A Day In The Life Of …………….

@rogue trader wrote:

ok lets use balloons as an example for a minute
if I was to reply to her,well don’t you bother explain balloons
because your opinions in here carry about as much weight as a dodgy kwik save bag with one handle and a little hole just starting to flourish at the bottom
would that be perceived as

1,banter
2,abusive
3,hes just having a laugh
4,sneaky snidey barstard always trying to get a dig in
5,just a case of familiarity breeding contempt
6,other

To whom? Balloons… or other readers?

You asked how it would be perceived – but that’s the key point, perception. There are several factors that would determine what category this fell into – and the category would be different for each individual. Your past interactions with Balloons play a part – for her as well as other readers – i.e. is this something you two do for fun etc.

Any prior experience of you would also play a part. If people consider you a ‘digger’ in general, then that would most likely shape their view of this post, for example. Others may see it as a little wind up not intended to cause much offence but just to provoke a reaction. Those who speak to you in private, will have a different opinion to those who don’t etc. etc. The same applies to Balloons – what perception do people have of her?

In short, there are a multitude of factors that would determine how such a post would be perceived by each individual reader – leading to many different conclusions.

@irish_lucy wrote:

@rogue trader wrote:

if anybody wrote a thread about me like that
id me mortified and would never go in a chat room again.

Shame you didn’t say type on boards, i was almost half tempted :twisted:

Had to chuckle at that!

@kent f OBE wrote:

Love the bit of the amount of views and no comments….but Coats not bothered…..oh no!! Who the hell reads how many views they get???
The issue we have here is …Coat doesn’t like negative feedback……historically he hasn’t had much negativity….its all been praise.

I think, if everybody is being honest, then we’re all ‘bothered’ to a certain extent – otherwise, why post on a public forum in the first place? Does anybody really post a new topic and not check for replies? Exactly. Anybody who claims they’re not bothered are fooling one person, maximum – and it ain’t anybody else :D

I take my post counts,threads,views,replies very seriously
every man should have nay the right to a hobby
and the above is mine

all mine.

@omalleythealleycat wrote:

@rogue trader wrote:

well yeh mal good point
so
I suppose its just a case of horses for courses
different strokes for>>>>>>
we are basically all onions in the same melting pot
and that folks

is why we are here.

Aye Rogue. Add in the fact that interpreting the typed word is far from an exact science.. and the result is pretty predictable. How many times do you read comments/reactions on these boards and think to yourself “Okayyyy.. I think someone got the wrong end of the stick there” ?

well I don’t really want to go deep into this mal,but I think its just a case of the written word shows no emotion,thats why lol and emoticons were invented so sensitive people knew ,you weren’t having a “pop” at them.