Series of posts and posters

[Don]

I'm just wondering if anyone else has noticed this:

It seems to me that this board (and other forums) will attract different people who will post similar questions at the same time. I have no belief that they are the same person, it just seems like the same questions develop at the same time.

It also seems to me that the attitudes of posters come in bunches, too. There will be some eager posters looking for more information. A few days later there will be some angry posters trying to get people angry. After that there will be some people who ask questions, but they are looking for particular answers and will argue with anyone who doesn't give the answer they desire.

Or am I simply seeing patterns where none exist?

[haitham]

I am i still wondering how news are created?"Attitudes of posters do come in bunches indeed"!
For you to study and for us joniours to find out why :)

[Terry (existing)]

No Don it is not your imagination. I suppose the answer is simple enough though. People lurk on boards such as this feeling unable to ask questions of a personal nature until someone else does so, and then the floodgates open.....
As to attitudes, why shouldn't they vary? Mine change from day to day, and also from post to post, since I am normal, and react to those I feel sympathetic towards, and differently to those whom I see as attempting to suck from others without using their own God given talents to help themselves.....
One nice thing I have noted however, and that is the willingness of many of our new members to rush to comfort those who seem most in need of help....I think that the posts which strike me most, are those which suggest a mental breakdown of a serious nature, and I wonder were these people went before we existed! I do note however, that non of the posters offer an area were they live, so perhaps some of them are from persons who have nothing better to do that write letters to the editor (G) I suppose who could hope this is the case, since having so many in dire need of help suggests something serious is amiss with the health both physical and mental, of those with whom we share this planet, while if they are from provocateurs they are nothing more than mischievous..........

[haitham]

There will be some eager posters looking for more information. A few days later there will be some angry posters trying to get people angry. After that there will be some people who ask questions, but they are looking for particular answers and will argue with anyone who doesn't give the answer they desire.
I will start from the point 'what actually brought me to this forum'!
Answer: I thought i had a psycological problem.

Q: How did I get to reach here, and why here?
A: Telepethatically, one of this forum members had the answer of the question that I wanted to ask.

Q: Why do you meet angry posters?
A: Because I at least want you to take a deffensive position so that you will ask yourself thousend times where did you go wrong, sorry! and what made me angry, so that i will be able to explore your brain searching for the answer of my problem, and there might be another thing, i believe that you know the answer, it's there, in your mind and you don't want to give it to me.

Q: I am i looking for a particular answer.
A: Aha! and i think that you are more transpirant than you think!:)

Indeed according to my believe the people that come over to this forum are smart enough and very sensitive,and can contact eachothers and ofcours you guys telepethetacly, so if they have no meen to contact you in person they will naturally pop up here using almost the same technique, that i did above to make you think deeper about there problems, as I believe (if there was noone else that believes so) that you guys are the masters of this art, I seek a logical explenation to my problem, and i do not intened to get out of here empty handed, I know exactly how to make you at least think about my problem and that's what i am gonna make you do, frank enough?
Forgive me please if i say i've just realised the way things work for me.

[Neurotic1]

Hi Don
I'm just wondering if anyone else has noticed this:

Or am I simply seeing patterns where none exist?
Hmmm. It is human nature to look for patterns. I think (IMO lol) that there are patterns to be found in everything, even if they are random (sic).

Some of the similar threas may be due to one person reading another's thread and thinking 'you know that applies a bit to me or I have a question like that' but maybe they want a more personalised response?

Interesting thought.

There must certainly be the pattern of new thread > responses at least!

[Simple Guy]

Don,

I guess it's the result of energy, resonance and attention that brings a
similarity of posts. I wonder, sometimes, if the occasional angry
posters will benefit by any positive learnings that can result by
a recognition that anger (and similar reactivity) is often an expression
of projection of internal stuff that can (in the right place and context)
beneficially be addressed.

I also wonder what positive input is missing in this board by those that visit
and never post. I do know that the potential benefit to some of these
people is more than they or I realize. As of yet, their lack of participation
also precludes benefit to others here and the forum as a group.

[Unregistered]

just seems to me that people are searching for key words for help in google and obviously see the reply of one person that relates and then replies and then another person does the same and so on...

there will soon be another 'new' topic saying something else and whole range of the same kind of stuff will come in with people wanting to tell their story and get their own personal responces.

[Merlin]

Hi Don,

It could be that lurkers feel more comfortable to post when they see someone post something similar.

[skip]

spot on Mer!

[parsa]

Interesting observation Don. Funny thing is that I see similar parterns with students(I teach). If the class doesn't exceed 30 to 35 you often start seeing paterns, as if the whole class is behaving the same way. I've always wondered why?

[Charlie]

Don't know about group patterns of posting/lurking, but I certainly seem to experience individual patterns of posting/lurking, within myself. ( ?perhaps it's an NLP meta-program - "post/lurk" - <g> )

(I am currently in lurk-mode, predominantly)