OT - Are you someone else online?

lostinrates

SingleSue wrote: »

To me a new member is the same as an old member....if I find them funny or informative, it doesn't matter one jot if they have one star or five stars.

Couldn't care how many stars a person ha, but old posters often feel like friends. The board badly needs new blood. New people, new opinions, new stories I find most welcome.

fc123

SingleSue wrote: »

I was once a newcomer to this board and at first didn't think I would belong as I am not a home owner or even a person who wants to own but after trying other boards where my particular sense of humour doesn't quite work (people think I am being serious which 90% of the time, I am not!), I found this board had fellow warped and weird humour people in it.

So it felt like home and here I stayed, only to venture out when it's a full moon into the mortgage board (ok a bit more often than that to be honest).

To me a new member is the same as an old member....if I find them funny or informative, it doesn't matter one jot if they have one star or five stars.

Serious Q here....I so don't think this board is that weird or strange at all.
Is it?

OK, some strong views and a few that get a bit addicted for a while....but addictions often come from feelings of insecurity or being unheard/unlistened to, perhaps in Real Life, and, it passes after a while.

SingleSue

I don't think it's weird either but other people see us as pretty weird types....I just know I am weird with a warped sense of humour which sits quite happily on this board but very few others.

Always

I'm always just me although I do use different names on different sites - only because years and years ago I used to post a lot on various sites and learnt quite quickly it's nice to be able to escape one site for another sometimes

Have made a lot of real life friends through forums so don't see the point in pretending to be someone I'm not - would hate to disappoint

abinanthanb

With this, I have voted with all my 5 ids here!

SailorSam

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That's an interesting thought, so can somebody tell me how long i have to wait before you like me.

wageslave

Well deleting the sig might help.

treliac

SailorSam wrote: »

That's an interesting thought, so can somebody tell me how long i have to wait before you like me.

In no time at all if you join in, are friendly and chatty, while paying some attention to the fact that it's a House Prices and Economy board.

I think that's what makes this such a great board. People know the boundaries of good taste (or they soon find out). Every reasonable money saver is accepted and it's a great community.

Some are pretty outspoken but I hold to my view that this is a friendly and accepting place to hang out.

treliac

wageslave wrote: »

Well deleting the sig might help.

It's a commonly held belief wageslave.

wageslave

and he deletes the sig