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Starting a thread and then disappearing

I've noticed this time and again. People come hear starting a thread to get some advice, then never return. What is it with this? My theory is that since a thread may not get responses right away, in this instant gratification age the person gets impatient and starts the same thread in 2 or 3 other forums(I've actually seen this) and never comes back to the Audiogon thread.

I have definitely seen that some of the members here offer excellent advice, far beyond my experience. I belong to several audio forums and have read all kinds of nonsense being presented as advice. I'm sure bad advice gets offered here too it's just that generally speaking it seems to be a cut above places like AVS.

But for the drive thru crowd if they haven't gotten a response in short order they abandon ship. I guess they end up with the advice that they deserve.
runnin
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I think, for the most part, one of two things happen. They either get the info they are looking for and just take it with no response, or they see the issue sparks a lot of debate with some of the members here and just don't want to get involved.
runnin OP
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You raise good points. I've seen debates get heated in other forums as well(human nature being what it is) and I suppose it can be off putting. But to get responses and never show up again is bad etiquette. To copy and paste the same OP on 3 forums is also poor etiquette, or so some of the forum rules would suggest. But whatever, people are going to do what they're going to do.
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b_limo
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The way I look at it is that many times, others benefit more than the m.i.a. op and also, years later, some random person will benefit from reading an archived ghread also.

Most of the time, the op has already made thier minds up and just want positive reinforcement about thier deicision. If the advice differs from what they want to do, they'll just do what they want anyways
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