Do You Like To Collect Threads? And Who Should Have The Last Comment?

When Barry and Janet did the limericks back and forth that got even more people involved some being a surprise. As far as the mention I've wondered whether it would work without the symbol @ and it does.

@MarshaMusselman I just happened by. I enjoyed those limericks and wish Janet would stop by more often.

@DianneN oh so you were so saying "thanks for the mention" in the post not because it drew you here.

@MarshaMusselman Very true, and some people are just naturally better at it and make you feel more at ease and that keeps the thread going.

@Juliaacv I don't know that I make people feel at ease v but I can usually find something else to say or a question to ask to keep it going longer.

That could easily be it too or how long you've known them. It's also not always easy to know when someone is done with the conversation or not.

@MarshaMusselman I agree with you. We often start out on one subject and end up changing subjects several times.

@simone10 which is quite fine if the parties involved don't mind.

They can last weeks and months if we let them or if we can find something to say which I am full of words they might not make sense sometimes but we can usually keep the conversation going longer than most people would have quit.

@MarshaMusselman I agree that most of the time when people read and comment on old posts it's because they see it show up on the sidebar. I've done that myself a few times. But I also know that sometimes members will take the time to scroll back through other members old posts and leave comments. There is one member I know that is currently doing that with my discussions. She even commented to tell me she was going back through many of my old ones. I see a lot of new members doing that as well, as it helps them get to know the person better.

@moffittjc I'm guessing you're taking about rebelann as she does that a lot. She just found one I did back in 2016. The one thing about that particular post is I talk about working the night shift. I thought it was longer ago that I worked then not just four years. That may have been the year I went to Guatemala but I'm not sure.

I don't think there's any way of knowing easily without openings them all up. on the other hand if you're talking with someone like Anna some or I don't know some of the others that are here every day I would kind of guess that the threads are a daily edition and so if you see when the post started then you can gather how long it's been going on maybe a month or 2 months but they go back and forth depending on how long how often you are going back and forth with it but for knowing how long after I don't have any idea on that either. I also find that even if I've been commenting recently it doesn't hurt to go back and re-read the last comment or two that I've made because someone will say something to make me think of something and then I'll go back and read something I've said and realized I already said that before they're coming off what I said rather than the other way around so no sense in repeating myself 12 times but if I don't go back and look that might be what I've done. I believe when old posts are reply or responded to its when people are using their computers and the post shows up in their sidebar. on the phone that doesn't take place cuz there's not enough space and I know one person that responds on Old Post is Rebelann but I've done it to. I've gone back to old posts and then when I'm in there I respond but I see that it's two years old or whatever because the sidebar doesn't tell you, I don't think or who takes a look at the date anyway? This was all done voice to text so that's why the long sentences sometimes I go back and put periods and sometimes I just let it be at least it makes a little more sense than some of my typing does with all the typos.

With Anna we don't worry about time as they go on and on for many months. The problem is the times when we can't be here much and we lose a notification that we would have continued for awhile yet.

@CarolDM if we all kept threads going longer we probably wouldn't have time to visit with many others so we have to pick and choose.

@MarshaMusselman I think most of us understand we all need a break from time to time.

And that's okay too. They are not for everyone.

@MarshaMusselman It can be created.

@piyushbhatia1 what can be created? Threads or long conversations or something else maybe?

I think part of the reason it gets confusing is because it's not easy opening up all the previous comments. But also some pass is start new topic and that can confused some too.

@MarshaMusselman I agree

Some threads are easier to work with than others and that may be mainly due to the topic.

@MarshaMusselman Nope I do not

@amadeo well this was as small thread for you then. Not so hard, right?

Meaning you don't do threads nor make sure you have the last say?

@just4him have you asked Alex or bugs about this issue? I've seen others mention it too.

but do you think it's late errors or do you think it could be so many people on the internet at one point in time I don't really know usually my first page will take awhile to load and then after that page is loaded fairly well I don't know that that's my lot but I don't know what it is honestly.

@MarshaMusselman It happens throughout the day. I've seen it's happening mostly to my posts. Which is frustrating when I can't answer comments on them. There are other posts I can't get into also which is also annoying.

Overall I can help keep a thread going along if the other person does the same.

I've not been on Twitter in a very long time. I don't have time at present to do a lot on more than one site.

@sophie09 I don't do anything there at present not even going to look and I'm not posting either.

@MarshaMusselman me too, i only open it when i want to but not that often