# Please help me find an invisible (?) thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2009, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-an-invisible-thread/493126 "2009-04-14T23:45:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PandaMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@PandaMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaMom)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-an-invisible-thread/493126/21 "2009-04-17T15:58:05Z")
" prefer to use a natural or beige thread, or a color that matches one of the fabrics, myself. That invisible thread (comes in two invisible colors, clear and dark) is too stiff for my liking. " I agree. I always use a neutral color for quilting. The invisible thread is too… uh… boring. I haven’t used it for beading though. My eyes are too out of focus to handle doing beading!!! ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-an-invisible-thread/493126/22 "2009-04-17T18:51:21Z")
> [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](#): > > I did not post the thread to advertise anything, or I would have outright asked for people to “please please buy my stuff!” I would have liked to have put the images to a photosharing site, sure! But there’s 22 items per shop, so over 40 altogether. Something tells me I’d run out of available bandwidth before then. If I just took a snapshot of the front page, you’d only be able to see the tiny thumbnails. I wanted advice on the site layout AND the item quality, and I posted the links because that was the easiest way I saw how to do that. > > I’ve been a member here for a few years now, and I’ve never been out of line for anything on here. Why would I suddenly decide, “Hey! I’m going to underhandedly try to get people to buy from my shop! Yeah!” Give me a break. I’m insulted that this would even be suggested of me, to be honest. I’m sure you’ve “seen it happen”, **Lynn** , but I’m not one of those people. I don’t think a person should be treated with suspicion unless they’ve given a reason to be. > > And now that the thread’s gone, I can’t copy down any of the suggestions I got, either, which doesn’t help me at all. I agree with you completely. What I would like to know is why did Lynn “disappear” the thread instead of removing the link??? It’s obvious to any reasonable observer that the thread’s purpose was NOT to sell your wares. Lynn made a mistake and now she’s too stubborn to admit it, instead getting all annoyed over the fact that I didn’t bold her name :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-an-invisible-thread/493126/23 "2009-04-18T01:41:07Z")
Maybe you could give a copy of the thread to AFG? Just in case there were answers she could make use of? Since clearly she meant no wrong. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-an-invisible-thread/493126/24 "2009-04-18T13:34:05Z")
I have done just that – I emailed her a copy. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-an-invisible-thread/493126/25 "2009-04-18T14:05:24Z")
Do people wander the Internet all day just to find things to shit them off? ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-an-invisible-thread/493126/26 "2009-04-18T15:54:57Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > I have done just that – I emailed her a copy. Just got it…thanks! ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-an-invisible-thread/493126/27 "2009-04-18T18:31:13Z")
As a message board operator, I completely support the SDMB’s stance on advertising. Why is advertising here okay for **OpalCat** , though? Are mods more tolerant of rules violations from SDMB celebrities? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-an-invisible-thread/493126/28 "2009-04-18T18:55:05Z")
> [@PandaMom](#): > > I don’t know anything about the thread… but I DO know that you can get invisible thread at any fabric store! Is that what the Emperor’s New Clothes were made of? ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-an-invisible-thread/493126/29 "2009-04-18T20:03:20Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > As a message board operator, I completely support the SDMB’s stance on advertising. > > Why is advertising here okay for **OpalCat** , though? Are mods more tolerant of rules violations from SDMB celebrities? I wonder that myself. I’ve seen a number of threads pointing to **OpalCat** [products](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=504717), or [some scheme to make money](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=509332). Not to mention the number of threads she starts advertising her art shows -which, in case you don’t know, are places people BUY art. If **OpalCat** can consistently do it, why can’t **Amazon Floozy Goddess**? It makes me wonder if **OpalCat** has something over the SDMB or Lynn Bodoni. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-an-invisible-thread/493126/30 "2009-04-19T11:08:12Z")
Heh. ISWYDT 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-an-invisible-thread/493126/31 "2009-04-20T11:43:32Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > OK, accepted. I was just wondering why you’d bold one name, and not the other. I try to be consistent in such things, and it drives me right up the wall when I notice that I did something one way one time, and then another way another time. Not to speak for **nyctea scandiaca** , who has already responded anyway, but it seemed to me that what they did was perfectly consistent. When making use of the full username “ **Amazon Floozy Goddess** ”, it was bolded, but when addressing you by your real life first name “Lynn” (I believe it’s not you’re _real_ real life first name, from something you posted in a recent thread, but close enough), it was not bolded. Makes sense to me, it’s something I would consider doing myself, if I felt I “knew” a poster well enough to address them in a thread by their real life name. Because I don’t post a huge amount and therefore don’t feel this way about any poster, I follow my own convention of always posting (and bolding) the full username. > [@Cicero](#): > > Do people wander the Internet all day just to find things to shit them off? Best example of a rhetorical question I’ve seen in a while :). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-an-invisible-thread/493126.md?page=1)