MAE everyone.
Already Tuesday here in the South Pole. Cold but sunny. We just don’t do seasons well down here – have our own special weather patterns (or lack of them). Feeling very sad for our friends across the Tasman where there are awful bush fires and destruction. Its very weird to have these starting so early in summer.
Hope you all had a great weekend but so far not many posting about it! In fact not a lot of posts lately and so I want to throw out some thoughts. Mick posed similar questions some months back and we decided to soldier on – but here goes.
We don’t get that many posting on this daily Abs thread but we do get quite a few viewers. I guess all the threads on MWO are like that. Its not a competition but it might be cool to have some more posters – at least from time to time. Maybe this is not an issue – after all – this is a particular thread and there lots of such targeted ones on MWO. And if its helping us – that's good, isn’t it? That's the point – it helps us to keep sober and we are serious, as we say about this. here’s some thoughts to get the ball rolling =
1. any thoughts on why we have some thin pickings on our posts?
2. are there just too many threads on MWO – other abstinent ones that people are posting and pouring their energies into instead of this one? Does that matter? Or does it spread us thin?
3. Are we boring (not much we can do about that – as we are what we are)?
4. Maybe our age group is too self-selective (ie we are kind of middle-aged (pardon Bear as you are a youngster)
5. Does the time zone thing confuse people- still? The problem from my point of view (and the people in upside-down-land) – is that if we post on the end of the daily thread – it gets lost – no one usually responds (and that's sort of pointless after a while). It also makes sense from my point of view to start (if possible) with the new day.
6. Are we too exclusive? We say we take Abs seriously – and we do – but does that scare people off? I think we try to be inclusive and supportive – but I guess we get to a point where we have to keep to what we have committed ourselves to - sobriety and not moderation.
Share your thoughts please and be honest. We don’t have rules here except not to be rude etc. I know we have had these lulls in posting before - and also some people are busy providing support on other threads and through PMs – to those who are trying to quit.
We are also busy people - thats surely one of the bonuses of being sober - and we have full lives off the internet.
Have a great day/evening all and see you on this thread when you have read it.
Yes for the sober revolution!!!!
Already Tuesday here in the South Pole. Cold but sunny. We just don’t do seasons well down here – have our own special weather patterns (or lack of them). Feeling very sad for our friends across the Tasman where there are awful bush fires and destruction. Its very weird to have these starting so early in summer.
Hope you all had a great weekend but so far not many posting about it! In fact not a lot of posts lately and so I want to throw out some thoughts. Mick posed similar questions some months back and we decided to soldier on – but here goes.
We don’t get that many posting on this daily Abs thread but we do get quite a few viewers. I guess all the threads on MWO are like that. Its not a competition but it might be cool to have some more posters – at least from time to time. Maybe this is not an issue – after all – this is a particular thread and there lots of such targeted ones on MWO. And if its helping us – that's good, isn’t it? That's the point – it helps us to keep sober and we are serious, as we say about this. here’s some thoughts to get the ball rolling =
1. any thoughts on why we have some thin pickings on our posts?
2. are there just too many threads on MWO – other abstinent ones that people are posting and pouring their energies into instead of this one? Does that matter? Or does it spread us thin?
3. Are we boring (not much we can do about that – as we are what we are)?
4. Maybe our age group is too self-selective (ie we are kind of middle-aged (pardon Bear as you are a youngster)
5. Does the time zone thing confuse people- still? The problem from my point of view (and the people in upside-down-land) – is that if we post on the end of the daily thread – it gets lost – no one usually responds (and that's sort of pointless after a while). It also makes sense from my point of view to start (if possible) with the new day.
6. Are we too exclusive? We say we take Abs seriously – and we do – but does that scare people off? I think we try to be inclusive and supportive – but I guess we get to a point where we have to keep to what we have committed ourselves to - sobriety and not moderation.
Share your thoughts please and be honest. We don’t have rules here except not to be rude etc. I know we have had these lulls in posting before - and also some people are busy providing support on other threads and through PMs – to those who are trying to quit.
We are also busy people - thats surely one of the bonuses of being sober - and we have full lives off the internet.
Have a great day/evening all and see you on this thread when you have read it.
Yes for the sober revolution!!!!
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