topic Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters? in Q Talk

Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters?

Plaid Pants2 — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:22:48 GMT

I know that everyone was new once, but when someone has a registration date that is 5+ years old, and only a couple of posts, it strikes me as being fishy.

I couldn't help but to notice that in the past few weeks, there have been more "new" posters whose registration date is years old, yet they only have a few posts.

Maybe it's innocent, or maybe not.

Either way, it strikes me as interesting.

Re: Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters?

blackhole99 — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:29:15 GMT

No doubt these posters are just voyeurs and really don't care to come out of the shadows very often.

Re: Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters?

Citrine1 — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:32:12 GMT

Yes, I noticed a bunch of "new" posters. Didn't notice the registration dates, but I've seen a lot of new nics with very few posts. Sometimes you see a bunch -- one right after the other -- in a thread. That always strikes me as odd.

Re: Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters?

Kachina624 — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:33:28 GMT

I love new posters who, on their first or second post, advise us on how this whole operation should be changed

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wildcat fan — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:43:02 GMT

I've noticed that a few of those low post count members who registered some time ago sound very similar to someone who recently said he's (she's?) not posting here anymore. One who just started posting recently starts the same types of threads too. What a coincidence! Lose one poster and pick up several more just like him/her.

I wonder if the moderators bother to check IP addresses to look for any patterns. They seem pretty busy, so maybe not.

Re: Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters?

StraytoStay — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:48:53 GMT

I noticed it in the Logo threads about a week ago. Maybe they don't want the Nogo watch dog to know what they really think of some of the styles so they can continue to post in the Nogo forum without consequences.

Re: Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters?

ValuSkr — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:59:23 GMT

@blackhole99 wrote:
No doubt these posters are just voyeurs and really don't care to come out of the shadows very often.

I don't think "voyeur" is the right word but can't think of what it should be. Maybe they're lurkers.

Re: Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters?

jackthebear — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:54:54 GMT

we were all new posters at some point

no worries

Re: Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters?

StraytoStay — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 23:00:41 GMT

@jackthebear wrote:
we were all new posters at some point

no worries

It's what some are posting on that's suspicious. Some are new, some you can tell have knowledge of what not to say or not reveal their known identity.

Re: Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters?

Perkup — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 23:07:24 GMT

I guess some of you are far more invested in this Board than I am. I enjoy chatting back and forth - even arguing sometimes. But I never thought to check on each poster to see how long they have been here. I suppose I just take most things at face value and don't care to be too inquisitive. I don't even know how long I have been posting. I do know that regardless of who posts I will continue to accept whatever or whoever it is and won't be checking into their tenure here.

Re: Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters?

alliswell — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 23:13:36 GMT

@Perkup wrote:
I guess some of you are far more invested in this Board than I am. I enjoy chatting back and forth - even arguing sometimes. But I never thought to check on each poster to see how long they have been here. I suppose I just take most things at face value and don't care to be too inquisitive. I don't even know how long I have been posting. I do know that regardless of who posts I will continue to accept whatever or whoever it is and won't be checking into their tenure here.

Same here

Re: Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters?

StraytoStay — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 23:16:30 GMT

@Perkup wrote:
I guess some of you are far more invested in this Board than I am. I enjoy chatting back and forth - even arguing sometimes. But I never thought to check on each poster to see how long they have been here. I suppose I just take most things at face value and don't care to be too inquisitive. I don't even know how long I have been posting. I do know that regardless of who posts I will continue to accept whatever or whoever it is and won't be checking into their tenure here.

I agree, but those that change their identity to spout off must have their reasons. Maybe they made friendships and don't want trouble. To me, I don't hold grudges but if someone known to pick people's posts apart and they do it to me, well that person's a pain in the arse.

Re: Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters?

kjae — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 23:20:30 GMT

Really, guys?

Re: Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters?

wildcat fan — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 23:20:46 GMT

@alliswell wrote:
@Perkup wrote:
I guess some of you are far more invested in this Board than I am. I enjoy chatting back and forth - even arguing sometimes. But I never thought to check on each poster to see how long they have been here. I suppose I just take most things at face value and don't care to be too inquisitive. I don't even know how long I have been posting. I do know that regardless of who posts I will continue to accept whatever or whoever it is and won't be checking into their tenure here.

Same here

@alliswell @Perkup All you have to do is glance to the left of the post under the username to see an approximate registration date. It's not like it takes a lot of effort to look up one's tenure here.

Re: Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters?

MalteseMomma — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 23:44:12 GMT

Sometimes for some reason the date I (and others) began has been changed a few times during board maintenence by QVC itself.

If I only started in 2010,like it says noone here would have known my Barkley.He died that year and I got my Maltie in 2011. We Pet people had many great late nites together here in those early days, even though we did not have a "space of our own" we bonded for life!

Actually ,I have been here almost since my DH died in 92

I have been here since it all began (don't remember the year) and there were only a few of us. I was formally CorgieMom and before that i had some kind of "shopper" name like maybe "shopsalot" or something like that.I do not remember.

I personally only changed my own name 1 time ,from Corgimom to MalteseMomma when my Corgi went to RB. I do not know what happened to the name I had in the very early days.Q deleted it during reconstruction of these boards Actually, not many people came here at first..........

QVC historian here........lol

Edited to add I just noticed my date.....lol .it seems Q used my birthdate as the day I signed in here......lol .......... anyone else the same ?

Re: Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters?

MalteseMomma — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 23:46:59 GMT

@Perkup wrote:
I guess some of you are far more invested in this Board than I am. I enjoy chatting back and forth - even arguing sometimes. But I never thought to check on each poster to see how long they have been here. I suppose I just take most things at face value and don't care to be too inquisitive. I don't even know how long I have been posting. I do know that regardless of who posts I will continue to accept whatever or whoever it is and won't be checking into their tenure here.

@Perkup

I agree!

funny in all my years here I hardly ever,ever look at a name or when they signed up !

I just read the posts

Re: Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters?

faeriemoon — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:25:50 GMT

I look at the post count if I don't recognize a nic. There are a few "new" argumentative members posting today. It's funny that they don't seem new-- they know too much.

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mac116 — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:36:25 GMT

I don't pay any attention to poster's names, nicknames, or numbers of posts. I will notice a unique picture, like the swimming shark. I could not tell you that poster's name however.

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september — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 01:08:03 GMT

@jackthebear wrote:
we were all new posters at some point

no worries

Yes we were. I read for a few months before I started posting and then got attacked by someone who looked up my brief history and told me to "go back to the cosmetics board".

My few previous posts had been made in beauty.

Welcome to all new posters, no matter when you signed up! We don't all eat our young.

Re: Anybody Notice a Sudden Influx of "New" Posters?

SunValley — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 01:08:15 GMT

I read these boards for five years before posting. That was plenty of experience to understand what I was getting myself into, epecially on the old forum where nasty spats and horrible posts about hosts were left unchecked. It was a free-for-all brawl at times.

As for the topics chosen for first posts, sometimes you need to be fired up about something to give one the boost needed to make post #1. We need participation on the boards, so if the first post is a complaint, so be it. If a post seems suspect or the complaint is off the wall, I just pass it by, as things tend to sort themselves out, and the mods are part of that.