Opening Posts, Ops. Lead Posts

[barry1010]

Whatever you want to call them. If you post an OP and create a thread, do you feel that it is your thread?

[andy-hughes]

I don't - some do.

[Mamyalynne]

Nominally it would be my thread, but I would have thrown it open to all to comment therefore apart from the usual ways I have no further control over the content.

[barry1010]

That's how I feel, Mamya and Andy. Some seem very precious about it or feel it is a big personal achievement to get a lot of replies.

I just enjoy seeing how a thread develops, once the question has been addressed, of course.

[Prudie]

In my experience that is the general unwritten rule on here yes.

[Ellipsis]

Only to the extent that I feel I should select a Best Answer at some point.

[Mamyalynne]

Most days I only post one thread (the same repetitive one that seems to infuriate those who don't cone on it) - answers range from zero to (pick a number,I don't keep a tally).

We have over a decade or so reached a sort of unwritten protocol which works well overall.

[andy-hughes]

Prudie // In my experience that is the general unwritten rule on here yes. //

In my experience, the exact opposite is true.

Hardly anyone comes on and refers to 'my thread' - if ever I encounter it, I am delighted to shoot it down for the incorrect assumption of 'ownership' that it is.

When I write an article or review, it is my piece, or my opinion, but it doesn't 'belong' to me in the sense that I have any control over the reactions to it, or can infer that people can only respond in a way that I deem to be acceptable.

[jno]

it's your gift to the world.

[douglas9401]

It's mine if I write it but feel free to comment, even if it ends up all about you, whoever you are. X

[Prudie]

Well you probably don't go on the threads I'm talking about then Andy, I've lost count of postings such as:
Sorry to digress on your thread
If you want to discuss that start your own thread
Sorry to interrupt your thread (insert name) but how is your leg/wife/dog (insert another name)
Come on (insert name) let's you get up to 100 answers
Yippee that makes 200 on my thread
etc

[andy-hughes]

jno - // it's your gift to the world. //

Not really, with the exception of one blues magazine for whom I write for free because I like the music and the magazine, I am paid for everything else I contribute professionally.

[andy-hughes]

Prudie - // Well you probably don't go on the threads I'm talking about then Andy,
I've lost count of postings such as:
Sorry to digress on your thread
If you want to discuss that start your own thread
Sorry to interrupt your thread (insert name) but how is your leg/wife/dog (insert another name)
Come on (insert name) let's you get up to 100 answers
Yippee that makes 200 on my thread
etc //

No, I do see them, and ignore them.

The only ones I shoot at are ones where people say things like "You came on MY thread and said this …" - that gets a response because the assumption of ownership is used in order to tell another AB'er - often me! - that they can't say this or that - and of course, they can.

[royfromaus]

barry, if you were to mention this thread on another thread and mention the person who opened it, would you say

A thread about Opening Posts, Ops. Lead Posts started by barry 1010

Or
my thread about Opening Posts, Ops. Lead Posts



?

[Mozz71]

I don't much care what is written on it, but I consider it my thread and will watch it closer than another thread, to see what's happening with it.

[andy-hughes]

I don't often start threads, but when I have, I have never referred to them as 'my threads' because I don't believe that they are.

[Spicerack]

I cry when no-one answers mine. Happens quite a bit.

[Mamyalynne]

I cheat and answer myself Spice.

[Spicerack]

So do I, to be honest, mamya, but it's not the same.
Always when my thread is languishing, there'll be one of those 'what's for dinner' jobbies with 100+ answers. Oh well.

[Mamyalynne]

Always the Bridesmaid ;-)

[Spicerack]

eem to have put a damper on this one between us. ;-)