Have you ever stumbled upon a thread that was like five pages long with lots of recent activity, then you decide to chime in, and then the thread just dies? And you think, “Uh, was it something I said?” And no one speaks in the thread ever again.
Doesn’t that leave you with a weird feeling? It does to me.
Anyways, just wanted to share this. It’s happened to me and I always wondered what everyone else thought about that. Or if it’s something people think about at all.
Deep down it makes me feel sad. Like, I didn’t do enough to keep things going. Oh well.
Doesn’t bother me; usually the conversation has run its course by the time I get there (an hour or two later), so I just make a comment of some sort and move on. Some perverse part of me enjoys it: “Look, Martha, I’ve killed another one!” Then I stamp the side of my computer–like WWII fighter planes in some old flick–and see what other mischief I can get into.
Yeah, I kinda get the same feeling, like I am a johnny-come-lately to the party. I dread having my username be the last one appearing in the Forum view for that thread. It will be there forever.
This has happened to me quite a bit. I think it’s because I don’t spend a lot of time here (not as much as some of you, anyway), and by the time I notice a thread it has usually run its course.
