Invisibility

Yes, it happens to me quite often on here. Usually someone will come along who hasn't bothered to read the whole of the thread and adds their two penn'orth which is virtually what I suggested several posts ago.

Whether others agree with that poster or not, it's still irritating!

Is there anybody there?

Yes, [sigh] but I am quite used to it. DH does it to me all the time - my suggestions always go over the top of his head until Joe Public down the road suggests the same thing.

And apologies if I have done it to others - Ana I know I am guilty - it may be that sometimes some threads are tltr all through and great minds think alike.

I am wondering why this is under the 'Charities' heading
Is it because we should all be more charitable to each other, as someone tried to suggest recently?

Oh jalima
Fat Finger Syndrome!!! Should have been CHAT!!

This happens to me a lot too MawBroon . Sometimes I hope someone might disagree with me just to get a reaction!

I must admit to not always reading really long threads from beginning to end and I wouldn't be offended if anyone said "I said that three pages ago"

Our WI recently had a quiz night and although I am not the brightest of buttons academically I am pretty good at (often) useless facts. In every walk of life you get the "bossy boots" the one who has to "hold the pen" or "fill the answers in" etc. and on this occasion "she" insisted that her answers were the final answers. I was beyond angry when my answers were ignored but admit to having a sly grin when the quiz master read the correct answers out at the end"

Gloat? Moi?

DD does this all the time to me and I used to just ignore it, now I point out that I already suggested such and such and if she listened she would hear.

I blame the platform GN uses. If you go an any other forum like this I suspect you will find a like button. Then we wouldn't have to say I agree with x.y or z , we can simply like their post - or how about lets get radical and have a Like and an Agree button !!!

I hate the idea of a like button. What if you never got any 'likes'? And I do think it makes some people play to the audience so you're never sure who means what...

There again, I do get quite a glow when someone says they agree with me - especially when the post was quite a bit back in a thread. Ah ha! Someone actually took the time to read and digest what I wrote

MawBroon yes I can get slightly miffed by it. I've probably done it myself.
Apologies to anyone if I've ever made you feel slighted.

Yes, agree, that's always gratifying.

(in reply to Anya's post)

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

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

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

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!

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!

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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'.