I'm Sad

To be fair, Keith, I was around plenty when you had your surgery and there were plenty of people here that thought you were rude. Probably just as many people thought you were rude as people that thought you were helpful. Many did not like the perceived "tone" of your posts or even just the flat our words you chose to use in order to give out "tough love" as you would call it.

True and factual observations can still come off as complaints. It's all in how you word things. For example, you made a true and factual statement that a site like this is free to users so it needs advertisers. However, when you preface this statement with "Something you need to realize..." comes off as condescending. True and factual can be a complaint. True and factual can be condescending.

If you're all charged up about being consistently active again, I say go for it. But, it seems to me you are accusing others of being rude, when the tone of your posts can often be perceived that way as well.

Many people do their daily posting and conversations in the daily menu thread on each of the forums.

That's not a great place for off topic conversations as they do not get the visibility they need to get the most feedback. Someone who asks a question about a problem may get two or three responses in the daily menu thread where if they created a new topic may get 5 to 10 or more. If its a really hot topic many pages of responses.

It always surprises me when people who don't participate come back to OH to complain about the lack of activity.

Judging by the ratio of positive to negative responses to my post I can clearly see why the activity on this forum is down.

Why would you expect people who ARE active and have remained so to respond positively to your whining about forum inactivity when you, yourself, are part of the problem you're complaining about?

Actually I am not, the expectation would be on a forum is as old users drop off new users would come in. That is how it was when you joined and it was when I joined. Not sure why you are such a bitter, negative person, but I hope whatever is causing it gets better for you.

Dude - you're the one who came to the forums just to post about how sad you are that they're not living up to your expectations.

But, please, if you're saddened by the lack of activity - stick around to help. Pay it forward. Help answer the questions of new users on a daily basis. Post to the daily meal threads. Share your experiences.

As one of the relatively new members here, I'd be sorely disappointed to wander around hitting brick walls in the dark with all the other new members. I appreciate the vets who have stuck around and patiently answered questions (some that were asked over & over again, by myself included). There are still plenty of them here, maybe you just don't see their posts?

I'm so disappointed in the negative response you have been getting. You weren't being negative, as far as I could tell, but you sure got negative back. These responses make me uncomfortable and is one of the reasons I don't post or read as much anymore.