When do you bail out of a thread?

[SimonDoom]

I'll stick around until people get nasty and personal with one another. I don't mind a little thread derailment or repetition.

 

[Omenainen]

Also, @Five_Inch_Heels and @TheLobster, your pictures look kind of similar to me so I keep confusing which said what. I don’t think I’m the only one with kind of bad eyesight browsing on my phone, so if that bothers you, you might consider changing the profile pic.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Are Lobster claws strong enough to snap a steel heel?

 

[NuclearFairy]

I wasn’t going to be posting anything until later on but this… this is so freaking true. They’re basically tin boxes that have wheels, engines, they run off oil and petrol and can literally EXPLODE?!!

Not to mention that if you ARE a careful/slow driver you have to be aware of the C U next Tuesdays who really can’t drive and treat the motorway like silverstone race track. GAWD!

But yeah anxiety’s do not make sense. I also don’t drive myself.

Also, sometimes reading about other people’s bad days actually helps when you’re having one too. It reminds you you’re not the only one struggling, and weirdly, that can make things feel a bit lighter. So even if it feels hard to share, it might mean more to someone else than you think. No normal person will point and laugh at you, it’s also important to remember that one persons worst day ever could be another persons “normal” or vice Versa! Worlds full of silly people but sharing the bad and having a giggle and realising it really isn’t all that bad is helpful too! Shame the thread didn’t do well, I would have posted there too!

Thanks, that's really quite helpful to hear.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

And then there are those in which you never tread to begin with.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

This place seems to have turned in a backslapping and self-admiration contingency where swelled heads are all too common.

 

[Nynah]

This place seems to have turned in a backslapping and self-admiration contingency where swelled heads are all too common.

It's clear you have some sort of chip on your shoulder about the attention some regular posters here get. Do you think making passive aggressive posts indirectly calling those posters names is the right play? Because all it does is make you look bitter.

I'm not sure what you're looking to get out of AH. If you just want to grouse at people not responding to your posts in the way you want them to, then by all means, carry on. But if you honestly want to be part of the conversations, then make an effort instead of creating sulky threads like "When do you bail out of a thread?" or "Where did all the fun threads go?" because quite frankly that is behavior I expect out of a child who isn't getting their way rather than an adult posting on a forum for adults.

 

[AwkwardMD]

It's clear you have some sort of chip on your shoulder about the attention some regular posters here get. Do you think making passive aggressive posts indirectly calling those posters names is the right play? Because all it does is make you look bitter.

I'm not sure what you're looking to get out of AH. If you just want to grouse at people not responding to your posts in the way you want them to, then by all means, carry on. But if you honestly want to be part of the conversations, then make an effort instead of creating sulky threads like "When do you bail out of a thread?" or "Where did all the fun threads go?" because quite frankly that is behavior I expect out of a child who isn't getting their way rather than an adult posting on a forum for adults.

Alienate Everyone speedrun any%

 

[Erotic4emos]

When people aren't talking about the subject just being assholes, and attention chasing.

 

[Gamblnluck]

I find that beyond there, not much is worthwhile. Sometimes I'll read a bit farther to see if anything changes.

I often see a couple pages of responses before I even get started. What I find more of a put-off are the numbers of posts that are one-line quips where the posters want to try to out-do or upstage somebody else with their brilliant wit. I don't mind at all responses to responses and might read through multiple pages of them.

 

[TiberiusPrime]

Usually between 10,000 and 14,000 feet. That gives you a decent freefall time...

 

[M_K_Babalon]

When it gets boring, gets too long, when I feel like it, when it's the same shit that should be pinned at the top in a or several megathreads. Or something I don't wanna see, like that Be Kind thread.

 

[SinclairGroupLLP]

Wait, you can unsubscribe to threads?

 

[NuclearFairy]

Wait, you can unsubscribe to threads?

At the top of each thread page to the right there is a watch or unwatch button. Just to the left of that if there is anything new in the thread is a jump to new button. It's on the same line basically as the page numbers, just to the right instead of the left, and only at the top.

 

[SinclairGroupLLP]

At the top of each thread page to the right there is a watch or unwatch button. Just to the left of that if there is anything new in the thread is a jump to new button. It's on the same line basically as the page numbers, just to the right instead of the left, and only at the top.

I am fucking blind.

You are amazing.

 

[NuclearFairy]

I am fucking blind.

You are amazing.

I'm sure everyone has those little moments of, "How did I not see that?"

 

[TheLobster]

At the top of each thread page to the right there is a watch or unwatch button.

But that button does nothing of note if you aren't already watching a thread, does it? As far as I know you cannot hide the thread from the overall list (i.e., this page), and you cannot opt-out of notifications whenever someone replies or reacts to your posts in the thread.

Unless I'm mistaken, all it does is undoing your previous explicit action of watching the thread for every reply. If you're never taken that action, you cannot ignore the thread even more.

 

[Erozetta]

and you cannot opt-out of notifications whenever someone replies or reacts to your posts in the thread.

Yeah you can. Go to the bell, click preferences and uncheck every option you don't want an alert for.

I get 0 alerts.

 

[TheLobster]

Yeah you can. Go to the bell, click preferences and uncheck every option you don't want an alert for.

I get 0 alerts.

These are global settings that apply to every thread, not a particular one that you want to ignore. If you uncheck these:



then you won't get any notifications anywhere, and ignoring the entire forum is not quite what I'm after

 

[stickygirl]

You can always put the person who started the thread on iggy. Their thread then disappears

 

[Erozetta]

These are global settings that apply to every thread, not a particular one that you want to ignore. If you uncheck these:

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then you won't get any notifications anywhere, and ignoring the entire forum is not quite what I'm after

Yeah, complete silence is what I was after. But the way you worded it implied you couldn't turn off those notifications at all. And you can, it's just across the board.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Um, usually when I start seeing red stiletto, platform heels in the response avatars.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Always an indication that things might go sideways.

Um, usually when I start seeing red stiletto, platform heels in the response avatars.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Cut out about 10 more.