This Waas Talked About Before

[jennyjoan]

Why does most people when they get answers not reply with an acknowledgement even

[-Talbot-]

If you had not come back to this thread, jenny...it would have been ironic.
You did eventually return, so the irony was no more.

[Prudie]

I will - at the time all he meant was you posted a question about people not acknowledging their answers and you didn't come back to thread for nearly 5 hours, that was ironic. He didn't mean anything about you not thanking people. It's douglas' sense of humour, nothing to worry about. That's my interpretation anyway.

[jennyjoan]

oh ok thanks for that Eccles - but I do get around - thank you - it 5 hours or not. at 9.10 I was going back to bed then just waiting for all the lovely replies. Thanks again just cos I couldn't get it.

[HansUrbancka]

In the Technology section of AB, an Original Poster may have been given a number of different suggestions to solve a Computer problem and then responds with a thank you along the lines of ..."Thanks, all sorted".

A Techie then asks " What did you do to resolve matters"........End of thread, because OP has disappeared.

Feed back, feed back is more important than actual 'Thank Yous'.

Hans.

[Canary42]

What the critics don't seem to realise is that not all Abers haunt the site round the clock. Some only visit the site 2 or 3 times a week, some even less, so to make an issue of 5 hours without a response is ridiculous IMHO. Some of us have a life outside AnswerBank.

[Mamyalynne]

There can be many reasons for a lack of reply - as you have just proved JennyJoan - some ask a question then go off to do something else and may return hours later or even days later.

Some may simply not see the need , I personally was always brought up to thank.

However as mainly an answerer, I tend to shrug and forget about it.



I think in the practical topics it is even more important, expert advice for free is great.

[jennyjoan]

but sometimes mamy - I don't maybe get around to thanking quickly because I am just waiting on more replies before I do and maybe give a BA too - am bad at that too.