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The fear of starting new threads has unknown origins, but is believed similar to the fear of raising a hand in class. The only known cure is acclimatization therapy (ie: doing it while reminding yourself that you're among friends, nothing bad will happen, etc.).
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That's something I haven't thought of -- people starting a new thread. I wonder how many of us have actually started a new one, and not simply replied to one already in existence? Hmmmm, a new type of challenge?
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I'm from the "old school", and always raised my hand for permission to speak. I didn't even know that it was "allowed" to start a new thread until Doug suggested that I start one about some question that I had mentioned in response to another thread.
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Allowed, encouraged...kind of the whole point of this thing, actually
(of course, always check to make sure there isn't already an ongoing discussion on the same topic in another thread)
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Thread hijacking is a term I just found for an old problem: radical departure from the topic of a thread. I guess a lot of folks view a thread as a discussion between them and one or two others, like a little chat room. But it just ain't so.
A lot of users join because they find a thread...07-05-2003, 11:02 AM -
Last Saturday I posted:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/sho...6043#post76043
... and not ONE person responded, even to say something rude.
Now, I figure I must have violated the Unwritten Law or maybe even a Written Law that lurks here...11-18-2004, 05:48 PM -
I'm new here and am a bit confused about certain things.
In many postings you Doug Nelson stands as the author, but
when i look i can see that in fact other people started the thread.
So why do you stand as the author?
Also in some cases it says there are 0 replies, but when...09-05-2001, 05:46 AM -
I know I'm not the only one who has noticed that every now and then someone will post a thread that will go totally unnoticed. I don't know exactly why this happens but I thought I would bring it to everyones attention. If you post a thread and notice no one answers it or no on responds to one of...12-17-2001, 09:31 PM
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The vast majority of forum users rely on the "new posts" page to determine what they'll read. For various reasons, this means perfectly useful and interesting threads can sometimes die an early death. Placing a post in these threads will "bump" them, and make them appear in the "new...05-05-2002, 11:39 PM
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