So thin skinned for someone who can’t seem to make themselves understood. If you want people to respond you need to make an effort to be understood.
A bunch of acronyms, no attempt, even when asked,to make it clear what you’re referring to, doesn’t exactly entice people to engage with you.
If you’d spent a little time reading the board, you’d have recognized that decent communication skills are sort of necessary to get people interested and engaged.
Why does this, most basic thing, need to be explained to you?
When my daughter was younger ( early teen) she would often come out with comments that were halfway through her thought process. We’d have to tell her that she needed to “bring us along” with what she was thinking instead of jumping in the middle and expecting us to already know what she meant.
It was still a violation, and your drawing attention to it was not inappropriate in that respect.
I did check out the link and it was a sincere attempt to get people together with chat/cams. But three bearded men drinking ice beer, smoking pot, and discussing the upcoming Cleveland Cavaliers basketball game did not hold my attention for long.
Years ago a member did some sort of mushrooms and posted afterwards. It was one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. Reading that first post got my hopes up (that he’d returned).
I’m not thin skinned I just think there’s a lot of stiff personalities I’ve come across. People that are prevalent on internet communications like message boards usually know exactly what tinychat is. I posted this on other forums and didn’t have to explain a single thing to anyone other than a few interested folks on what the other forums were.
I don’t understand the need to not have anyone go to any of other form of communication whether it be other message boards or chat rooms or some sort of social interaction. People on one message board just may also enjoy another one or a chat or a direct messaging situation.
Talking down to me like, “why do these simple things have to be explained to you?” Is not inviting and irritating. Do you find yourself feeling better about yourself once you’ve really shown me? :ugh:
I have never heard of Tiny Chat (see? I don’t even spell it correctly ;)). Seems like L33tsp3ak (or however it is supposed to be spelled). A hip slang for certain demographics online.
JLynn - clearly, the SDMB is not in that demographic ;). Proudly geeky; not exactly hip.
Now that you know that, what do you want to tell us about Tiny Chat? Can you explain it to me, someone who has never heard of it. I am a business guy and musician in his '50’s; humor me ;).
You came in with an unknown language and folks tried to “explain how the SDMB works” in terms of communication and tone. Please understand: long-timers here have seen folks coming from a bazillion places that are unintelligible at first - SHOUTY; l33ty; slangy, proudly non-English, snarky, trolly, etc. - so we didn’t know how to process your (unknown) Tiny Chat and snapped into “explain mode.”
Sounds like you were thinking “they think they need to explain something to ME? What’s up with THEM?”
Well, hopefully now you know. Welcome to the SDMB. Do you primarily want to discuss Tiny Chat or are you here for other reasons, too?
I see the mistake you’re making. See, around here, we don’t really like each other very much. Mostly we just tolerate one another to pass the time between posts.
A search describes it as “XERQ is your source for real-time engaging, ridiculous internet discussions.” While many of the threads would doubtless meet this threshold, I think I’ll pass.
Wait you stroll in here to garner support for a chat cam thing, use numerous acronyms which, you still can’t be arsed to clarify. Then whing about everbody being less than communicative or receptive to YOU?
‘Everybody usually knows what these things mean, I didn’t have to explain a single thing on some other boards…’ Who’s talking down to others? When people refuse to clarify things to their audience, when asked are just playing at being superior. Making people have to ask, ‘what does that mean?’ Is a pretty transparent, overused tactic.
And not thin skinned? But what about the times you flouced out of your own threads because you didn’t like how someone responded? Kinda juvenile response, especially when used more than once.
Different demographics, perhaps. People here tend to be a bit older. I’ve been on this board for 12 years now and have been using home computers nearly since they came into existence; I’ve never heard of ‘tinychat’. Perhaps it’s common enough among folks in their 20s, but for someone like me who has no interest in video chat or even in texting, it’s not exactly something that would be on my screen (pun intended). Hell, I don’t even use Skype. It’s not unreasonable to ask for clarification, IMO.
I just checked it out. Imagine MPSIMS with about a 2:1 ratio of animated gif avatars to actual posts, no grammar, and about a 70% reduction in thought.