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Okay so, not sure how to word this. But I have a series of theories about the WP community that all kinda go together, so Ima make three polls to gather data and see if my theories are correct or incorrect. I'll link the other two at the bottom of this post! Please comment your thoughts on this theory and if you've noticed other things as well! If you all disagree, please comment why or award the post that explains why you disagree! I've noticed here on WP that a lot of real world trends and such translate over. I also have noticed that in chat a lot too. People who have been around for years AND have been active in chat for years, as well as the newbies on the site, get payed more attention to. Like I've tried for years to start being an active chat member, but most people don't notice that I've said anything. I think the reason for this has to be that people have become familiar with those who have been active in chat for years so they're more comfortable with this people and have made friends with them, meanwhile with the newbies people want to help them and welcome them into the WP community. So they get a jumpstart, but with us in the middle, we've been around for awhile so we don't need that big warm welcome that WP is amazing at, but we also haven't formed those bonds or that popularity or we once had it and it has since faded away. Edit: For clarification I'm not talking about a "middle aged" group, as in people who aren't veterans to the game vs. Newbies. That's not what I mean at all. The comparison I'm trying to make is more between Newbies & packs that are more active in chat vs those who aren't newbies anymore but have fallen off the grid a bit or just arent super active in the chat scene Id love to collab with a few people to test this theory and gather data!
Theory List
Theory 1 Theory 3 Total Votes: 16
| Yes : | 7 | 44% | | | No : | 5 | 31% | | | Sort of? : | 3 | 19% | | | Reaper try again, I don't understand : | 1 | 6% | | You have cast your vote. Edited at November 18, 2024 02:40 PM by Dont Fear The Reaper |
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Unlike my thinking for Theory 1, I'm not sure if I agree here. (Then again, I might still fall under the "newbies" umbrella even though I have over 200 days here) But mainly the people that I talk to in chat are friends. Like, I-spam-you-with-five-thousand-PMs-a-day friends. I don't really talk to anyone else in chat Starters like "hi chat" just don't work. There's no incentive for anyone to reply to you unless you're their friend and they're happy to see you online But... I'm not sure if I agree. I don't know if I agree with your middle-aged principle. I think it's just your principle is coincidence that there aren't many people in that area, and the friends you might have had in your middle-aged area are just gone. ... yeah I don't know lol |
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Lightbringer
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Okay I might have worded that wrong then. What I'm trying to say is more of, people who don't fall under the newbie category (I consider 2 months to be the absolute cap on that) that either kind of stop talking as frequently or just stop talking and instead make comments randomly, or try to start a conversation, typically don't get as much traction/replies |
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Yeah, but the lack of people that are comfortable with replying to you is less Provided I'm actually paing attention to chat, if one of my friends posted something in chat I'd jump in after them But I agree. It's less traction either because no-one knows exactly how to answer it (example; "hi chat") and/or because no-one exactly knows them either. I'd be less comfortable replying to a "hi chat" from someone I don't know than someone on my friends list, for example. I guess it more depends on how many people you actually know in chat that are willing to talk to you. Because a lot of the day I'm stalking chat and since I don't want to randomly interrupt people I don't know I just don't really say anything lol |
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Lightbringer
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Can you explain that more? I'm not sure I quite understand because from where I'm sitting it looks like we're trying to say the same thing in different things |
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My point is that the less people in chat that know you and/or are comfortable with talking to you, the less traction your reply is likely to get. A lot of times when comments are randomly made, it's either peopl that know you who comment first, or chat kind of dies a horrible death I'm saying I doubt it's just the "middle-aged" bracket you're talking about that has this problem. It's just the problem when someone is consistently not too active in chat. Any revival methods are somewhat thwarted by the fact that one has been inactive in chat for a bit and resultantly doesn't have many connections to people actively in chat. |
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I think that's another problem of miswording then, because that's half of my point. I complete agree with you. I guess the "middle age" isnt what I'm trying to talk about, it's more of those who no longer fall into the newbie category and havent been active in chat/their people have left. Thanks for bringing that up, I'm gonna have to go edit for clarification |
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The point of my argument though is the fact that you need friends in chat to be able to talk. It's natural. You're less inclined to chat to someone you don't actually know well. Because what I'm saying here is that it's just natural that you don't chat to someone that you don't know as well. Like, you would be less inclined to start talking to a random person sitting next to you on the bus than you would someone you work all day with. It's not just the WP chat, in this case, then. |
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From my understanding y'all are saying the same thing ^^" Just wording it slightly differently. I had something to add to this earlier but ended up forgetting it so apologies for that but I agree with the theory ^^ I'll probably edit this when I remember the thing |
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