Hehe… This is like belonging to a really cool club but not being allowed to touch the 20-year-old scotch… Yet.
dantheman, done and done. 
FEH I guess I’m never going to get my flirting merit badge.
My employer inconsideratly expects me to work when I’m here. Don’t they know I have important business to take care of?
Sorry, FairyChatMom, I’ll just leave these Euphoria chocolate truffles here on the side table.
<bumbazine shuffles off, head hanging. sigh >
::runs in and whisks the truffles off the table::
Mmmmmm… chocolate! Whee!
Dammit! Those are MY Care Bears, and MY PoohBear! Keep your grubby virus-ridden hands OFF, scratchie. You’re a dick.
Rasa, you can play with my bears anytime. Just don’t share 'em with scratchie until he’s over his cold, ok?
Obviously I don’t have much experience as an active Doper, but I’ve been a lurker here for a couple of years. I’ve participated on a number of bulletin boards and forums, and the dynamics are basically the same in all of them. In my experience, a lot of the “odd man out” feeling stems from one’s perception of his/her place (or lack thereof) in the community. I’ve killed more than a few threads in my time at various sites, but once I felt accepted and one of the gang, it didn’t bother me like it did when I was a newbie. When one doesn’t really know anyone on a forum, a lack of response can seem rather unfriendly.
Take, for example, this post, my third. If I don’t get a response, I can either a) curl up in a fetal position and cry myself to sleep; b) decide that the people here don’t like me and leave, never to return; or c) post again somewhere else on the SDMB. If one uses option c often enough, one eventually becomes an accepted member of the group. After that happens, being a thread killer won’t sting as much. 
Hi, tigerlilly!
Um, got any chocolate? Or did Rasa pinch all the truffles?
And dantheman, you just wait until that deal goes down 
Damn! I go home to feed my nice doggies and tend to my nice family and what happens?? I lose my first real SD flirt and Rasa runs off with my chocolates. Is this what beinG nice gets me??
<pout>
Tigerlilly and Blackclaw: Don’t worry, at times I don’t feel “invited” either, and I’ve been here for eons.
Dire Wolf: calls off the unicorn Stop poking at Mr Wolf! How rude of you!
I’m glad you like the food! :^)
Fairy Princess Kitty: (((((((hugs))))))) Thanks, babe.
everyone knows that Evil=Sexy
then there’s Welfy… she’s just sexy no matter what she wears or how she acts
Well… if it’s going to make a FairyChatMom cry, I must give back the truffles. Something about a crying fairy mom just doesn’t work for me. Sorry FCM! The chocolates are all yours.
And Crack’d, you can keep the Care Bears and the viral oldscratch… for one more week!
Has anyone seen my Shriekback CD?
Thanks Welfy.
I’m saying hi to LaurAnge so she doesn’t think no one likes her and hi to Tiger Lily so she doesn’t curl up in the fetal position.
I shall spend the rest of the night fretting if I guessed the wrong gender and thus used the wrong pronouns. If so, I apologize in advance.
Well it was my first real SD flirt too. I thought we did rather well at it, considering. At least we didn’t entirely look like a couple of kids paddling around in the shallow end with our water wings on, did we? 
Never fear Dear, I’m sure a lady of your spirit and wit will have plenty of hapless swains in your power before too much longer, and I’ll be relegated to worshipping you from afar once more. sigh
Besides, you’re what? 4 hours ahead of me?
(Actually, women have been ahead of me all my life.
Four hours must mean I’m catching up.)
Here, let’s sit down and sample these truffles, shall we?
Thank you, Rasa, please take one yourself.
And I brought a nice bottle of wine, too.
Have some Madeira, My Dear?
Well kunilou, have you got your answer, or have you given up on this thread in disgust?
I’ve seen many, many Dopers post variations on the same question, so I think many people feel the same way from time to time. Personally, I hardly ever care who the last poster was. Whether I post to a thread depends on what I have to say, if anything, or if I think of something I believe might provide a laugh to the other Dopers.
I might avoid a thread if I think it was started or taken over by a troll, but I certainly don’t think anybody thinks you are a troll.
Sorry for the hijack earlier.
BTW, I’m claiming this thread as my kill!
Tigerlilly, what you have to do is what I do–post and damn the consequences!
OTOH, I still feel like a total outsider ALL of the time.
But no, my sweet… as my first, you will always hold a special place of honor. [sub](Provided you do nothing to inspire my wrath)[/sub]
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I also thank you, Rasa. I forgive you, for as a long-time chocoholic, I know what a battle it is to resist.
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Is that your beard tickling my earlobe??
Bumbazine, you have charmed me again…
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Hoo. sniff Sorry.
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!
FairyChatMom, these few bright shining moments will always hold a special place in my heart. Unfortunately, I have prior promises to keep this evening. May you and yours have a wonderous Christmas and Happy New Year!
Until we meet again.
<Bumbazine kisses FCM’s hand and departs, with one *long[/i[ backward glance.>