The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #39012 Message #553396
Posted By: John Hardly
18-Sep-01 - 03:11 PM
Thread Name: Has Mudcat changed your thinking?
Subject: RE: Has Mudcat changed your thinking?
I couldn't agree more with what M.Ted said (rhyme time). As to learning to keep my mouth shut. Mudcat has spilled over into my 3D life in that it made me realize--in a graphic way that polite folk might not have told me--that what I have to offer to a conversation isn't often that interesting.
Being the gregarious and somewhat opinionated type, I usually took people's politeness to mean that they were interested in what I had to say. When I first came to the Mudcat, it was a bit painful to have my participation in a thread completely ignored. But it was a good learning experience to make myself go back, read my posts, and realize that my offerings weren't interesting/funny/tasteful.
Now, when a big event happens such as we've all just experienced, I'm at least a bit more likely to sit back and listen to others first (or maybe only.
...sure cuts down on the need to use my keypad much though...
I've learned that earnest questions are far more welcome than declarative sentences.
There is a mudcat "language" and it may take a good year to learn it...and you may never speak it.