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[Moonchilde]

Just a comment, nothing more.

There seems to have been a high tide of posters in the past 5 days or so, making their very first post about an issue that is either guaranteed to go south, or some rather oddly bizarre pot-stirring, many of those to do with hosts. So many people who felt so strongly about their "issue" that they created a profile just to post about it. Yet they all seem to be very familiar with QVC in general.

And will of course find that innocents will bite and comment. But to most of us, it's being so poorly done that it stands out in neon lighting.

[Spurt]

Oh no, here we go again with the "first time poster thread"....

Let the Moderators do their job.....if a post is inappropriate, report it and move on....

[Citrine1]

You're right, moonchilde.  I agree.

[NC Bandwagon]

Hello, moonchilde.

No offense for anything....but if a person with a low post count or only one post count is treated poorly, accused of being up to something or trying to cause trouble, then they won't likely want to return to make more posts.

It's kind of like going through a high-school hazing or getting mean/rude service from a store. After you go through something like that, you won't like want to come back.

I've posted with a few people who've only had one post or a very low post count. Usually they respond when they're responded to polietly, and then their post count grows.

[Moonchilde]

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@NC Bandwagon wrote:

Hello, moonchilde.

No offense for anything....but if a person with a low post count or only one post count is treated poorly, accused of being up to something or trying to cause trouble, then they won't likely want to return to make more posts.

It's kind of like going through a high-school hazing or getting mean/rude service from a store. After you go through something like that, you won't like want to come back.

I've posted with a few people who've only had one post or a very low post count. Usually they respond when they're responded to polietly, and then their post count grows.

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I think we've all seen people with low post counts or making a first post that it wouldn't occur to question - I know I have. I certainly don't go around looking for them.

But when a "first poster", theoretically brand new to the forums, makes a first post, or a second, which is clearly angry in an inappropriate way towards a host, a vendor, a QVC policy, etc., or their very first post is about a political hot button issue or a guaranteed-to-be-divisive issue and the post is off-the-wall hyperbolic and rude - and there are half a dozen new names within a 2-3 day period all doing the same thing in the same way - I don't apologize for my assumptions under those circumstances.

[NC Bandwagon]

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@Moonchilde wrote:

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@NC Bandwagon wrote:

Hello, moonchilde.

No offense for anything....but if a person with a low post count or only one post count is treated poorly, accused of being up to something or trying to cause trouble, then they won't likely want to return to make more posts.

It's kind of like going through a high-school hazing or getting mean/rude service from a store. After you go through something like that, you won't like want to come back.

I've posted with a few people who've only had one post or a very low post count. Usually they respond when they're responded to polietly, and then their post count grows.

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I think we've all seen people with low post counts or making a first post that it wouldn't occur to question - I know I have. I certainly don't go around looking for them.

But when a "first poster", theoretically brand new to the forums, makes a first post, or a second, which is clearly angry in an inappropriate way towards a host, a vendor, a QVC policy, etc., or their very first post is about a political hot button issue or a guaranteed-to-be-divisive issue and the post is off-the-wall hyperbolic and rude - and there are half a dozen new names within a 2-3 day period all doing the same thing in the same way - I don't apologize for my assumptions under those circumstances.

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I see. I suppose that could make sense as well.

Perhaps the best way to go about it then would be to simply ignore them. Easier said than done, I know. But it might be the best way to go about things. The moderators have been do a really good job as of late, so I think they, too, might be able to sense if problems start.

Off topic, does anyone know how to make the quote train look less faded? I know that if enough people quote each other, then the previous quotes are still there, but they looked faded. Anyway to un-fade them at all?

[Moonchilde]

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@NC Bandwagon wrote:

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@Moonchilde wrote:

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@NC Bandwagon wrote:

Hello, moonchilde.

No offense for anything....but if a person with a low post count or only one post count is treated poorly, accused of being up to something or trying to cause trouble, then they won't likely want to return to make more posts.

It's kind of like going through a high-school hazing or getting mean/rude service from a store. After you go through something like that, you won't like want to come back.

I've posted with a few people who've only had one post or a very low post count. Usually they respond when they're responded to polietly, and then their post count grows.

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I think we've all seen people with low post counts or making a first post that it wouldn't occur to question - I know I have. I certainly don't go around looking for them.

But when a "first poster", theoretically brand new to the forums, makes a first post, or a second, which is clearly angry in an inappropriate way towards a host, a vendor, a QVC policy, etc., or their very first post is about a political hot button issue or a guaranteed-to-be-divisive issue and the post is off-the-wall hyperbolic and rude - and there are half a dozen new names within a 2-3 day period all doing the same thing in the same way - I don't apologize for my assumptions under those circumstances.

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I see. I suppose that could make sense as well.

Perhaps the best way to go about it then would be to simply ignore them. Easier said than done, I know. But it might be the best way to go about things. The moderators have been do a really good job as of late, so I think they, too, might be able to sense if problems start.

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Well...we *could* ignore any post we see that we don't appreciate or agree with.  All of us. But we don't. Most of us.

We can change the channel. We can watch something else. We can "get a life", etc. but what most of us choose to do is participate and in the process, express ourselves as we please.  That not everyone is going to appreciate our POV all the time is a given. That multiple views will be presented is also a given ;-) But most of us just express and carry on, which is what the forum was provided for.

[Moonchilde]

Uh.... @Beth-QVC, thank you for removing the off-topic post, but you also deleted two posts afterwards that were 100% on topic. Was that a boo-boo or is this topic a no-no? There wasn't anything in those posts that isn't in my OP, and my OP still stands.