I have had a question similiar to this, wondering why people give me charm points for starting such a great topic, but then they don't reply. Heh heh...
I think sometimes there are just certain posts I have to think about for quite awhile before I feel that I can post a legitimate reply too. There are also some types of threads I have to feel a certain way to reply to. If I'm not feeling in a very debative mood, then there are some posts I simply cannot post in. It's all about what attitude I'm feeling.
I often give charm points for great topics, but do not reply. The reason is... with almost 13,000 posts under my belt I do not want to look like the 'auto responder', but this is another topic.
If I come here and do not reply it is because I just do not have the time. In most cases I log in here to make sure everything is active and that there are no spammers doing silly things. I believe the Community is not just for me, but for everyone else, I am just the background guy to keep everything working, however I tend to fill in the blanks as needed.
I have to say that when I visit and do not post it is in most cases a state of mind. I fall now and again into a state of mind that I do want to log on and post but by the time I get to my computer and get everything pulled up I.. Not so much loose interest in posting but my mind wanders past a point at which I can do anything constructive. It is almost like a constant lost thought I guess. This usually passes with a few hours by which time I will have most likely made an appearance. Staying busy does get in the way on some days also but rarely if I am busy will I actually have the ability to sit down at my computer.
This is interesting. I often times will come and see what the new topics are and if I am running short on time, I might just read some and think on them for the day and then come back with a more constructive post than I might have had if I just wing it. Sometimes I do just wing it, but usually I think out what I want to say. Otherwise I sound like this, all rambly and devoid of sense! :laughs:
If I don't post, it's mostly a time issue. I do sometimes like to think about what I want to say, to make the post more constructive. For example, I have a couple of threads in mind I really want to post to, but I want to do a little research on them first. There are tons of topics to pique my interest, and I haven't even seen everything yet!
I have found that sometimes you have to be in the 'mood' and the 'mode', BUT what is real incentive I have found is personal opinion attacks or in other words, when someone attacks (contradicts) the concept of another then that awakens a fore to respond - tired or not.
When I first started, I would log on the forum every single day. Then for a short period, I stopped posting because I thought that I had finished responding to all my favourite topics. About a month ago, I accidentally discovered that each thread has more than one page. I got excited again and decided to sift through threads that tweaked my interest.