How do you feel when your forum post crashes and burns?

Have you ever thought that you had something really good to talk about on the forums and get really excited to post about it only to have no one else care about it and the only thing you can do is let is sink lower and lower til there is no chance in hell that anyone will see it.  It happened to me quite a few times mostly on the Gamespot forums, usually because their responses consisted of LOl u r Dum and that's it.

But what about you guys?  Do you have any experiences like this?  Did it make you feel like shit or did you not care?

I dunno, I've only posted a few topics(actually I think just one...) on the forums and they've been average as far as post counts.

In other forums, I've posted something that has been completely ignored, but it doesn't have any effect on me. Either my question/comment was too vague or it's something that a minortiy would find interesting. For instance, I recall making a topic on Drakengard 2 on one of the forums I visit. I only got a handfull of replies, and most of them were single lined 'it was good' or 'it was bad' etc.

I guess its kinda like reading the back cover of a book which usually has a summary or preview; if you like what you read you'll delve deeper into it and try reading the whole book and form an opinion about it, if not, it will just stay on the shelf.

-hiro

"I dunno, I've only posted a few topics(actually I think just one...) on the forums and they've been average as far as post counts.

In other forums, I've posted something that has been completely ignored, but it doesn't have any effect on me. Either my question/comment was too vague or it's something that a minortiy would find interesting. For instance, I recall making a topic on Drakengard 2 on one of the forums I visit. I only got a handfull of replies, and most of them were single lined 'it was good' or 'it was bad' etc.

I guess its kinda like reading the back cover of a book which usually has a summary or preview; if you like what you read you'll delve deeper into it and try reading the whole book and form an opinion about it, if not, it will just stay on the shelf.

-hiro"

That says something about the poster I guess.

Then again, half baked opinions sometimes rival those of fully thought out and articulate ones. Of course 90% of the time the articulate ones take home the controller.

... controller? where'd that come from? -_-

-hiro

Its only happened once to me and i just got my keyboard and smacked it against the chair, screaming 'fuck you gamespot!'.

Ya that has happened to me on a few occasions on this site,but it's not a big deal i don;t think,considering i did post at 2 in the morning one of the times:P

Only thing i regret ever saying on any type of forums was a topic i made about 6 years ago when i was about 13, at the time i was into country and thought it would be a cool idea to make a topic about it.

Well then LOls and u R dumzzz.....


jk, jk.

I actually don't mind it as much when it turns out I'm the only person interested, but I hate it when I post a news story first (a bit late in the night/early morning), then when I go back later to see how my thread is doing, somebody else posted the exact same story but since they posted it later in the morning they get all the hits and people all talk on that thread and not mine's even though I posted it first. At that point you can't be a jerk and say well close the thread down because I was here first BS. Almost makes me not want to post interesting stories that I know others will eventually find.

I have only posted a thread a few times, usually because I dont have much worth saying so I usually stick to contributing to existing threads. None of the ones I have posted have attracted more then a handful of responses and it does bother me that much at all. Move on and talk about something else. Theres always something to look at here. In any case they get more attention then my every day blogs.

In you rown case though, just keep posting some interesting threads with interesting points and I am sure it will attract plenty of conversation. 

You idiots, you weren't supposed to reply to this post. :p

I guess sometimes I don't get as much feedback on my blogs as much as I would like, but I guess thats just me being a bit narcissistic! :D

I have 6,000 points and less than 400 posts, so I'm more concerned with getting points and wiki contributions than posting every single day

I usually post at 3 am, EST. and usually about random questions I could probably find a answer to by using Google.  So I'm pretty used to being rejected. 

Doesn't  mean one shouldn't  stop posting.  Shit, I post just for the sake of posting and getting something off my chest.  Thats what blogs are for, getting those Philly steamers off yourself and into the faces of others. 

are you from Philly soothsayer or is just Will Smith from Philly?

I had that problem at Gamespot, but not here so far.

As far as I know, I've made at least one thread which sank without a trace, other than that, i'm doing fine.