May 2012 Non-Posters

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This is the list of newbies have joined but not posted:

hempo1 08/5/12 09:05
madhatter 20/5/12 23:26
David Brown 20/5/12 07:29
Prime101 19/5/12 12:09
cotton 18/5/12 02:59
Poppy 17/5/12 14:00
foryourlaw 21/5/12 07:24
hollyjoyful171 14/5/12 10:45
HACKS 13/5/12 11:45
aish2099@gmail.com 08/5/12 16:10
torchic 08/5/12 08:29
Tree 05/5/12 18:46
orungutanxxxcute 04/5/12 11:39
ryan1975 05/5/12 17:31
LouiseEden 20/5/12 12:19
Husskey 01/5/12 14:09
Beauty 01/5/12 14:09
Henny 17/5/12 13:53
michealpiper 12/5/12 04:29
nyzel 14/5/12 08:13
Ginger Roo 13/5/12 19:04
Abi.

Still trialling other writers, but will eventually go back to reading a bit of Blyton! Just too many books...

Occasionally will pop in! xx
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It's so friendly, just come in and say hello
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You'd make a good Findouter Abi. :D
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What happens to non posters? Do they sit on the naughty stair?
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Barney and the boys go round to their houses and bite their ankles. :lol: :lol:
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     And what of it if a number of people have joined the forum, but haven't posted (yet, or at all)? They are doing no-one any harm.
     Hunting for non-posters and trying to make a public spectacle of them is not a direction I'd like to see things going on this forum. I have been on groups before where non-posters got a bit of trouble, pressured to contribute, even kicked out on occasions, and the atmosphere in such groups was never nice, and very often few people ended up posting at all. If this list had been compiled at one time several years ago I would have been caught up in the net.
     It's a fact: on any group, forum, mailing list, or any other on-line community, however organized, about 80 percent of members never post at all, 18 percent just once or a few times, and about 2 percent regularly. It's just a fact of life, and must be accepted. (Statistics are not from any source, but my estimate from observing a number of different forums.)
     I hope this has been raised only as an idle topic to discuss, and without serious intent.

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I agree, I joined this forum for one thing only to find out about the actors in the 70's TV series FF and never intended to post anything and then silently leave.
A week later I've posted 100 odd posts, it's insanely addictive, the people here have incredible detailed knowledge and insight about Blyton. Despite the most obscure question I ask somebody here as a detailed answer. Unlike other forums there is no point scoring, one upmanship, petty insults or squabbles people are genuinely friendly and I love it. My girlfriend wants to know who I'm constantly texting on my phone, I can't really explain I'm reliving parts of my childhood. Anyway I've rambled on and I can smell something burning in the oven again.
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lwindrush wrote:A week later I've posted 100 odd posts, it's insanely addictive, the people here have incredible detailed knowledge and insight about Blyton.
     Errr... yes, I plead guilty. It's terribly embarrassing, isn't it, and I really do need to get a life! None of my friends or family know of my secret interest in Enid Blyton, and they think I grew out of her in the late 1960s, when I was about 16.
lwindrush wrote:Unlike other forums there is no point scoring, one upmanship, petty insults or squabbles
     Well... there might be just a *smidgen* occasionally - but it's done with a grin (I think).
     I can tell you that I'd be out of here in a hurry if people were nasty (even if with good reason), and I began to feel I had to watch my words lest I be victimized. I don't like spending my time in the company of people like that. Even if someone *has* done something wrong, insensitive, etc., there's absolutely no need for anyone to be nasty to them. Politeness always works better, even if they *do* have to be corrected.
lwindrush wrote:My girlfriend wants to know who I'm constantly texting on my phone, I can't really explain I'm reliving parts of my childhood.
     I know what you mean. Since I don't currently have Internet access at home, I have to use various other computers - public ones, and my mother's when I visit her. And if she entered the room while I was writing a post, I'd have to change screens so she wouldn't see what I was doing (especially with that great big logo at the top showing various Blyton characters in full colour) - and I'd have to do it before she actually came in, because she might feel a bit offended if she saw me hiding something. It's not easy to admit that you're still interested in Enid Blyton when you're in your 50s.

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I have to say that to some extent I agree with Abi on this. 22 people have registered this month and haven't even logged in. There is no pressure on anybody to post in the forums, but if you don't want to do so there is no need to register as everything on here is available for anyone to read whether they are registered or not. It is not one of these forums where you can only read posts if you register.
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MJE wrote:     And what of it if a number of people have joined the forum, but haven't posted (yet, or at all)? They are doing no-one any harm.
Indeed. I belong to a Yahoo Group (BTF interest) and I have never posted. I enjoy reading the posts and following links to forthcoming BTF DVDs, but have never felt the need to post.
None of my friends or family know of my secret interest in Enid Blyton, and they think I grew out of her in the late 1960s, when I was about 16.
Since the latest batch of Society Picnic photos appeared on Facebook, most people now know of my interest in Enid Blyton! To my amazement, I haven't had my leg pulled at all!
And if she entered the room while I was writing a post, I'd have to change screens so she wouldn't see what I was doing .....and I'd have to do it before she actually came in, because she might feel a bit offended if she saw me hiding something. It's not easy to admit that you're still interested in Enid Blyton when you're in your 50s.
I'm in my 60s and I see nothing to worry about in admitting to having an interest in a children's authoress' books. If it were porn or other unsavoury pursuits, maybe I would feel ashamed and/or embarrassed.
Tony wrote:I have to say that to some extent I agree with Abi on this. 22 people have registered this month and haven't even logged in.
Yes, that is harder to understand. There is no need to register to view our posts, so why bother if you have no intention of posting?





    
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Concealing one's interest in Blyton.

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Moonraker wrote:Since the latest batch of Society Picnic photos appeared on Facebook, most people now know of my interest in Enid Blyton! To my amazement, I haven't had my leg pulled at all!
     On your Facebook account, Nigel, or the E.B.S.'s? Do your friends and family all inspect the E.B.S. Facebook page to see that you're there?
     If I went to Enid Blyton events and the pictures included me and got posted somewhere public, I might give thought to whether my friends and family would be likely to see them - and if they were likely to, I would be rather concerned. Fortunately, though, I think it's vanishingly unlikely they would see them. Certainly none of them would visit the E.B.S. Facebook page (or any other site linked to the E.B.S.), and they probably wouldn't visit my own Facebook page. I doubt most of them even know about my Facebook page, and I don't tell them. And if everyone knew about my Facebook page, I simply wouldn't put anything on it that I wasn't prepared for the whole world to see, including anyone who may not like me or who may be critical of me.
     Which makes me wonder about young people who put pictures of them drunk on their Facebook pages or make bad comments about their boss at work, and then wonder why they lose their jobs. I mean, what were they thinking? Probably not at all - otherwise they'd know that it's a common practice for employers or potential employers to search for information on (potential) employees.
Moonraker wrote:I'm in my 60s and I see nothing to worry about in admitting to having an interest in a children's authoress' books. If it were porn or other unsavoury pursuits, maybe I would feel ashamed and/or embarrassed.
     If someone did happen to see me suddenly switching screens, I guess it might look as if I were trying to hide porn or something - but it is just hiding Enid Blyton. Sorry if it sounds treacherous in the present company - but sometimes you do have to hide certain things, even if in fairness you shouldn't have to.
     I guess we're different; some people do think it's inappropriate for an adult to be so interested in the books of their childhood, and some of them happen to be in my family or friends. Well, they may not have *said* they think it's inappropriate, but in some cases I feel safe in inferring it from what I know of them, or from indirect comments they've made. And my father did once see a children's book in my possession (not an Enid Blyton book) and quite openly laughed about it. To be sure, we'd just had an argument at the time (my relations with him were not always the best), so that probably made him react more meanly than he would usually do; but even so, it did reveal what was undoubtedly a real belief he had about certain interests being inappropriate for an adult. (It sometimes seems that people try to excuse bad behaviour or words by saying they were either angry or drunk at the time. That may be true - but it's probably exactly when you're angry or drunk that you reveal your true attitudes.)
     I've heard people say that you eventually reach an age where you are blissfully uncaring about what anyone thinks about you, and you let it all hang out. Well, although I'm much closer to being an old man than I would really like to be, I have evidently not reached that age, and don't think I'm ever likely to reach such a point.
Tony wrote:I have to say that to some extent I agree with Abi on this. 22 people have registered this month and haven't even logged in.
     Just wondering, Tony, whether you dislike lots of non-posters being registered. Does it create technical problems with the forum software or something? I wouldn't have thought that a member's records would consume much computer storage space, especially if they don't do anything.
Moonraker wrote:Yes, that is harder to understand. There is no need to register to view our posts, so why bother if you have no intention of posting?
     Maybe some people initially believe you must register even to read posts: this is actually true on some forums. But I also imagine some people register because they have a degree of interest, but simply don't know at that point if they will post or not.

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I suspect Nigel may have been tagged in some of the EBS photos or commented on them which would link his Facebook profile to them.

The main annoyance (to me) of people who register and don't post is that they use up usernames. I've been toying with the idea of asking to have the 1986 removed from my name but as "Fiona" has already been taken by someone who I think has never posted, I'd have to think up something different to add.
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Fiona1986 wrote:The main annoyance (to me) of people who register and don't post is that they use up usernames. I've been toying with the idea of asking to have the 1986 removed from my name but as "Fiona" has already been taken by someone who I think has never posted, I'd have to think up something different to add.
     Yes, I guess that is a point I hadn't thought of. There have been occasions when I tried to register somewhere with my Christian name and surname, surname with one or both initials, and so on - but they were all taken up, because my names are very common ones.
     I think using actual names (or Christian name at least, if some anonymity is wanted) - or even initials - is actually preferable to using some elaborate nickname - so I normally use some permutation or other of my name, initials, or a combination of both. Perhaps it's just an illusion, but to me the really strange nicknames which are not names of any sort at all, but just phrases of some sort, seem more anonymous somehow.
     I won't embarrass anyone by pointing out real examples here (there are many - probably the majority of members), but I find it slightly disorienting to see someone called "xxxxx yyyyyy", but after reading several discussions they are in, I learn their name is actually Robert or Mary or something. Then, if I want to talk to them, I don't quite know whether to call them Robert or Mary or xxxxx yyyyyy.

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"what's in a name? A rose by any other name will smell as good"

Yeah it sucks when your christian names already taken, it's like somebody's stolen your identity, Lawrence has already gone so I'm lwindrush which sounds like a disease.

I don't have a disease by the way, not unless the doctors hiding something.
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User-names.

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lwindrush wrote:"what's in a name? A rose by any other name will smell as good"
     The name you know someone by really can influence the way you perceive them - logically or not. Old proverbs are not always correct, even if Shakespeare wrote them.
lwindrush wrote:Yeah it sucks when your christian names already taken, it's like somebody's stolen your identity, Lawrence has already gone so I'm lwindrush which sounds like a disease.
     What would be wrong with initials, then, like I do? I'm assuming most people wouldn't want to use their surname, although I dare say it would probably be safe enough if, like me, you have an extremely common one. When I first got on the Internet, I was unaware of privacy issues and I even used my full name without a thought. I'm probably a little careful now. I've just somehow never been able to take to strange or eccentric user-names - and besides, I don't have the imagination to think up one that would be suitable.

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