# Reply or don't look **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 8, 2000, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726 "2000-06-08T05:57:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/41 "2000-06-08T18:42:15Z")
OK here are some possible posts that I’ve restrained myself from making: \*Interesting thread, keep it coming posters. I came back to see if anyone commented on my post. Nobody did, wonder why. Good dialog. Did you see my post? Well the title of the thread was obscure, so I took a look, but really I have no interest in or knowledge of the subject. I’m posting though because I’m a sweetie. I have nothing to say really, but wanted to let you know I was here. Um, well, what s/he said, but more.\* I mean weawwy qwisp, it would be kinda boahwing, doncha think? ---
**Author:** ![Tally-Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@Tally-Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tally-Ho)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/42 "2000-06-08T19:50:03Z")
😃 Chrisbar ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/43 "2000-06-08T22:23:26Z")
Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Val2K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3da27b/32.png) [@Val2K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Val2K)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/44 "2000-06-08T22:30:33Z")
I was going to reply with one of those “I’m not going to reply. . . oops” posts but at this point it would be overkill. ---
**Author:** ![tak29813](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@tak29813](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tak29813)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/45 "2000-06-08T22:41:24Z")
Reading this cost me twenty minutes of my life that I will never get back. Thank you for nothing. (Maybe I should bill back at my usual rate of $150 per hour, naahh, too much hassle. And besides, I fell into the trap and replied anyway.) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Pebs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Johnny\_Pebs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Pebs)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/46 "2000-06-09T00:19:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Do you know why a chicken coup has only two doors? > > Answer to come later. > \*\* If it four doors it would be a sedan. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/47 "2000-06-09T00:42:41Z")
I looked. I replied. I ran away to join the cyber-circus. ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/48 "2000-06-09T00:46:20Z")
this not a quote, any rendering to be a quote is the misunderstanding of the reader of this quote. i am not to be held liable for this quote. Tubagirl is not responsible for this quote… ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/49 "2000-06-09T01:54:44Z")
Welf on! _clap clap_ Welf off! _clap clap_ Welf on, Welf off, the Welfer! _clap clap_ ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/50 "2000-06-09T02:06:28Z")
What a joy to follow the sweet Welfy! Night, Qwisp. ---
**Author:** ![galadriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@galadriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galadriel)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/51 "2000-06-09T02:10:46Z")
'Kay, you got me. But, if I may be so bold as to venture a suggestion (and this is meant in the most sincere way) if you started a thread with an interesting question/subject, folks would reply anyway and it might make for a dynamic and animated discussion!? 😃 However, since I took the time to post a reply (I’m not complaining, I enjoyed it and my current post count is a bit low) perhaps you wouldn’t mind posting on MY messageboard, as at the mo there are only 2 msgs, and one of them’s from me. OK so I realise this is just shameless advertising on my part, but what the hell! You might enjoy my website as well! 🙂 [http://theportal.to/ThePurpleOne](http://theportal.to/ThePurpleOne) 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/52 "2000-06-09T02:11:43Z")
Or I could hit \ several times and run up your view count. :D:D ---
**Author:** ![Girlbysea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Girlbysea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlbysea)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/53 "2000-06-09T02:15:54Z")
Slowly opening the door… Peeking in the room… Slowing closing the door… Tiptoeing away… No one even knows I was here… ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/54 "2000-06-09T02:20:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\* > > Isn’t Qwisp an old cereal brand? > > > > I had to have \* something \* to say… > > \*\* > > Nope, that was [**Quisp**](http://www.chowhound.com/quisp/quisp.html)! > And, frankly, I don’t care if people respond, as much as I care that they _look_ at my threads. Then again, the chances of being looked at do increase dramatically if the thread is replied to so… > > 😉 > \*\* I don’t care what anyone says. It used to be called **QWISP** They changed the W to a U, I was crushed. 300 odd view 40 odd replies…hmmm For everyone who replied to my intoxicated request, Thank you, Thank you. For the rest off you people … ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/55 "2000-06-09T02:40:01Z")
Didn’t “hoo-ha or whatever his name is” start a thread along these lines? Except he cursed everyone who viewed without posting with bad luck–which hit me even though I posted in it twice. I think he got the curse as a Blue Light Special… ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/56 "2000-06-09T03:16:51Z")
Most often, I don’t have any desire to comment. I’m curious and read a good number of threads, but I don’t feel the need to sprinkle a little Ruffian in every one. I’m okay with a low post count. I’m secure with that. 🙂 (FWIW to the newer SDMB posters…I’ve been around for 2 1/2 years. Oh, maybe if you added my AOL posts to my orginal LauraRae posts here to my Ruffian posts they’d make a nice number…but I’m okay with what it is.) And honestly, it’s also busy-ness. If I posted to every thread I read, I’d never be offline. I spend enough time online as it is! ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/57 "2000-06-09T03:25:42Z")
Replying to a thread without saying anything of any real substance is my forte, my friend! Do a search on my name, then come back & tell me how many posts you found outside of MPSIMS. Oh, they’re there, but the numbers are reeeeeeeal low. Hope I made you feel better by boosting your reply count! Now I’m off to do another good deed. See you later! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726.md?page=2)