Stay on topic or get out. (Destiny)

by petetheduck, Sunday, August 14, 2016, 21:00 (3116 days ago) @ Ragashingo

I'd be ok with them talking about it at all. I get that I don't have control over people, but having have the responses be either people stating the obvious or asking if I was joking... not so fun when I was hoping for discussion (or heck, agreement, but it's pretty rare we all agree on anything! :p) Like I said a couple of times, I'm happy to be disagreed with. I responded at length to the two or three people who actually engaged even when they were pointing out that they thought I was wrong.

Next time I'll put some kind of note at the beginning of a serious topic like this one letting people I'm looking more for actual discussion than quick one line replies. And I'll cut out individually letting people know I was hoping for more engagement from them. :)

This is actually intended constructively, but if people aren't responding the way you want to a post, the problem probably isn't that you didn't set ground rules for the kind of responses you want.

You might need to adjust your expectations--realize that certain posts will solicit a certain response, or realize that a particular community behaves a particular way regardless of what you post.

So it might be you, or it might not be you.

But this time it's you.

:)