# Are You A Poster Nobody Wants To Get To Know Better? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 9, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045 "2006-08-09T19:29:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Pazu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pazu/32/15522_2.png) [@Pazu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pazu)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/121 "2006-08-10T18:32:37Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] […] As for the people with less than 300 posts, how are we supposed to like you if you never post? :dubious: [/QUOTE] The hamsters ate my posts 208 through 34,672. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/122 "2006-08-10T18:33:58Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] But if you were well-known in the Pit, or GD, or GQ, you probably won’t be mentioned in that thread because the people who are likely to mention you just roll their eyes when they see that kind of thread. [/QUOTE] You’re entirely correct. I’m going to go over there and give props to some GQ people right now. Of course that will disqualify them from further participation in this thread, but they’ll live with that. ---
**Author:** ![dasgupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@dasgupta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasgupta)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/123 "2006-08-10T18:37:44Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] As for the people with less than 300 posts, how are we supposed to like you if you never post? :dubious: [/QUOTE] Hmmm… there might be some truth in this. Perhaps, in true Dope fashion, I shall test the theory and come out of semi-lurkdom. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/124 "2006-08-10T18:42:10Z")
[QUOTE=LunaV] ::waves:: I think we need a secret handshake and a cardboard sign on the front door. and margaritas… [/QUOTE] There’s margaritas in here?! Glad I showed up, then. It’s odd - I’m actually quite a likeable person, but I just come across a lot better in meatspace than online. Unfortunate, since I spend quite a lot of my time here. Also, while I posted a lot for awhile, I’ve been mostly lurking for the past year or so. ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/125 "2006-08-10T18:47:05Z")
Well, you know what Groucho Marx said about any club that would have him as a member… Boy, do I ever belong in this one! I’m almost never mentioned in **any** capacity (although I think one or 2 other posters despise me). I love the level of discourse & humor here, but I fear that I’m a misfit and am considering letting my subscription lapse & going back to lurking. I don’t contribute anything of significance that someone else couldn’t step up & post, if I weren’t such an attention whore. Oh - yes, yes, and yes - but not here. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/126 "2006-08-10T19:28:57Z")
Answer to questions: no to all three. Apparently, nobody wants to get to know me, either. And I’ve been a member for three years! I guess I should be glad that nearly the entirety of what I’ve said here has gone unremarked upon. If somebody was always taking me to task for every opinion I voiced, this board would have been a very different experience for me. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/127 "2006-08-10T20:43:42Z")
Thank you, **Rebecca DiMwitter**! If you ever fry your keyboard due to our posts, see if your company can replace it with one of those ones that allow easy access to European characters like ö, Ä, é, or ß . Then see if you can insert a few of the vowels at random in an office memo. The trick is to visualize the various people in your office whose faces are contorting like goldfish trying to pronounce them. :o 😉😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebecca_DiMwitter)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/128 "2006-08-10T21:38:40Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] Thank you, **Rebecca DiMwitter**! If you ever fry your keyboard due to our posts, see if your company can replace it with one of those ones that allow easy access to European characters like ö, Ä, é, or ß . Then see if you can insert a few of the vowels at random in an office memo. The trick is to visualize the various people in your office whose faces are contorting like goldfish trying to pronounce them. :o 😉😃 [/QUOTE] GRAND idea, **Count** , but I work in an office full of construction he-men types. They can’t decipher a memo from me NOW, minus the decorative umlauts. Not that they are not geniuses in their own right, just that my “flowery” language is often a bit beyond their, um, interest level. We can all agree on septic permits, for example, tho…I agree they are unendurably boring for my part, but at least it is agreement of a sort, correct? Your “goldfish out of water” friend, Beck ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/129 "2006-08-10T21:58:39Z")
[QUOTE=Rico] (sniff) No one (sniffsniff) wants to get to know the (sob) Moderators better! You’d think we all wear jackboots and wield truncheons or something… [/QUOTE] Several people have mentioned tomndebb, Rico, so that’s not it. I think’s it’s your name. People hereabouts don’t trust people with names that end in vowels. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/130 "2006-08-10T22:25:29Z")
Hey! ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/131 "2006-08-10T22:36:15Z")
Serves you right, besmircher! ---
**Author:** ![Pazu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pazu/32/15522_2.png) [@Pazu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pazu)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/132 "2006-08-11T00:07:21Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] Several people have mentioned tomndebb, Rico, so that’s not it. I think’s it’s your name. People hereabouts don’t trust people with names that end in vowels. [/QUOTE] Damn straight. Why, I…uh… Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/133 "2006-08-11T00:08:26Z")
[QUOTE=Loopydude] Serves you right, besmircher! [/QUOTE] You know you’re just making me laugh. And if I laugh at people I invariably like them better and better. \*adds \*\*Loopydude \*_to list of people she’d like to meet_ You’re outta here! ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/134 "2006-08-11T00:11:48Z")
:mad: Darn you to heck! ---
**Author:** ![Carnacki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Carnacki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnacki)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/135 "2006-08-11T00:19:41Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] [QUOTE=Chez Guevara] . 1. Views only of this thread are discouraged. A view without a post indicates 1) a cry for help 2) covert surveillance by occupants of the other thread or 3) a desire to mock the unpopular. I was going to skulk off until I saw this … Busted !!! 😛 [/QUOTE] Same here. I had to do the requisite search of the other thread on the off-chance I was mentioned, and now I’m forced to post here under rule 5…I want my 90 seconds back, darnit! Although I’ve posted so infrequently, I don’t think I qualify for either. Maybe I should start my own thread… As to the three questions in the OP: No, maybe (I’m not omniscient), and not if I can help it. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/136 "2006-08-11T01:05:19Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Hey! [/QUOTE] Not you, dear. You’re a damsel. _Completely_ different rules for damsels. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/137 "2006-08-11T01:44:06Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] 1. Are you overcome by nostalgia for the time when people wanted to get to know you better? 2. Was there ever a time when people wanted to get to know you better? 3. Do you think there ever will be a time when people want to get to know you better? [/QUOTE] No, No & Nada. I’m unpopular because people on this board have an inherent but well hidden jealously of anyone from Cleveland. And with good reason. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/138 "2006-08-11T01:47:29Z")
[QUOTE=fishbicycle] Answer to questions: no to all three. Apparently, nobody wants to get to know me, either. And I’ve been a member for three years! I guess I should be glad that nearly the entirety of what I’ve said here has gone unremarked upon. If somebody was always taking me to task for every opinion I voiced, this board would have been a very different experience for me. [/QUOTE] I find you one of the most interesting posters, because you have such an odd hobby/pastime that I really would love doing myself. I have a sizeable music collection, but I bet I don’t even have a tenth of yours. Woot! ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/139 "2006-08-11T01:53:34Z")
Well, thanks! Think maybe you’d like to help work on my database? With both of us putting in time on it, the job may only take six or seven more years! That’d give me more time to pursue my hobby. Seriously, I appreciate your comments. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_A_Tame_Lion)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045/140 "2006-08-11T03:00:57Z")
1. Are you overcome by nostalgia for the time when people wanted to get to know you better? By what for when when what? 2. Was there ever a time when people wanted to get to know you better? What are you, high? 3. Do you think there ever will be a time when people want to get to know you better? Not unless I start shitting money. Seriously though, I suspect both threads are way off the mark. I’ve found almost all of the Dopers to be cool, intelligent people, even when I disagree with them. Nobody here is really unliked, though some may be more liked than others. Not me though. I’m a total _dick._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poster-nobody-wants-to-get-to-know-better/368045.md?page=8)