It's not a tech or Help Forum question - it's a sociological phenomenon. It's like when you're at a party and everybody is talking and laughing and having a good time, and you say something that you think is terribly witty, and then nobody says anything at all, and then they start making excuses for why they have to go home, and then you're left standing there all by yourself, wondering what happened.

It's happened to me. It's a horrible feeling. If there's a lively thread going and you post something, and nobody posts after you, you've killed it. Jeff and I decided to give dead BS threads a decent burial by setting them to close automatically if nobody posts to them for a given period of time - I think it's 6 months. We're generally happy to reopen closed threads if people ask us to, but it's usually pretty hard to resurrect a thread after it has been killed.

Now, if nobody posts after I've posted this message, I'm going to feel really bad....

-Joe Offer-

Say, does anybody know how I can hasten the death of the Help Joe On'er thread???