Tiki Central Burnout after the Oasis? - General Tiki

T Tangaroa Tiki Socialite Joined: Apr 25, 2002 Posts: 1566	T Tangaroa Posted posted on Thu, Jun 3, 2004 11:48 AM On 2004-05-31 20:21, hanford_lemoore wrote:there is curve that members go through ... they join, get excited, read a ton, do a lot of searches do a lot of posts, etc. After they've caught up on their searches they switch to just reading the new posts, then they slow down in their posting, then they pretty much stop posting and read only, and who knows, perhaps they stop reading after some point. ~Hanford I think I fall in that category - I find myself lurking more & posting less... I guess I'm only really interested in those great history posts that Sabu always seems to put out. As for posting myself, I have some good photos & things, but it always seems to take so much time to formulate a well written post, along with the time it takes to dig out the photos, scan them, push them up to my website & then put the whole thing on Tiki Central. I'm sure my boss wouldn't appreciate knowing it can take me 1 - 2 hours to do this! I did this page mainly for Tiki Central-ites: http://www.christophermerritt.com/family/TraderVicsThailand/Trader_Vics.html but how many people have looked at it? Well, a few more now! But seriously - why am I doing it? Probably to stroke my own ego & show off or something... Anyway, that page took me a looooooong time to put up! (NOTE: I just checked that page, and all the iPix links have been changed by Marriott - but am I gonna take the time to change it? Probably not...) If I feel that I want to share something tiki (or in my case usually theme park related) with the group, but - if it takes me too much time, I just kinda put it off & end up forgetting about it.... I guess I'm less interested in the posts now too - they all seem to have a sameness to them. Or maybe I'm jaded and/or burnt out too. Or maybe I'm just interested in the history aspect of tiki now - and very few posts seem to have that! Dunno - but I think I'm turning into a lurker, sad to say... "Oh mystic powers - hear my call... From my limbs, let new life fall..." http://www.christophermerritt.com [ Edited by: Tangaroa on 2004-06-03 11:52 ]

*On 2004-05-31 20:21, hanford_lemoore wrote:*there is curve that members go through ... they join, get excited, read a ton, do a lot of searches do a lot of posts, etc. After they've caught up on their searches they switch to just reading the new posts, then they slow down in their posting, then they pretty much stop posting and read only, and who knows, perhaps they stop reading after some point.

~Hanford

I think I fall in that category - I find myself lurking more & posting less... I guess I'm only really interested in those great history posts that Sabu always seems to put out. As for posting myself, I have some good photos & things, but it always seems to take so much time to formulate a well written post, along with the time it takes to dig out the photos, scan them, push them up to my website & then put the whole thing on Tiki Central. I'm sure my boss wouldn't appreciate knowing it can take me 1 - 2 hours to do this! I did this page mainly for Tiki Central-ites:
http://www.christophermerritt.com/family/TraderVicsThailand/Trader_Vics.html
but how many people have looked at it? Well, a few more now! But seriously - why am I doing it? Probably to stroke my own ego & show off or something... Anyway, that page took me a looooooong time to put up! (NOTE: I just checked that page, and all the iPix links have been changed by Marriott - but am I gonna take the time to change it? Probably not...) If I feel that I want to share something tiki (or in my case usually theme park related) with the group, but - if it takes me too much time, I just kinda put it off & end up forgetting about it....

I guess I'm less interested in the posts now too - they all seem to have a sameness to them. Or maybe I'm jaded and/or burnt out too. Or maybe I'm just interested in the history aspect of tiki now - and very few posts seem to have that! Dunno - but I think I'm turning into a lurker, sad to say...

"Oh mystic powers - hear my call...
From my limbs, let new life fall..."
http://www.christophermerritt.com

[ Edited by: Tangaroa on 2004-06-03 11:52 ]

Post #94395 by Tangaroa on Thu, Jun 3, 2004 11:48 AM