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Thread: How much do I need to engage in a thread I start?
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
# 64
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This is not relating to a specific thread, but I want to question how much someone who starts a thread should continue to engage with it.
I have started threads, and the discussion has gone well, addressed the questions I have raised, but then continues. So I leave no longer engage, happy for the thread to die.
I think that starting a thread and not responding at all is not acceptable (the purpose is engaging, not just asking). But to what extent should the starter continue to engage? Just for general guidance and consideration, not because I or anyone else has broken any principles.
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
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No one is going to put a gun to your head and force you to read, let alone post on, a thread that is of little interest to you. Threads sometimes head off in unexpected directions, and the OPer has no real authority to dictate the direction - that's been said repeatedly. I would say that there's a corresponding side to that, if the thread goes in a direction that doesn't interest the OPer then there's no need to keep posting (personally if that happens I look back in now and then to see if it's gone back to something I find interesting).
The same happens if you post on a thread, even if you didn't start it. You engage for a while on something that interests you, and then the thread moves on.
And, sometimes life just rears it's ugly head and you don't have time to read anything.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
# 64
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I suppose it is more expectation than demand - what others and the hosts especially expect of someone. There is an expectation that having started a discussion, some engagement is appropriate.
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RooK
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No expectations, necessarily. Though it does seem to be common sense to mostly start threads with topics you're personally interested in. But whatever.
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