If YOU were responsible for SL's forums . . .

It doesn't shun. Every new poster gets a nice star, and a friendly greeting.



This I understand. If the current flavour of conversation doesn't interest me, I find I can't jump in and contribute. But that isn't anybody's fault but my own. Waiting an hour and checking back usually takes care of that. Occasionally I'll post something pointless and worthless, and people have the audacity to not quote me in a reply with something validating my presence! Can you believe that?



It's about as friendly and inclusive as as a group of people ranging from casual acquantences to very close friends can get.



That is just about as wrong as you can get. When people bring the outside drama into the thread (between posters), they get wrist slapped right quick.



I cannot be in in-world as frequently as I can check a forum.

Nor is the in-world chat system close enough to a web forum in functionality and scope to be a suitable replacement.



Coffee is paramount!

This seems to sum it up nicely.

Hmm.. you're looking for pix again....?

Yes, and Maureen does such a marvelous job of it. She is just too good...




Ooooh, me too. Sometimes I post somethink that I feel is extremely witty and it doesn't get recognized, but oh well, such as life is




Absolutely!!!!




OMG Yes

Obvious aignore thread is imporatnt to many. But by its limitd readers and contributors its a klick. There's no need to defend it I guess but its not everybody's taste. We all get what we need form sl otherwise we wouldnt come back all teh time. If teh ignore thread is what you want then fine. As I said VERY CAREFULLY I dont want to annoy or offend people when discussing it BUT its not sacrosanct territory and I think a thread (just had a grab bag look at it) that is employed to discuss very many non-sl things is really breaking all terms of what many posters IN the ignore thread clamour about when they read peopel who post in the Resident Answers - they'll type "Off Topic" and "This thread should be closed down - its off topic" or "This reapeats old threads" etc etc.

I suppose people at work places around teh world can escape into the forum and dive on to teh ignore thread for a break. It's not my business to say dont do that. I work for myself and am totally self-employed/free lance but I hire people and pay them to work - is teh ignore thread a way to ignore work or boredom in situations?

Just read this and truly realize that its a chance people actually think of me what they think of me in teh forum when I type. Ah well. Get back to work! I have gone home for teh Fri. afternoon coz I am working from 5 am to 10 pm on sat'day. - I REALLY am.

Well, OK... But don't be attacking coffee!

I dont attack coffee. In my working situation I allow full-time coffee for anyone in my "orbit". I also allow ALL mothers to bring their under school age children to where I am working at that moment. I have paid full benfits to same-sex partnerships for as longas I remember. Funny enough, in my real work, people actually think I am great to work for.

Our forum expectation are why we come to the forum also. This is "my" hour or so of "my" day. Its convenient. I can chat a few minutes and open myself up more than even to my friends who expect a "working Jig" 24/7. Which of us can truly be ourselves in real? Our public personas and different from our sl ones to soem degree.

Interesting. When I see a nice hot cup of coffee in front of me, I attack it. A lot.

Now that I think about it, I don't remember him sharing any though.

Sadly even at my age, my doc has insisted that I must restrict my coffee to 4 cups a day. I am San Pellagrino drinker now. No chocolate also. Ever.

4 cups a day is enough.

No, there is a sad lack of Marcel pics.

He wasn't rating - just collecting them

Yeah, but if he is collecting, he should share some of himself with us.

Funny pic.
In my real life my doc is one of those healthy types. Kinda strikes a breath of cold air when he comes into the examining room. Yes, a HE. I like him anyway. But he is one of those "Jig, I just read this in teh Michelin Guide to Good Health" types and handles me as if I have had a lifestyle like a Uranium cooling pond. So its clean living for me. I cant even have a bacon butty. Or a Chip-sarny. And I am banned from anything with "recreational" as a desciptor except a piece fo sports equipment.

PMs would be on by default.

There would be a stream of consciousness forum with just one page so that people can banter but the results need not be saved. Once a thread slipped off the lone page it would be gone for good. It would be the place to go to to see if other people can't log in.

The software would work, whatever it would be.

General.

Isnt that called marriage?

That's called a shoutbox. Though the one I made on a BBS I wrote back around 1983 I called the graffiti wall.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/honeybearlilliehook/2955839516/in/set-72157608182512396/

I haven't uploaded it yet, but I snapped one of Marcel last weekend, too.

I'll have to make a point of snapping pics of Marcel when he's not looking

I don't get here all that much, so I'm not sure what I'd change. I can usually find the answers I'm looking for by using search, so probably nothing, except add more moderators.

A Viking - in Alaska - sounds kinda cute. And lost.
What kinda answers are you looking for, Viking?

I mean just a forum with many threads, though - with just one forum page listing the threads - not just a chatbox. Forum posters might start strategising to gain territory, which might be amusing.