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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I love hearing about people's lives. I came to AB for serious questions and answers but started to build a rapport with people who I wanted to find out more about (that's just the kind of person I am). I admit I ask personal Q's but they are intended as purely as fun. I'm not posting the same question repeatedly and as far as I know people have fun answering them. We all know the category that the majority of these 'stupid' Q's are posted, but it's not compulsory to read or answer them. It might knock other posts down, but do what I do, go onto the next page until you're up to date- it's only an extra click of the mouse.
Let's all just have a bit of fun! (That's me done- I don't enjoy being serious :-) x
Hi all
Greetings to the most high Zeus -
indeed, we are currently in talks on how to better organise the ole AB. Changes will not happen overnight though...regulars will know that time moves a bit slower on the AB than in realtime (whatever that is)...we do not want the AB to turn into a big chat room, but there is room for informal banter - just check out the folks in Q&P or indeed those who post in Sports. What gets boring is people complaining and then people complaining about people complaining. Those posts will be removed, if only because they annoy your moderator.
Welcome stylinsam!
Like I said before, the problem is not with the friendly chatty NATURE of the posts, it is the amount of them. There are so many "how are you today?" type posts going on at the moment, that the genuine questions are being pushed off the bottom of the page far faster than normal. This means that people who need a response about an emotional or medical issue are not getting the amount of responses they might, because more questions are being posted-for the sake of it- about not very much at all.
I agree that this is not a chat site- it is an Answer bank, where people come to genuinely get an answer/opinion from as many people as possible. People are in a fix and need help. I have actually stopped reading the questions in Body and Soul now, because they have become so trite! But I do want to help people who genuinely would like a response to a problem, not a discussion on our favourite colours etc.
No offfence meant, everyone!