Why bother

I am afraid that I also think a lot of the asking for advice threads are trolls, I don't mean someone asking where to source a particular item for example, those are genuine! But the long complicated family problems ones are mostly trolls in my view.

If I type the first couple of letters of a GN's name in on my phone, three of the names on this thread come up. And many more from the group. So somewhere along the line I have conversed with a lot of people and given them suggestions or advice, or a rollocking, not that that's my style!. 😆 Whether they have all acknowledged my posts I couldn't tell you.

I dont botber too much about being thanked.....but I so want the OP to come back and say what he/she did in the end. Please please an update.

petra

This is to all those who feel like Billy no mates.
Post something controversial: you’ll get plenty of replies then. 😂

Spot on!

I usually get ignored on most forums but have my say anyway, the one thing I’ve noticed is I am a ‘closer’ coming on at the end of a thread and making a comment that marks the end of that thread, so too late to the party. Probs just repeating what others have already said anyway.
But get more responses on news & politics, though not always the responses I want, have to have a thick skin and think on your feet on that forum.
Also have made friends on the support for those estranged forum, which has helped me so much.
Thing is we all get ignored on some threads, but we should keep bothering because we all have something to say whether anyone responds is beside the point, am sure plenty of us read the comments, which is the main thing.

This is to all those who feel like Billy no mates.
Post something controversial: you’ll get plenty of replies then. 😂

Magenta8

See what I mean? I have posted on several chat threads since Monday and it seems to me that I am to be ignored in the hope that I will go away.

I’ve been on this site for 13 years, I’m ignored most of the time.
Does this face look bovered. No!
As to the op, I’ve given my opinion on this before and I did get replies to that post and they weren’t complementary 😂

But I think that’s the same for most of its isn’t it ?

I very rarely get an answer or even an acknowledgment that I am there. Just accept it now, and am grateful for the few I do get.

I don't.

You’re being a bit paranoid there Magenta
There are many occasions you don’t get an answer don’t let it bother you

See what I mean? I have posted on several chat threads since Monday and it seems to me that I am to be ignored in the hope that I will go away.

TBH I neither notice nor care if my advice is acknowledged. Quite often people offer the same information or advice further down a thread so I don't think most GNs read or pay too much attention to anything I post.

I don't remember having asked for advice on GN but if I have, I may not have expressed my gratitude in the approved manner for which I apologise.

I know how you feel, I wonder if the posters are as rude in real life.

I have often sat and contemplated someone’s dilemma then tried to give a measured response and nothing in return.
It’s just rude.