Invisibility

Oh kitty, it's ok, you know the truth .

Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to get that off my chest, Maw.

kitty!

This has happened to me, on here, twice recently when I've written a brilliant post had lots of people say. 'i agree with kitty' and then someone has come along and said the very same thing! It takes me all my time to sit on my hands and not post a really grumpy reply! It happened on two threads where people were really upset so it wouldn't have been appropriate to be rude (and I have been caught out like that before!)

And another thing!

DH is redoing his study (I know, bored now!) and I suggested a cork wall (dead on trend!) next thing I know, he's saying to interior design guru daughter, 'ive been thinking of,,,,,,, ' - she now thinks dh is dead trendy where, in actual fact, I am.

Or in this case pick the grandkids up from school.

No, it's to indicate that you've important things to do (like cook a roast dinner) and have to leave the forum for the time being.

Dirty minded lot that you are!

Or could be quite rude
As in giving someone the bird!

If i were on the politics threads, it would probably denote the fact that my goose had been cooked! ?

Yes shysal you put that very well, about being less eloquent I mean.
A few posters do use just a smiley, I think I will start doing that. But what is the for?

May I join the club too? Though I'm in it anyway I suppose. I make a comment, several threads later someone else makes the same point, and that one elicits all the agreements, grins, smiles etc. Oh well, I'm not alone ☹️

I agree that an 'agree' button would be useful . If my comments would echo those of a previous poster I don't always bother as mine would be less eloquent! I am glad I am not alone in all the above feelings. Watch the thread stop right here!

And me! I've sounded the death knell on many a thread! Couldn't we just use the 'smile' emoticon to indicate 'like'? Hmm, that wouldn't necessarily be a suitable response on some threads though.

Yes, me too, I'm afraid. You just have to grit your teeth and get on with it. We have a like button on our fishing forum and it will only accept so many named likes and then 'and thirty seven other people like this post'.

Me too sunseeker & NotTooOld maybe we should start a group for very short threads.
grannyqueenie that's exactly what happens to me sometimes, if I am short of time and come back to a thread it's often changed out of all recognition.

Yup, me too. I refuse to get a complex about it, sort of how it is generally, sometimes being invisible is a good thing.

Yes, I agree, I think we all suffer from this.

By the time I work my way through past posts and work out who said what, who agreed or not with who, composed a well thought out and, not wanting to upset any visiting pedants, a grammatically correct response, I find that the discussion has all moved on. So what I've said makes little sense to me never mind anyone else, and I've probably ignored a few folk along the way, if you were one of them I apologise it wasn't intentional!

Yup!
But only on GN, never in my Book Group as we do listen to each other, even when the discussion gets heated.

Reading through a whole thread of 10+pages is not always possible and the very long ones, impossible, unless you stick with it throughout.

Oh yes, definitely - I always read threads through before I post and if someone has already said what I was going to say, I say "I agree with so-and-so" (I wish the posts were numbered on GN)

In real life it is always happening to me, too. It's so annoying when you comment on something and about 10 minutes later someone with a louder voice comes up with the same comment and gets all the credit/laughs. Of course, if your comment is wrong and goes unnoticed, then you are saved some embarrassment!

Jalima, my dh is the same. Won't often take any notice of anything I suggest, but let anyone else - and I do mean anyone - suggest it, and he'll often think it's a great idea.

To be fair, I don't think he even realises he does it - I've given up pointing it out now since I hate arguments - but it can be bloody annoying at times..

He would deny it to the death, but although he knows in his head that I'm very often right about so many things, somewhere deep down his primeval macho bit thinks I can't possibly know what I'm talking about.

Maybe it's a subconscious reaction to the fact that I can invariably answer more questions on University Challenge than he can!

Sunseeker - I also seem to have that super power! Perhaps it's catching.

It's a bit worrying, though, when someone you would normally violently disagree with agrees with your post!
iyswim

I sometimes think my super power is stopping a thread dead in its tracks as often the thread seems to die once I post!

(in reply to Anya's post)