# Do you think people would notice if YOU stopped posting? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 17, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503 "2007-05-17T19:49:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/181 "2007-05-18T20:22:51Z")
I didn’t post for about a year and I don’t think anyone noticed. (Although I didn’t check so I really don’t know.) ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/182 "2007-05-18T20:28:26Z")
Very funny, Ludovic, you are still posting and I was reading your message. And you are touching me. Mooooommmmmmm, make him stop!!\* - very clever. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/183 "2007-05-18T20:52:48Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] They hardly notice when I do post. [/QUOTE] The Dead Pool wouldn’t be the same without you. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/184 "2007-05-18T22:18:52Z")
I doubt anyone would. I’m not witty or vitriolic enough to be remembered in MPSIMS or the Pit, and in GQ there are people who answer questions on my specialist subjects far more eloquently than I do. Apart from the SO maybe who’d wonder why I’d gone so quiet. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/185 "2007-05-18T22:22:15Z")
[QUOTE=Sattua] I don’t think anyone would notice, no. I don’t get into arguments with people, the threads I start are pretty plain-vanilla, and I’ve been so promptly shat upon every time I try to say something interesting that I’ve basically given up on it. I hang around to read, mostly, and because I get good information in my plain-vanilla threads. [/QUOTE] The hell you say ? You might be plain vanilla but don’t go thinking no one’s out to shit on you ! Better than some of the loud mouth jackasses that infest this place with their I hate this … I hate that… bullshit. Take it from Jesus’s pal (hide the wife and grease the cats ass they’ll be comin for me now) you just keep on keepin on with your nice ass self. 🆒 I’ve noticed your posts plenty. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/186 "2007-05-18T22:36:42Z")
[QUOTE=Sunrazor] Me? Nope. Although, come to think of it, I haven’t heard from FairyChatsMom in a while. Whatever happened to her? [/QUOTE] Nothing’s happened to me - at least nothing nefarious. I just seem to do most of my posting in the MMP, especially this week - I was in training at work and it required some overtime. But I’m here and I’m fine, thanks for asking. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/187 "2007-05-19T00:51:18Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] The hell you say ? You might be plain vanilla but don’t go thinking no one’s out to shit on you ! Better than some of the loud mouth jackasses that infest this place with their I hate this … I hate that… bullshit. Take it from Jesus’s pal (hide the wife and grease the cats ass they’ll be comin for me now) you just keep on keepin on with your nice ass self. 🆒 I’ve noticed your posts plenty. [/QUOTE] Now I feel all warm and squishy. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/188 "2007-05-19T02:17:35Z")
Nope, no one would notice. I dropped off for a long time after my son was born and it didn’t make a difference. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/189 "2007-05-19T02:50:54Z")
[QUOTE=overlyverbose] Nope, no one would notice. I dropped off for a long time after my son was born and it didn’t make a difference. [/QUOTE] I do recognize your username. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/190 "2007-05-19T02:56:43Z")
Maybe eventually, but I’m not sure. I’ve stopped posting for several months at a time in the past. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/191 "2007-05-19T03:31:01Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] Maybe eventually, but I’m not sure. I’ve stopped posting for several months at a time in the past. [/QUOTE] Hi Opal! You are that Opal right? ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/192 "2007-05-19T04:40:50Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] Maybe eventually, but I’m not sure. I’ve stopped posting for several months at a time in the past. [/QUOTE] I call bullshit! I’m fairly sure I’ve seen more than one “where’s Opal?” comment over the years. You might not get your own thread, but people notice. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/193 "2007-05-19T04:44:03Z")
In the early days, though, they greeted her more. A _lot_ more. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/194 "2007-05-19T11:14:54Z")
I would be astonished if anybody noticed. ---
**Author:** ![Jelymag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jelymag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jelymag)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/195 "2007-05-19T12:41:27Z")
Why are all of the ads about toothbrushes?? I noticed when **Kytheria** was gone for a little while recently. Not sure why her especially. Wasn’t there a new girl around for a while that I haven’t seen lately? Something about an olive in her name? ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/196 "2007-05-19T13:18:30Z")
[QUOTE=Jelymag] Why are all of the ads about toothbrushes?? I noticed when **Kytheria** was gone for a little while recently. Not sure why her especially. Wasn’t there a new girl around for a while that I haven’t seen lately? Something about an olive in her name? [/QUOTE] …? Do you know her? Because she just started posting again, like today. She had gone off to lick her wounds for a while after the big pit thread, I think. **olivesmarch4th**. And **OpalCat** , for a long time I assumed you were a permanently departed great. I saw “Hi, Opal!” everywhere but never anything from you. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/197 "2007-05-19T13:38:45Z")
Nope. I’m not exactly what you’d call a prolific poster, and I don’t have a specific “specialty” where my absence in a thread would be noticed. I’m just another poster with a really weird name 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/198 "2007-05-19T13:47:07Z")
[QUOTE=Angua] I doubt anyone would. I’m not witty or vitriolic enough to be remembered in MPSIMS or the Pit, and in GQ there are people who answer questions on my specialist subjects far more eloquently than I do. [/QUOTE] Like who? Phil Plait’s left, and then there are your culinary contributions. The store-bought lasagna I have in the fridge for tonight isn’t a patch on the recipe you posted (which seems to have been archived, and I no longer have). As for myself, I very much doubt I’d be missed. I used to be active on several other message boards and I’ve heard nary a peep. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/199 "2007-05-19T14:15:20Z")
[QUOTE=Angua] I doubt anyone would. I’m not witty or vitriolic enough to be remembered in MPSIMS or the Pit, and in GQ there are people who answer questions on my specialist subjects far more eloquently than I do. Apart from the SO maybe who’d wonder why I’d gone so quiet. [/QUOTE] Not true. You’d be sorely missed (at least by me) in GQ Astronomy threads, as well as in the more reasoned debates about or involving Islam. ETA: That makes two of us in a row… (I didn’t go to the end of the thread before posting my response!) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503/200 "2007-05-19T15:46:58Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] Nope, unless they were thinking _“Thank god that bitch hasn’t been around”_ [/QUOTE] Aw, come on, who would I have to stalk if you weren’t here! 😉 Oh, and it would take [about a month before I was missed.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=331103) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-would-notice-if-you-stopped-posting/404503.md?page=11)