How do you interact with the forums?

[AG31]

I just saw a post where someone mentioned "new posts." I had literally never clicked on it. I'd probably seen it, but forgot about it. How do you interact here? How often do you open forum.literotica.com?

Here's what I do:

I visit every day unless I'm on the road and have no internet access. (Can't imagine using my phone for this.) Usually I log in four or five times a day.

I immediately Show All in my Alerts and start working up from the bottom (oldest). I have a watch on 13 forums, but only a few get new threads regularly. I set watches on threads that look interesting, and write replies where I feel so moved. I explored some of the features in the menu to write this post. I see that there are lots of ways to approach forum membership.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Apparently poorly‽

 

[StillStunned]

I beat them into submission.

 

[crookedletter]

If you ever see me posting on this forum, you can bet I should either be working or writing.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Well, most of the time, while I'm writing, the AH thread is open on my computer. This way, it appears I'm on here all day, every day, but Sunday. But really, I only check on it now and again, refresh the page, and see what's up! I don't follow threads, but follow posts on threads I've posted in when they show up in bell-tab.

 

[StillStunned]

To give a more serious reply to @AG31's question: I generally have a tab with the forums open whenever I'm at my computer. And that's many hours a day, almost every day. I check new threads that sound interesting, check replies to threads I'm following, and reply or refrain from replying as the mood takes me.

Mostly I'm here in the AH, although I check the Editor's Forum (it still bugs this editor that it's "editor" singular) and a few other places. Never Politics or any of the specialist forums. Very occasionally the General forum, but that's mostly for the funnies.

At a rough guess, over the past two years I've spent approximately 370,000 hours here.

 

[ChuckWolf]

Usually click on New Posts or sometimes the What's New button.

Always look forward to replies/reactions to posts I've made.

Pretty much ignore all the political stuff.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I have six or eight forum sections that I 'Watch'.

My version of new posts (either 'Watched Threads' or 'Watched Forums'), only shows those, so I only see the ones I'm interested in.

 

[crookedletter]

If you ever see me posting on this forum, you can bet I should either be working or writing.

To more completely answer the question, I stick pretty much entirely to AH. I refresh it from time to time as I procrastinate on other tasks, look for reactions to my posts, look for updates to threads that look interesting to me. I don't care for the word games, and I usually skip out on threads as they get into pages 3+, as more often than not by that point they've devolved into pissing contests.

 

[MrPixel]

With a computer, monitor, keyboard, and a "Computer-Aided Display Control", a/k/a "mouse".

I use "new posts" in other forii, but not on LitE because I have zero interest outside of AH. I have the same m.o. as @crookedletter , keeping a window open which is frequently refreshed to see what my friends here are up to.

At a rough guess, over the past two years I've spent approximately 370,000 hours here.

You made me do the math. 42 years' worth? But, yeah, it seems like it, doesn't it?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I use "new posts" in other forii, but not on LitE because I have zero interest outside of AH.

Story Ideas and Story Feedback are OK.

 

[TheLobster]

I open the forums a few times throughout the day and clear the notifications if I have any.

If I feel like it, I then open the AH forum, look for any interesting threads that might have crept up, and hopefully not find anything of note so I can get back to writing.

 

[MillieDynamite]

AH is generally the one place I hang.

 

[Comshaw]

I just saw a post where someone mentioned "new posts." I had literally never clicked on it. I'd probably seen it, but forgot about it. How do you interact here? How often do you open forum.literotica.com?

Here's what I do:

I visit every day unless I'm on the road and have no internet access. (Can't imagine using my phone for this.) Usually I log in four or five times a day.

I immediately Show All in my Alerts and start working up from the bottom (oldest). I have a watch on 13 forums, but only a few get new threads regularly. I set watches on threads that look interesting, and write replies where I feel so moved. I explored some of the features in the menu to write this post. I see that there are lots of ways to approach forum membership.

Being retired I can set my own schedule. I wander into this forum every day. If there's a red number (which happens infrequently) on my alerts, I take a look. If there's one on the little envelope icon for messages (which happens even more infrequently than a woman giving me a compliment), I get all excited and do that one first.

Once that's done, I wander out to the main forum and see if there's a thread I want to read. If so I do so. If not, from time to time I MIGHT click over to the PB and see what's happening there. 9 times out of 10 after a perusal of one or two of the threads, I start to itch and it reminds me I need a shower, even though I just had one, and I dash out of there.

After that I wander off to a couple of other cubby holes I visit on the 'net.

Comshaw

 

[AG31]

If there's one on the little envelope icon for messages..., I get all excited and do that one first.

Me too.

 

[Comshaw]

To give a more serious reply to @AG31's question: I generally have a tab with the forums open whenever I'm at my computer. And that's many hours a day, almost every day. I check new threads that sound interesting, check replies to threads I'm following, and reply or refrain from replying as the mood takes me.

Mostly I'm here in the AH, although I check the Editor's Forum (it still bugs this editor that it's "editor" singular) and a few other places. Never Politics or any of the specialist forums. Very occasionally the General forum, but that's mostly for the funnies.

At a rough guess, over the past two years I've spent approximately 370,000 hours here.

I have never been able to do that. I seem to follow Charles Emerson Winchester's thoughts on the subject, "I do one thing at a time. I do it very well. Then I move on."

Okay, okay, it ain't that I am that good. It's that I am incapable of doing two things at a time. My dad always tried to get me to pat my head and rub my stomach in a circle at the same time and do it fast when I was a kid. Abject failure I was.

Comshaw

 

[SimonDoom]

On average, I check the Author's Hangout a few times a day, sometimes more if I'm not busy with other things or if there's a hot discussion that especially interests me. I check if anybody has said anything in response to something I said.

I rarely check out any of the other forums. Every few months or so, I give in to the urge to post something in the Politics Forum, and almost without exception I regret it or find it completely unworthwhile. I'll check out the Feedback forum once in a great while.

 

[HordHolm]

How do you interact here?

Spasmodically

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Mostly I just come here. I never really wandered around too much. I used to be in the queer section a lot, back when Etoile was modding it, for discussions, but not so much since it turned into Gay GB with all the dick threads, lesbian threads, anal threads.

 

[AG31]

Mostly I just come here. I never really wandered around too much. I used to be in the queer section a lot, back when Etoile was modding it, for discussions, but not so much since it turned into Gay GB with all the dick threads, lesbian threads, anal threads.

Sorry. I'm dense. How did the queer section differ from GB, lesbian and anal?

 

[TheRedLantern]

In my "writing browser" where I'm logged into my writing gmail/google docs account, I leave a tab open to Lit. It's usually aimed at the AH threads, sorted by latest. I read a lot of the threads but have started to skip ones on certain topics. Now that I've been here a few months, I see some of the patterns and know better when I don't have anything constructive to add.

Mostly I use the forums for the DMs, usually when I have a lot of questions and they're off-topic or of very narrow interest. I've had a few critique partners and keeping all that right here in one place is just so convenient.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Sorry. I'm dense. How did the queer section differ from GB, lesbian and anal?

It wasn't all about sex, there were serious discussions that happened there. Now not so much. It's not a bad thing, but Men In Panties Thread 32, can just get old.

 

[redgarters]

I nearly exclusively read and contribute to the AH. I've looked at some of the others but they don't interest me much. And why anyone would come to the LitE for the political forum is beyond me. That's the shit I come here to get away from.

I'll take some days/weeks where I'm active here and then sometimes not log on for days/weeks. Very much depends on what's going on in my work life and if I'm on a writing spree or not.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I do it pretty much like you, @AG31.

 

[CalBishForNow]

How do you interact with the forums?​

Too much. I first came to the forums when I was curious, to make a long story short, about what's going on with the Loving Wives category. That was three weeks ago and by now I think I spend more time commenting here than I do actually writing stories.

Somewhat more seriously, since then I've still managed to put over 12,000 words in text files intended to be published here at some point and I've got an idea or two that I like from the forums, and it's all just for fun, so the forums can't be that harmful to my writing. But if it wasn't just for fun, I'd have to put limits on my forum times somehow.

Almost all my time in the forums has been spent in the Author's Hangout. I've checked a couple other forums out but they seemed both less active and less useful. If I'm writing on my computer, I'll probably have the forums open in another tab, along with a few other potentially useful resources.