the long slow death of page 2

[intriguess]

Occasionally I look back to other pages and see things that haven't been posted on or are listed as closed with 2 responses. Anyone else feel the frustration of subscribing to something hot and seeing it languish?

I try to keep up with my own threads, but occasionally something will slip past me (I found it on page 5)

Is it a weekend thing? I don't tend to get online on Sunday so probably never noticed, but I've been around a while and it seems that the shift of a thread to page 2 can be a death sentence. Is it just people who don't know how to use their control panel to see all subscribed threads? or something else at work here?

I'm curious if anyone else feels this way

 

[Belvino]

The stories cycle through the first page really fast. Just because they are on page two does not mean that they will die, however if you have chosen your partners poorly and they do not respond then you will likely lose the thread. In any case just post on the seeking thread to get new partners.

All my threads are not on the first page and that probably has to do with my partners and myself having a notoriously busy life in RL and we are just slow with responses. It takes a while to make a good post. However, I am never afraid of the threads not being on the first page. They eventually go back once someone makes a response but the same old threads do not always stay on the first page unless the authors are going back and forth all day.

 

[Scuttle Buttin']

The stories cycle through the first page really fast. Just because they are on page two does not mean that they will die, however if you have chosen your partners poorly and they do not respond then you will likely lose the thread. In any case just post on the seeking thread to get new partners.

All my threads are not on the first page and that probably has to do with my partners and myself having a notoriously busy life in RL and we are just slow with responses. It takes a while to make a good post. However, I am never afraid of the threads not being on the first page. They eventually go back once someone makes a response but the same old threads do not always stay on the first page unless the authors are going back and forth all day.

Pretty much this.

My threads are almost never on the first page, compared to the others that often are. I just don't post fast enough for any of that.

 

[intriguess]

I think it might be a reflection on the changes in me since I joined, back when I joined I was in college had a lot of breaks between classes and could post multiple times per day and wrote with a lot of other college goers. Now that I'm in my 30's I write with an older crowd, and I'll probably settle more once my fall job kicks in.

 

[Guillotine]

I remember back in the day 75% of the threads weren't even closed. Granted, it was a little more of a gamble who you'd get in your thread, but if you found a cool idea that you liked - and you were quick - you could just jump in.

 

[Veroe]

I think it might be a reflection on the changes in me since I joined, back when I joined I was in college had a lot of breaks between classes and could post multiple times per day and wrote with a lot of other college goers. Now that I'm in my 30's I write with an older crowd, and I'll probably settle more once my fall job kicks in.

I couldn't do that I work in a place that doesn't allow cell phones on the production floor and I never have time to sneak it out to check Lit much less hammer out a quick response. Also I write in a style where I like to think things over making me regrettably slow...too slow to ever keep my threads on the first page.

That isn't the point though. The second page isn't a death sentence...I've had threads go all the way back to like page 15 that are still going. As long as you and your cowriter work well together and feel you can tell a good and hot story as RL allows both of you to...It doesn't matter how far back the thread sinks.

 

[intriguess]

Ah Veroe, a name I recognize. Yeah quality is always a good thing and I do miss some of the people I got to RP with on basically a weekly basis. I always felt chipper seeing they had replied. They didn't even have a pm system back way back when, which is why things were much more first cum first served, but there were a few that if the thread was about a certain topic they would leap on it.

 

[Veroe]

Ah Veroe, a name I recognize. Yeah quality is always a good thing and I do miss some of the people I got to RP with on basically a weekly basis. I always felt chipper seeing they had replied. They didn't even have a pm system back way back when, which is why things were much more first cum first served, but there were a few that if the thread was about a certain topic they would leap on it.

That was a bit before when I came to Lit. When I joined they already had the PM system going, and in fact I couldn't imagine how it would have worked without it really.

Anyway nostalgia is good and all over drinks and friendly conversation, but in life you gotta go forward not backwards Intriguess. You said you'll be getting a new job soon (Congrats and good luck with that btw) so naturally the pace you remember being able to post at you won't be able to sustain as your new situation in RL will demand more time and energy from you.