# Your Participation in Online Communities (poll) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 19, 2020, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-participation-in-online-communities-poll/915735 "2020-07-19T05:46:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-participation-in-online-communities-poll/915735/1 "2020-07-19T05:46:45Z")
Do you mostly seek out communities where people think the way you do, or do you spend some online time engaging with people who don’t? If you engage sometimes with those who don’t, do you do that mostly in environments where a wide range of opinions are tolerated, or do you sometimes go into spaces where there’s close to a consensus and you’re not in it (you’re an outsider, perhaps viewed as invader or even troll)? If you “invade” do you do so to taunt and annoy or do you try to engage with the people you encounter there if they’re willing to do so? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-participation-in-online-communities-poll/915735/2 "2020-07-19T05:48:11Z")
That was supposed to have been a poll (but I never saw the option to make it one). I don’t guess it matters. Use the OP to shape your responses but I wanted people to freehand reply and elaborate on their answers anyhow. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-participation-in-online-communities-poll/915735/3 "2020-07-19T05:51:24Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > That was supposed to have been a poll (but I never saw the option to make it one). You can still make a poll. It’s under the gear symbol in the dialogue box. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-participation-in-online-communities-poll/915735/4 "2020-07-19T14:49:01Z")
If you make a poll, I’m clicking “Lurking and making helpful comments that are witty, but no one else thinks so.” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-participation-in-online-communities-poll/915735/5 "2020-07-19T15:14:45Z")
I’m a loner, Dottie. A rebel. This is the only community website I patronize, you lucky humans. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-participation-in-online-communities-poll/915735/6 "2020-07-19T16:03:36Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > This is the only community website I patronize, Same here. Years ago I frequented a “pro-life” message board, starting mostly as a troll, but eventually reformed and engaged in some respectful conversations.