I understand that you want to be acknowledged @Sophia1 and as far as the generally accepted idea that wanting attention is a bad thing - you are not after attention in that way either
Regardless though - is wanting attention a bad thing - if I go into a shop to purchase something I want attention, if I was to go to the ED with something wrong - say I had a fall - I would want attention
So yes - having been accused of seeking attention myself it was so totally out of place it was meaningless to me and went right over my head at the time and it was before I acquired a lot of this wonderful wisdom that is such a good idea - back then I was in a bad place and could have been called arrogant - which I think I was - but that was in a different time and all of that is past
Today though - and these threads - personally I only respond where I feel I can be useful and possibly the popular threads move so fast that what I might have had an answer or idea about an hour ago is so far back on the thread it's no longer relevant - I let it go - or if I do respond I feel the need to quote the post I am responding too
But you have raised a couple of questions in my mind - what makes a thread popular? and does it matter? These are rhetorical questions so no need to reply to them but think about it - some threads carry a lot of chatter which is important to the people in the conversation - and with a couple I do jump in wherever the convo is going - others - no - I don't.
Sometimes I will be following a thread because I am interested but refrained from joining in because it doesn't fit me - for whatever reason
But you are concerned about being accepted - as far as I am concerned you are - I like what you write and you are openly appreciative of my writing so it's really easy to "accept" you - and what you are writing about
This is a really safe place to write and express ourselves and our thoughts - the moderators are always there for help and I know from what I have read that the "popular" threads have been spoken about before
And I guess they are fast-moving because the people who read and write know each other well and are on-line more often than I am - which is okay
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