Suggest or not, don't expect me to walk in lock step
I have precious little time to be on here and I enjoy this board immensely. So what I am saying right now is out of frustration for the fact that invariably it happens when some people have fun, someone wants to **** on their parade.
If Georgette or anyone else wants to come and make a suggestion that is their right. I won't follow their rules however. Just because someone somewhere made up nettiquette about message boards doesn't mean that all boards run by those rules - nor do they have to. So suggest all you want and then expect to be disappointed. Period. Paragraph.
I have been on boards that rely on OT in subject lines. I hate them. I avoid them like the plague because my point of being on a board is much like being in a room full of friends. I don't have to raise my hand and tell someone I'm taking a tangent in a conversation, I just do it. If I had to do that in real life, I wouldn't be among friends.
I just have been spending some time trying to angel for someone on my surgeon's message board. Do you think I could get a response from these people? Do you think any ONE of them would bother saying CRAP to me? Not a chance. They freaking ignore every comment question or supportive hug I post there and it makes me quite surly. 
I had one post where someone asked a question and I tried to answer as best I could (which wasn't helpful, but it was acknowledging the person's post at least) and all that person did was repost her question again above mine completely ignoring me and just trying to keep her question on top.
So that's nettiquette. Forget it. I like this place and the upbeat personalities that help get me out of the funk the rest of the message boards can throw me into. No one likes to be ignored and no one likes to be left out. When other people are feeling that way the ONLY thing they have to do here is come in and say "hi" and they will get lots of responses talking them up.
So follow someone else's rules? Not a chance. You can kiss mine. I have enough facts and can research out most everything myself. Anything else I can ask a direct question and get a direct answer. What I do need is support, love, encouragement and HUMOR to get me through this. If that doesn't suit some lurker's presence, then maybe they need to stop lurking and either post and get to know us rather than criticizing us or leave.
No board will be perfect and had anyone asked me last week what would happen with this one, I would have predicted this crap would happen only because some people can't simply allow others to enjoy themselves. And rather than trying to join in and see what all the fun is about, they choose to make assumptions about us and our intent rather than finding out for themselves.
Again, I reiterate - if you want me to follow some arbitrary rule you feel the need to share, prepare to be disappointed. It ain't happenin' from me.
Dina ----who works too damn much overtime and has too little time to get into a funk over these stinking downers.
I had one post where someone asked a question and I tried to answer as best I could (which wasn't helpful, but it was acknowledging the person's post at least) and all that person did was repost her question again above mine completely ignoring me and just trying to keep her question on top.
So that's nettiquette. Forget it. I like this place and the upbeat personalities that help get me out of the funk the rest of the message boards can throw me into. No one likes to be ignored and no one likes to be left out. When other people are feeling that way the ONLY thing they have to do here is come in and say "hi" and they will get lots of responses talking them up.
So follow someone else's rules? Not a chance. You can kiss mine. I have enough facts and can research out most everything myself. Anything else I can ask a direct question and get a direct answer. What I do need is support, love, encouragement and HUMOR to get me through this. If that doesn't suit some lurker's presence, then maybe they need to stop lurking and either post and get to know us rather than criticizing us or leave.
No board will be perfect and had anyone asked me last week what would happen with this one, I would have predicted this crap would happen only because some people can't simply allow others to enjoy themselves. And rather than trying to join in and see what all the fun is about, they choose to make assumptions about us and our intent rather than finding out for themselves.
Again, I reiterate - if you want me to follow some arbitrary rule you feel the need to share, prepare to be disappointed. It ain't happenin' from me.
Dina ----who works too damn much overtime and has too little time to get into a funk over these stinking downers. 
Um, make that TRIPLETS, Va... 
Dina...we must've been on the same mind-plane...I just posted something VERY similar to Renee'...
I'm not here to accommodate every drive-by's request. It doesn't take a lot to type "Hi, I'm Susie and I'm scared." I KNOW I'm a bit on the opposite end of that, but I'll no longer suffer drive-by critics and "proper" demands.
I'm PI and I like me that way. Doesn't seem to bother many others, either.
Kimmer
Gave Up Being PC For Lent...in 1966...
Zero-minus 11 and 5 workdays to go! 
Dina...we must've been on the same mind-plane...I just posted something VERY similar to Renee'...
I'm not here to accommodate every drive-by's request. It doesn't take a lot to type "Hi, I'm Susie and I'm scared." I KNOW I'm a bit on the opposite end of that, but I'll no longer suffer drive-by critics and "proper" demands.
I'm PI and I like me that way. Doesn't seem to bother many others, either.
Kimmer
Gave Up Being PC For Lent...in 1966...
Zero-minus 11 and 5 workdays to go! 
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