

heartcream -> RE: Starting threads (2/1/2010 10:39:29 PM)
Wow what a nice thread! I agree with Chained Existence. I dont mind threads about the same thing. There are certain topics I could talk about any time. The way a person asks, who they are, who is around at the time all contribute to the flavor and direction of the thread. I also find that there are soooooo many threads, I am reading and responding to what jumps out at me and I know I miss a ton because more than once I will come on a thread that has been racing down the highway a million miles an hour for like 35 pages and I have not seen it yet. Or I will be following someone around and wonder where the heck that thread came from that they responded to. I find it hard to keep track of my own threads. I would love to hear from more people and I would love it if some of the threads didnt get bottle-necked immediately. You know how someone will start a thread about some sort of taboo subject (it is funny to me considering where we congregate) like say, ghosts and people will go mental about how they dont believe in it, it doesnt exist, jumping up and down slamming doors and there is no discussion except for the prove it or that is bullshit and you are anyone like you is too sort of response that ends up nowhere really. Or back when the greatest atheist ever was posting thread after thread about God. I found it completely numbing. There is a sort of shutting down that makes me want to laugh and cry all at once. Thank you so much for the things yall said. It is really encouraging to hear.

pyroaquatic -> RE: Starting threads (2/1/2010 10:58:57 PM)
i hope i do not start assedlimed threads. i know i may come of a bit abrasive oops. The threads started, true they may repeat but the perspective of each individual thread has a unique print of each member of the forum in a specific pattern. Some, yes incredibly repetitive... but only because they do not know. My two bits

pyroaquatic -> RE: Starting threads (2/1/2010 11:03:03 PM)
Technical is better in person, Ideas are best forged unbiasedly and with some degree of anonymity.

allthatjaz -> RE: Starting threads (2/2/2010 1:20:20 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: LillyoftheVally I start threads a lot, on anything I am interested in, I have been told of for doing done to death topics. To be honest the only times those threads annoy me is when there is one still going at the time of asking and the OP worte about one word and then fecked off clearly not really caring what came up. I find the search feature hard to use for more obscure or specific themes. And specific such as needle things I would probably do a google search. I like reading the responses from people I respect, so the search can be crap for that. I try when starting threads to ask something new or ask something in a new way, I don't start them for drama or to brag or any of that. To be honest I would rather have a board of a few interesting threads than a board full of controversy seekers. I hate that. I recently answered a thread with a well thought out response. I was the only person that answered the ops thread but he never came back. He still looks at my profile every day though!!! silly boy

stella41b -> RE: Starting threads (2/2/2010 1:45:08 AM)
Usually when I'm looking for information I will either google it, ask people I know, or even - before using the search function - ask another regular poster if they've seen a thread on the subject area I'm looking for. I figure that we all come to the boards at different times in a 24 hour period and knowing that I sometimes miss threads, I find it's worth asking another regular poster if they've seen a thread on a given subject. When I start a thread I try to be original or to try and present a common topic from a different perspective. Quite often before I start a thread I will run it past another poster or even draw up a small consensus from a few posters over whether the thread is going to be interesting for other posters. I'm interested in opinions from anyone and everyone and even if I don't manage to respond to all who post on the thread I do read what everyone has written and take it in. I also quite often will check the first few pages of the section immediately before starting a thread to make sure I'm not encroaching on another topic or likely to disrupt another thread. I don't always get it right, but generally it's whether I can find that new perspective or not which often determines whether I start a thread or simply participate in an existing thread.

Level -> RE: Starting threads (2/2/2010 4:11:04 AM)
I rarely use the search function. If I want to start a thread, I do. I agree with the others about heartcream, she's funny and bright, and I'd be interested in what threads she might start.

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