Posted by tina on July 28, 2000, at 17:31:18
In reply to Re: my 2 cents on this, posted by CarolAnn on July 28, 2000, at 13:20:37
I'm not a newbie OR and oldster. Kinda in the middle somewhere I guess. Been around a few months and I have to say that I have posted once or twice and not gotten any answer at all but I still keep coming back. Sometimes you don't get ananswer because people simply can't see your post in amongst the thousands or they have no answers for you. It's a hard call. These are some of the best people I have ever met and a lot of them have become personal friends. Some really know their stuff and others, like me, are just here to say I understand and I support you because I've come through it and there is a light at the end of the tunnel. i know we all try our best to make new people welcome and keep in touch with our old friends but I hope everyone can find this board to be a helpful, supportive, understanding place. All I can say is if you don't get an answer on your first try, try again until someone notices. That's what I do and someone usually comes to my rescue. Please don't feel that your cries are going unheard. They aren't. Keep talking and we'll listen, always.
This is directed at anyone who feels slighted by the old timers. They aren't like that, any of them, take my word on it. They are the most compassionate bunch of wonderful people I know and I would still be in a black pit of hell without them.> I've been here since last October, and I've seen a lot of people come and go, and from what I've seen, if the oldies were ignoring the newbies, most of the current posters probably wouldn't be here.
> It's like Greg and Shar say, sometimes you just don't know how to reply to a specific post, whether it's a new person or not.
> Also, "ignoring" new people can be totally unintentional. Sometimes, timewise, it's all I can do just to keep up with the babblers I've known a while. But, when I do have extra time, and I see a new poster who has had no replies at all, I do read their post and try to find some response if I can't actually answer their questions. I really don't think that there are a whole lot of people who's posts have been totally ignored, I would guess, at the most, maybe one in each archive?
> Well, I think I've gone over 2 cents!^) CarolAnn
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