- Number one reason why nobody posts to threads–they didn’t see something that interested them. It’s as simple as that, babe. You gotta learn not to take it personally when only 6 or 8 people post to one of your threads. If you’ll look at the threads that go up to 2 or 3 pages, you’ll see that they fall into one of two categories. They’re either “vote here”/poll-type threads, “what’s your favorite X?”, “join the club” threads, or they’re threads where two people get in an argument, and it just goes on and on and on, and other people join in, and newbies who just arrived find it at the bottom of page 5 and bump it back up…It isn’t necessarily because the lucky OP happened to think of the one hot topic that everybody in the whole wide world wanted to talk about.
So, don’t take it personal, OK?
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This is the BEST place on the Web. Don’t shoot yourself in the foot because you’re so busy wondering what everybody thinks of you that you lose track of which way the barrel is pointing. Don’t worry what people think of you or your threads. Don’t interpret the fact that tons of oldbies don’t rush up to post every time a Silo thread appears as rejection. Just say what you’ve got to say, and devil take the hindmost.
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I’m like Casdave, I wasn’t here for the Michael Masterson incarnation, so I dunno from trolls. What I’ve seen of your stuff as Silo is fine, except for this teeny little tendency towards juussstt a slight whiff of martyrdom. I’d be down here hollerin’ atcha ta get off the fukkin kraws, we knead the would, except that you haven’t been that bad, so in good conscience, I can’t. But you’re verging perilously, dude, I haveta tellya. 'Kay? 
Get up on the podium, make the statement–“Hi, my name’s Silo, and I used to be a troll”–and then get down off the frickin podium, we need it for Dr. Laura, who is expected here at any minute. (All those 10,000 screaming fans out in the parking lot aren’t here for you, babe. Sorry. I know it was one of your dreams. Not everybody can be a worldbeater.)
Here’s a thread-posting hint: it’s the same thing as your high school English teacher used to tell you. “Write what you know.” Don’t try to think of what OTHER people want to talk about. Post what YOU want to talk about. If you post a Pit rant, make it on something that really, truly grinds your gut. Even if the style is lacking, the emotion will come through and people will respond to it.
Resign yourself to the fact that by far the VAST majority of threads in MPSIMS, GQ, and IMHO get about 6 to 8 responses, and then slowly slide down the page into oblivion. You can’t expect every topic to be a winner. Just post what really interests you, and if nobody responds, well, that just means that nobody else wants to talk about Spam, or meter readers, or whatever. (Those were a couple of my “worldbeaters”. But hey, I’m over it. Aren’t I?)
Didn’t you ever sit around a kitchen table with a big group of people, talking, and throw out a thought, and maybe one person said, “Um, well,” and added something, and then the conversation went right back to where it was, and it was as if you hadn’t even spoken? Happens to me all the time. That’s what is happening when nobody posts to one of your threads. Shrug, drink some more beer, and wait for another chance to contribute. Don’t take it personal.
Oh, and so Esprix doesn’t worry that this is turning into a Love Fest–shape up, Silo, you troll-felching offspring of a gerbil-eating yak herder and his syphilitic mother, whose sagging breasts trip her while she walks and whose female parts compare unfavorably with spoiled Limburger for aroma and with a puddle of dog’s vomit for looks.