coughs Don’t you guys, you know, sit over there, with the rest of the dweebs?
susan, it’s not that you aren’t memorable, it’s that your user name isn’t. And your location isn’t very enlightening. I tend to remember the posters with weird names, and the ones who are near me or places I’ve been/lived. As soon as I looked through your previous posts I remembered you, though.
<sneers> not if that means sitting with YOU!
Just kidding. I’ll sit with anyone who practices good personal hygiene and doesn’t want to get in my pants. (I do have my standards!) 
I think a lot of it will be washed away by the influx of bewildered newbies we get when the board goes free-to-post.
But for now, I refuse to be a member of any clique that would stoop to consider admitting me.
I don’t think it’s “cliquey”, but I do think it’s intimidating.
Still, being intimidated never shut me up before so I guess it won’t now.
2 strikes and I’m out, then.
And then there is the 99ers, a.k.a. the Nobility, or the Illuminati.
You forgot “…and an abortion” in there somewhere.
Maybe not. Are you cute?
Mangetout: you and Groucho Marx! 
Cute covers a multitude of sins, but at least for me…lack of good hygiene practices is not one of them. 
Dang, missed it by >8 months< that much.
:: does secret masonic Mafia handshake with Hal ::
d&r
When I first arrived, it seemed like everyone knew each other and had these huge back stories that intertwined. However, I realized with time that it just came across that way and that overall, the Dope isn’t cliquish at all. I’m sure I could quit posting tomorrow and no one would even remember I was here, because I’ve seen that happen with hugely popular members, let alone a little nobody like me. Perhaps a lot of people fall into that category. Or at least feel that way.
I felt the same way, but far from doing it deliberately, I’ve not seen people do it at all.
As you’d expect from a community this size, my posts have gotten a whole range of responses, but never “Who are you? I’m not listening to someone I don’t know”
I thought you were part of the clique that is not a clique that has amassed over 30k clicks on submit reply. I think there is only three of you so far with 2-3 more getting close.
Faithfool I would definitely notice if you stopped posting, and lots of others who would consider themselves of little interest to others. Isn’t that the beauty of cyberspace and a place like this? Sure it always seems like no one notices our posts, or that what we were just about to say was said quicker and more eloquently by another, or that we are threadkillers.
But I’m pretty sure that it only seems that way. Or maybe I just want to believe that, hmmm.
But I’d be willing to bet that no matter how little you post someone, at some time, thought your input was just the right thing to say at just that moment, and they just didn’t point it out to you.
::does secret Masonic Mafia handshake with Diggit AND Hal::
We’re gettin’ the band back together!!
I’m only recently starting to feel like anyone knows my name. And even then, sightings of this are rare. But that’s cool, because I’m really getting to know the Mafia crowd. Having a “clique” (don’t get me wrong, all are welcome–come and play!) makes it easier to get to know a group of people a little better. Otherwise, all several thousand of you start to blend together!
I doubt it’s recognized by its members, but I nominate the Cult of Obama as a clique.
That’s tongue-in-cheek, by the way. Going by post history alone, it might seem like I belong to the Clinton Apologists.
Okay, you whooshed me. Care to 'splain?
Me, too–but then I thought I had just missed something along the line.
May I say I think there is a growing Mafia clique within THIS thread?
<looks around with paranoid eyes>
Hey, I was a Mason too!
Not with you guys though.
essell, I didn’t mean people ignore newer posters actively; I meant more along the lines of the fact that posters will tend to skim threads and respond to other posters they are familiar with. I don’t think anyone’s ever been deliberately ignored because of their newbie status.