What's the deal? (crossposted by request)

[Randi]

Well, we've had this discussion before - a few times I believe.

It does seem that some people here go out of their way to NOT reply to certain other people’s posts, but then, PT has grown quite big over the last few years. I simply find it difficult to keep up, and I admit that I first look for threads or posts started by the ones I know best, AND for the ones writing funny, informative, or simply well written posts - but I always take a look if a subject is interesting to me, and if I have time, I reply.

When I don’t have much time, I tend to reply to posts which are on the first few pages, then later, I may take another look and find the rest. I don’t bother replying to posts when I can see the person hasn’t made an effort to even spell it right, or is using run-on sentences.

However, there are some examples of members who always get lots of replies, and NOT only people who have been here a long time, or has many posts. Some of you knew John (Jonza), he used to get quite a few replies to his posts, even though he had less than 300.

Cinder and Smoke is another good example, but of course, they have some excellent helpers in Boots, Bowser and Phred. I suppose we all enjoy posts with some substance!