Me?
I get depressed.
I spend some time putting my thoughts and words together to make a post, and want that thing up there… forever.
That’s my baby.
Nothing depresses me more than spending an afternoon doing stuff outside of the board and then coming back here and seeing my post of page two… buried.
Boo!!
I don’t even mind if it’s a good post and it’s gone on for a while. After a week and I see it start to fall, I mourn.
Am I alone?
What makes it worse is when you just know that the stuff that has bumped it off is just worthless claptrap. 
On the one hand, I feel flattered to see my post go to page 2. It means there was a lot to be said about it. It was popular or famous, even if not well liked.
However, once a thread goes to page 2, I usually stop reading it & posting to it. Too much trouble. I consider it old and ready to be retired.
Ahh, I meant page two in the sense of status, not length.
There’s a bunch of jokes there…
I think you mean page 2 of a given forum.
Page 2 in the sense of status would indicate that the post is somehow inferior by the fact of it’s being on page 2 of a forum. This is not so.
Many fine posts are currently languishing on page 2 (and higher) merely because they have been misunderstood by unappreciative readers who have failed to respond in the manner anticipated.
I don’t know – I kind of feel depressed about it, on the one hand. On the other hand, I have kind of a low self esteem, and have a tendency to imagine that everything I post is being read with contempt by greater minds than mine, so sometimes it is a relief to see my threads drop off the radar. 
I hear ya! Especially about the unappreciative readers. I think what sometimes happens–especially in the case of a long OP–is that people just scan through it instead of reading the whole thing. I’m sure this is what happened when I posted something about a book I was going to write on home remedies for children’s maladies. See, if people had read the entire post, they would have understood that it was all a joke. For example, one of the “remedies” I posted for constipation in babies was to get low on your supply of diapers. Any parent of an infant or toddler knows that when you have three diapers left, the kid will let fly like there’s no tomorrow. But apparently I had a bunch of scanners because the responses I got were few and had nothing whatever to do with the humorous nature of the OP. One even told me that I’d better use a disclaimer on my “book” so as to avoid a lawsuit from the authors of that other home remedy book. :rolleyes:
I had wanted people to look at the post seriously at first and then laugh when they realized what I really meant. But no one got the joke because they didn’t read the whole thing! I suppose I should’ve posted WARNING: THIS IS ALL A JOKE! at the top but that would have ruined the whole thing. Since I didn’t do that, however, I got all of five replies–one from myself!–and the post was on page two before the week was out.
i hate it whwen my psts fzll to page 2 be4cause ispend so much time dcrafting them and gwetting thm just right and then theyr’e gone jsut like that!/
Sheesh, page 2? I get a little sad when it strays to the bottom of page one. If it goes down that far it never seems to come back (not the ones I start, anyway).
Yeah! I know the feeling. A couple of months ago, I returned to the Boards with a major announcement (that I bought a house and was getting married). I used to post fairly often, and thought a few people would like to know what was going on with me. I got a total of three replies and my post dropped like a rock.
So then I killed myself.
You got better though, right?