"tagging along"

[dtaranath]

tagging along.








oh wait a minute, i started this.

[Avast Marine]

^ That was the funniest post I have read in a really long time!

[Maxxumless]

I don’t want to get into sociology, but ‘tagging along’ is a carryover of normal and expected human [conversation] behavior. It’s generally considered rude to ‘secretly’ listen in on peoples conversation thus the ‘need’ for people to be polite in their interest of someone else’s conversation. Think of ‘tagging along’ as the real person to person conversation equivalent of ‘Hello, I’m Joe and I couldn’t help but overhear what you were saying… I’d like to hear more.� Yes, you have nothing to offer the conversation, however subconsciously you feel the need to tell others that you are listening. The internet is quickly changing our culture – pretty soon we’ll have people pulling seats over to our dinner tables to listen in on our conversations without so much as an excuse me.

[Randall_James]

Originally posted by Maxxumless
I don’t want to get into sociology, but ‘tagging along’ is a carryover of normal and expected human [conversation] behavior. It’s generally considered rude to ‘secretly’ listen in on peoples conversation thus the ‘need’ for people to be polite in their interest of someone else’s conversation. Think of ‘tagging along’ as the real person to person conversation equivalent of ‘Hello, I’m Joe and I couldn’t help but overhear what you were saying… I’d like to hear more.� Yes, you have nothing to offer the conversation, however subconsciously you feel the need to tell others that you are listening. The internet is quickly changing our culture – pretty soon we’ll have people pulling seats over to our dinner tables to listen in on our conversations without so much as an excuse me.

Except since the inception of message boards it has been called "Lurking" and is acceptable as it is considered a "Public Forum" and not a "private conversation"

[Maxxumless]

Originally posted by Randall_James
Except since the inception of message boards it has been called "Lurking" and is acceptable as it is considered a "Public Forum" and not a "private conversation"

You are taught (or should) manners long before you start surfing the message boards is my point. And it is subconscious after all.

[Randall_James]

So aww lurking is bad manners?
Seems it would put a lot of useless messages on the boards if everyone was polite enough to post "Just Tagging Along" just because they were following a thread?

Would make a neat experiment all the same if everyone that was reading a particular thread would post "Tagging Along"

[crumbletop]

I don't think the point was that lurking was rude, it was that saying "just tagging along" is not rude. He was pointing out where that impulse for being polite may come from (from a sociological perspective).


Jack

[Maxxumless]

Originally posted by crumbletop
I don't think the point was that lurking was rude, it was that saying "just tagging along" is not rude. He was pointing out where that impulse for being polite may come from (from a sociological perspective).


Jack

bingo

[Avast Marine]

In our ongoing effort to continually improve Reef Central, the RC Staff would like to encourage everyone not to reply to threads with “Just Tagging Along� or other noncontributory comments. These kinds of replies are discourteous to the others who are subscribed to that thread as this causes them to reopen threads that have no useful additional information. It also makes it difficult for the moderators and Team RC members to find threads with no replies thus not serving the thread originator. If you want to follow a thread of interest, please use the “subscribe to this thread� link below the quick reply box. The effect will be the same. You can easily track the thread of interest in the subscribed threads section of your “My RC� page.

Ok. Since the topic is going in the direction of continually changing and advancing to fit in with internet subculture I would like for everyone to take a deep breath and consider social bookmarking as opposed to private bookmarking.
If for instance I like the advice or particular way a member of the boards answers a question or sheds light on a particular topic I may be interested in reading more of what that person has to say. Example:

I don’t want to get into sociology, but ‘tagging along’ is a carryover of normal and expected human [conversation] behavior. It’s generally considered rude to ‘secretly’ listen in on peoples conversation thus the ‘need’ for people to be polite in their interest of someone else’s conversation. Think of ‘tagging along’ as the real person to person conversation equivalent of ‘Hello, I’m Joe and I couldn’t help but overhear what you were saying… I’d like to hear more.� Yes, you have nothing to offer the conversation, however subconsciously you feel the need to tell others that you are listening. The internet is quickly changing our culture – pretty soon we’ll have people pulling seats over to our dinner tables to listen in on our conversations without so much as an excuse me.

I think this is a good comment and would like to hear some more thoughts by this person. I can get here pretty easy.

Now as far as I know there is no way for me to find out which of those reply's are on subscribed threads or just passing comments. Can I find out who is subscribed to my threads?

I guess I would rather see a Mod reply to a "Tagging Along" comment by asking "Why did you post that? What does Tagging Along mean to you? For what purpose are you chosing to use a two word reply? " or something to that nature, rather than the canned response.

To grow and change for the better as the wealth of information grows is a good thing, to stand in the same spot and be opposed to change stunts this growth.

I see there is a sticky at the top of the forums saying there is going to be some reorginization of these board. Good. I look forward to this not because I belive that the system is broken, but because that means Team RC is growing and changing in a positive manner. I hope that continues as long as I am a member.

Any thing I say is only my opinion.

Dan

[crumbletop]

Nice post, but where does the "here" take you? I tried it and got a "temporarily disabled due to high server load" message. I feel like I'm missing the one thing that will make my corals grow better Help!!!!

Jack

[Avast Marine]

Here takes you to a advance search page where you are able to see every post that a person has made. It won't work right now for you cause you aint paid up .
Without a doubt supporting RC and having access to the search engine is THE BEST $$$$ YOU CAN SPEND ON YOUR CORALS .