what sort of questions attract your answer and why? no this is not a ploy to get info and use it

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i just want to know.
do you like the funny ones most? or the serious heavy-debate type ones?
why?
do you post any yourself?
if not, why not?

― donna (donna), Friday, 4 October 2002 02:06 (twenty-three years ago)

do you read the really long ones, the ones that have hundreds of answers or do you just go " oh bugger that" and head off somewhere else?
are the ones you answer an indicator of the type of person you are?

― donna (donna), Friday, 4 October 2002 02:08 (twenty-three years ago)

do you like debate? or just a chat?
do you strive to make your responses clear or do you just type away whatever enters your head at the time?

― donna (donna), Friday, 4 October 2002 02:09 (twenty-three years ago)

i like the ones with a lot of twists and turns and hilarious surprises around ever corner.

and titty.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 October 2002 02:16 (twenty-three years ago)

i like the heavy debate ones, but i usually don't post in them because i feel too silly, or someone else has said what i would say. also they get really long and i don't have time to scroll through.

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 4 October 2002 02:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the chatty ones best.

― rainy (rainy), Friday, 4 October 2002 02:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I post to whatever, I am stats aware.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 4 October 2002 06:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the ones with cute pictures of kittens in them
I like the funny and mental ones
And most of all I like the ones where mark s brings back his strange and wonderful pictures from his interweb travels like the explorers of old bringing back exotic spices from the east.

Oh and when the ones where Ned *weeps* (sorry Ned but I find it amusing and I know your not REALLY weeping. Are you?)

― gazza, Friday, 4 October 2002 07:05 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/whrobin3.gif

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 07:34 (twenty-three years ago)

haha!
Yes, those ones.
Thank you mark

― gazza, Friday, 4 October 2002 07:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I rarely if ever contribute to the serious threads about war in Iraq, Sept 11 etc. I do however lurk on them quite a bit. I don't feel insecure about my knowledge or ability to express myself on these matters, but I see how easily ppl upset others unintentionally, know that I could very easily do the same if I contributed, and end up watching from a distance.

I like ones about places, pubs, animals*, books that I read or films that I have seen. I always read the FAP ones in the hopes that I might be able to make it to a FAP someday soon.

I hold out for new threads about chickenbear....

* esp. if the animal in question is SPACESTATION PONGO natch.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 4 October 2002 07:56 (twenty-three years ago)

SPACESTATION PONGO not animal but BEAST!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:01 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a menace I tell you.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I read the heavy ones unless I'm in a bad mood. I read the ones about books, comics, films etc if I know what's being talked about. I read the ones about general cultural behaviour and serious-but-not-REALLY-serious issues. I read anything I can't work out from the question title at least once. I read any threads which show huge posting activity in case anyone there is screaming for the moderator or in case there's a huge FITE going on.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I generally stay away from war and september 11 style ones but like cultural topics as a whole. My favourite topics are ones which tell me about books and films that i've been meaning to read or that make me want to read/see them as a result. I never post anywhere, you're all far too scary.

― Danny (Danny), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Spacestation Pongo is lovely. I was dancing with her this morning to 'Another Girl Another Planet'. She is a fantastic dancer!

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Totally depends on my mood but lately I am drawn to silly ones because I'm too busy at work to actually THINK. I read serious/controversial threads but I only really post to them when I'm feeling up for a SCRAP, which isn't very often. Normally I am a peacekeeper and I am scared of antagonising people I don't know...

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I read almost all of them unless they are clearly unrelated to me (FAP Auckland/NY, that kind of thing - I'd just get jealous that I can't meet all of these fine people). I stop reading a thread if I get bored, but that is rare. I post if I have something to say, either to make my contribution to the 'what kind of person are you?' threads (describe your bed, etc.), or because I imagine I have something funny or interesting to say, or because I disagree with someone, or loads of other reasons.

On ILM on the other hand I read maybe one thread in ten, just if it is (or might be) on a subject that interests me, and I post much less. Odd, considering how obsessed I am with music, but the relative success of a thread on Irma Thomas (poss the last ILM one I started - I think the mighty Dr C was the only respondent!) and ones on almost any indie/post-rock act is a lot to do with this.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I particularly like the threads where someone asks what are you doing this week, or when did you last go out or something, I like seeing what everyone is up to. I also like the not so serious but serious issues, as Tom put it. Relationship threads but not really serious ones are always a bit of a laugh, same goes for food threads. I'd post more in the serious political threads more except I feel a bit intimidated even when I'm sure I have something to add.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I read most of them, unless the question is phrased in a way that I find really ignorant or offensive -- in that case it's usually just best to ignore them anyway. I actually like the more complex, philosophical discussions, but I very rarely ever post to those because either I find them a little too intellectually intimidating or I just see no point (like with abortion -- people already have very strongly felt beliefs on the issue, arguing or even talking them won't change that).

I mostly take part in the silly threads lately, I've just been in the silliest mood lately. I think I put that down to relief over finally being done w/grad school -- "ha ha now I have all this free time to talk crap! Hurrah!".

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

it is fascinating to read what people post to and what they find most interesting, as even with only these few responses there are different personality traits appearing.
the answers match each persons writing style as i have gotten to think of it since finding ile.
this really is a great site for studying people.
not that THAT is what im doing.
as for me, i seem to post to all sorts of things and am out of my depth sometimes and also make an idiot of myself when my mind gets all ahead of my typing.
but its fun anyway.

― donna (donna), Friday, 4 October 2002 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a great site for studying interweb mentalists, Donna. I'm not sure that's the same thing.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 October 2002 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I read the ones at the top of New Answers, too.

The BEST ones are mark s's picture ones, I forgot those. They make me so happy.

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 4 October 2002 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't say that I like serious or jokey threads. I like both. I also dislike both. I like London threads because it's where I live so it's something I know a bit about. Same goes for muso and music tech threads. I often type up replies but then an inner voice tells me 'no what's the point you're not contributing anything'. I try now not to submit anything pointless (yeah I know I need to try harder).

I've noticed that threads posted at the wrong time get lost eg the Numbers Stations one which fizzled out partly for that reason.

― David (David), Friday, 4 October 2002 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I read the ones that seem linear -- either good strings of jokes and banter, or lengthy involved debates that get me irate enough to wind up being a prick to everyone. I'd like to stop doing the latter -- it makes me feel bad -- but nothing gets me running back to a thread like a heated debate.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 October 2002 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

"Good strings of jokes and banter" usually = watching Londonders make in-jokes and flirt, like some sort of voyeuristic interweb zoo where you can look in at the young people (except here you can pop in with a dirty pun now and then).

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 October 2002 20:02 (twenty-three years ago)

like some sort of voyeuristic interweb zoo

I think of it as a bit like a tv soap - people you 'know' but have never met, yet they seem so real. The similarity with soaps extends to the issues of being addicted to watching them, and also hating the characters.

― David (David), Friday, 4 October 2002 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh and when the ones where Ned *weeps* (sorry Ned but I find it amusing and I know your not REALLY weeping. Are you?)

YOU DOUBT ME? *bawls*

I'm with Nicole on the 'intellectually intimidating' front. Everyone stop being smart for a while, thanks! ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 October 2002 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Nobody on the Londonweb flirts.

the answers match each persons writing style as i have gotten to think of it since finding ile.
this really is a great site for studying people.

Doomie to thread!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 4 October 2002 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I read most threads when I have time but I hate starting threads. I am a thread revivalist.

I always read threads to which I have posted.

I almost exclusively view threads using New Answers so the identity of the thread starter is irrelevant to whether I read it.

I like funny threads, serious threads and meta-threads. I don't like threads that are based on obviously underinformed political dogma that is apparent from the titular question.

~~and then we all lez it up~~

― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 5 October 2002 03:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I try and read as many threads as possible, even the FAPs for areas where I don;t live, as these sometimes go off-topic and become quite funny.
As for posting, this has become almost arbitrary for me. I used to be intimidated, but I have gotten away with some shitty posts, and, in general, there seems to be no patterns of response that would allow me to be able to prejudge the reactions to anything I put up. To put it all another way, sometimes my delirious and drunken reflections are better received than my more thoughtful posts.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 5 October 2002 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

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