common courtesy ? or expecting too much .

coulddobetter

If someone goes out of their way to assist you on these fora do you not think it appropriate to thank them ?or is it just me who who gets irritated .

bennett_346

Fora?? This isn't a latin class, spit it out in English...

"...these forums".

cooldad

Some do, some don't, who cares. Lots of the 'help' is pretty useless anyway.
Life's too short.

ps I use fora too, being an intelligent Mackem. Unlike wannabe Geordies.

bennett_346

cooldad wrote:

Some do, some don't, who cares. Lots of the 'help' is pretty useless anyway.
Life's too short.

ps I use fora too, being an intelligent Mackem. Unlike wannabe Geordies.

Fora isn't an English word though.

intelligent Mackem

coulddobetter

The plural of forum is usually spelled forums; the plural fora (as in the original Latin) is chiefly used when talking about a public square in an ancient Roman city.( Oxford english dictionary )

I apologise.

Born a Scouser obviously moving south was a mistake !

bennett_346

coulddobetter wrote:

Born a Scouser obviously moving south was a mistake !

But seriously don't expect any love from this forum, several people have been forced to quit into a permanent state of sitting in the corner of a dark room crying and shaking.

cooldad

Repost in Crudcatcher and you might even feel the love.

Thewaylander

cooldad wrote:

Repost in Crudcatcher and you might even feel the love.

only once you've stalked him, and got the ditch ready.

Giraffoto

Common courtesy? You are indeed expecting too much. Observe this recent sparkling exchange that went from a question about brakes to handbags at dawn in about half an hour.

CitizenLee

A geeky Audio Visual Forum I frequent has a "thanks" button next to every post.

It's a nice way to show a bit of gratitude, and nice to get some back too.

bompington

Well, over here we've just finished collecting our stats on internet fora, and now we're sitting on our ba doing the sa. We'll put snapshots of the results in our family alba for our ma to see, and then we're off to lunch to feed our hungry ta.

welshkev

Giraffoto wrote:

Common courtesy? You are indeed expecting too much. Observe this recent sparkling exchange that went from a question about brakes to handbags at dawn in about half an hour.

I missed that one

and what sort of thank you were you expecting exactly OP?

cooldad

You may be common. I am special.

njee20

I use a forum which has about 10 buttons next to each post for folk to pres, it's faintly ridiculous. Off the top of my head there's like, dislike, agree, disagree, unintelligible or confusing, humorous, compassionate/supportive and thanks, among others. It's stupid. All this forum needs is the unintelligible one.

poah

Giraffoto wrote:

Common courtesy? You are indeed expecting too much. Observe this recent sparkling exchange that went from a question about brakes to handbags at dawn in about half an hour.

same usual 3 gays though

Kowalski675

No lycra here...

cooldad

Kowalski675 wrote:

No lycra here...

So you're saying you're the top?

Kowalski675

You wish.

Angus Young

cooldad wrote:

Some do, some don't, who cares. Lots of the 'help' is pretty useless anyway.
Life's too short.

It would kill you to say thank you?

cooldad

Angus Young wrote:

cooldad wrote:

Some do, some don't, who cares. Lots of the 'help' is pretty useless anyway.
Life's too short.

It would kill you to say thank you?

Nope, just injury and pain. Death is a bit extreme.

Although I can't remember the last time I asked for help.

I do post some helpful comments.

But mainly a lot of random useless ones.

A bit like yours.

Chunkers1980

I think you might've been having trouble with a wheel.

Angus Young

cooldad wrote:

Nope, just injury and pain. Death is a bit extreme.

Although I can't remember the last time I asked for help.

I do post some helpful comments.

But mainly a lot of random useless ones.

A bit like yours.

I'll take that as a grudging 'no', then.