Absentee Threadstarters

[belodion]

All members are welcome to create threads in any forum of their choosing, and indeed are encouraged to do so. It’s a large part of what Android Central is about.

But please, if you have started a topic of conversation, go to the trouble of at least acknowledging replies - voting a Like will do - if not actually engaging with and responding to members who have replied in the thread that YOU started. If nothing else, it’s a simple courtesy to respond to replies, and more than that, leads to much more satisfying and interesting exchanges.

There are various threads throughout the forums which have elicited responses from members, but from which the OP is noticeably absent. Reading them leaves you with the sense that the OP has not the slightest interest in members' replies. Sometimes those members exchange ideas with one another instead, for want of any participation by the OP, and the thread takes off by itself. But it’s much more in the spirit of the forums if the starter of a thread retains a presence in it.

 

[Rukbat]

Re: Absentee Threadstarters (draft)

And it's easy enough to subscribe to a thread you start and get daily emails if any posts are added. No email - nothing to check.

 

[anon(10181084)]

Oh FINALLY someone addressed this. It has become such a mass problem on this forum as of lately that I sometimes don't even open Tapatalk for days or occasionally even weeks on end...

 

[Nquateman]

All members are welcome to create threads in any forum of their choosing, and indeed are encouraged to do so. It’s a large part of what Android Central is about.

But please, if you have started a topic of conversation, go to the trouble of at least acknowledging replies - voting a Like will do - if not actually engaging with and responding to members who have replied in the thread that YOU started. If nothing else, it’s a simple courtesy to respond to replies, and more than that, leads to much more satisfying and interesting exchanges.

There are various threads throughout the forums which have elicited responses from members, but from which the OP is noticeably absent. Reading them leaves you with the sense that the OP has not the slightest interest in members' replies. Sometimes those members exchange ideas with one another instead, for want of any participation by the OP, and the thread takes off by itself. But it’s much more in the spirit of the forums if the starter of a thread retains a presence in it.

I'm glad you mentioned this. I've been hesitant in the past to reply unless I had something material to add because I figured that saying "OK" or "thanks" didn't add anything to the discussion except to make a thread longer to read through. But I take your point.