This, coming from a mod? 
Adam
Agent Foxtrot, I always notice your posts because you’re a fellow Baltimoron.
How’s your Dad, by the way?
You wanted to be noticed, didn’t you? Sure, you’d quickly be universally reviled and eventually banned, but no one would say you went unnoticed…
(No one ever said I was a good mod.)
Hah. I notice them too because you’re local. I notice most of the locals including norinew, Urban, DancesWC, Q&Elf Family, Dave&Ging, whynot, who-me, mhendo, wendell, and several others who should feel totally slighted and take it personally because I didn’t list them.
I don’t know why your posts don’t get noticed. Some posts do. Some don’t. Maybe you’re too reasoned and uncontroversial.
My posts that get quoted tend to be intentionally inflammatory, flat-out retarded, once-in-a-blue-moon mildly humorous, or so perfectly righteous and wise that they must be repeated.
Funny, I see Peter of the Fox Trot comic strip. Then again, I was never an X Files fan…
I can relate to Adam because he and Mississippienne share living quarters and occasionally post under each other’s screen name because someone forgets to log out. Long Time First Time and I have separate residences, but I’m frequently using either her office or home computer, and similar incidents of mistaken identity occasionally ensue. Fortunately, none of her veterinary pronouncements or accounts of breast-feeding experiences have ever appeared under the Sternvogel imprimatur.
Sheesh, I recognise easily every one of you in this thread. Familiar names all around, and I usually take note.
But I must not respond often.
I think I’m usually pretty low on the radar. Sometimes I start threads just to see if I can get 15 people to view them. Then, a week later, I start a new thread and see if I can beat that record.
I kid. This place is immense. There are many people who feel similarly, I’m certain. But I, for one, take notice of everyone in this thread so far.
Often, I’ll read a post that I really appreciate, but I hesitate to post just to say “good point” or “well said” or “LOL”; if everybody did that, the board would soon be awash with trivial posts that say nothing.
Did you get your new sewing machine figured out? The thread still breaking?
Well said.
Heh. :smack:
Yes, but I just bought a book for beginners about figuring your way around a sewing machine, and I think I had the threads pulled to the wrong side when I began sewing. I haven’t given it a whirl yet, though, since I also bought a “Knitting For Dummies” book, and I’m having a blast with that. 
I feel that way too sometimes. I remember once, someone had a knitting question. I was the first to reply and also answered her question correctly. A few hours later, someone else replied, with the same information. OP’s response was “Thanks Poster #2 Who is not Hello Again!” I was like, “hey! WTF!?” Its not like I expect a bouquet of flowers but every now and again I enjoy it when my posts are even noticed. I actually got quite excited when not 1 but 2 people acknowledged a post in a recent thread.
I’m pretty sure no one is “ignore”-ing me, I rarely post on controversial subjects and I’ve never been pitted in all my years.
sigh
This is often the case in some of the…ahem…more vigorous threads I become involved in in the Pit. When several people are going at it hot and heavy and someone else comes along and posts something in a relatively benign style, it can seem more like he/she is just offering an observation rather than trying to encourage comment by the other posters. Also, if you enter an intense discussion and your post is on the side of the majority, there might be an inclination on the part of the minority poster(s) to let your post slide rather than add to the number of posters the minority guys have to try to keep up with.
Also, what Thudlow Boink said.
For the record, you, norinew and AHunter3 are very familiar names to me.
I’ve been seeing “Idiot’s Guide to” various things, including knitting, and I’ve wondered if they’re pretty much the same as the Dummies books. Anybody know?
Back on topic, sorta. I don’t worry so much about responses as I do about starting a thread, or asking a question within a thread, and then forgetting to go back and see if anyone responded. I hate ignoring people worse than I hate being ignored.
HelloAgain, I’ll bet that’s happened to just about everybody.
AuntiePam, you can go to your user control panel (User CP, if you’re not already familiar with it), click on Edit Options and subscribe to each thread you post to with the option to receive email notification of new replies to those threads.
I don’t know what I’d have to do to get people to notice me – strip and masturbate in the middle of a thread, I guess.
Oh well, I can take some solace in being the resident Gay Spelling Nazi[sup]TM[/sup].
(bolding mine)
There’s a Gay way to spell stuff?
A lot of my posts tend to go unnoticed, too. I guess everybody falls into invisibility now and then.
I have the same problem. I recently posted in a Pit thread on page 1 or 2 and never got a reply or a notice. It was like I was talking to myself. It was a somewhat lengthy thread and bupkus.
Hey-where you guys going? Guys?
Hey!
<sigh>
What, am I the only person who got the email directive from Tuba to ignore him? Check your inboxes, folks.
I agree with Eureka and the other HOs in this thread. The sure-fire ways to get noticed are to either: a) post like an ass, b) open a lot of threads, or c) flood the board with posts. There are other, better ways, but they take lots of work.
The bizarre thing about this thread is that the posters that have mentioned not getting noticed are some of the posters I take special notice of (albeit silently): Foxtrot, norinew, and AHunter3. I always find it weird to look at a poster’s name and then start listing off in my head the things I know about that poster.
I recognize, heck, everybody in this thread. Some of you I even like (I kid!). But the thing is, I don’t post very much, and it’s pretty random whether or not I decide to respond to something. I’m always sure there’s someone smarter or more succinct who’ll get to it.
A lot of people are probably reading your posts and recognizing you, but they just don’t have the impulse to put themselves out there for scrutiny. Who knows how many lurkers there are? Usually I find myself saying something like “god, why did I even post that?” to myself moments after hitting submit, and fearing reprisal.
This is a pretty fast-moving community and it’s hard to keep up sometimes, for me even though I read pretty regularly. norinew makes a good point about certain thread types, but it’s always good to offer new opinions anyway. Even if you don’t think people are reading you’re helping to make this place richer and more interesting.