So is this the reason the woman saying she only has dark colors and wants to incorporate brights into her wardrobe got so few replies? I’m generally suspicious of that over-the-top soap operatic kind of angst, but hers somehow felt real to me, and I was sorry she got so little response. Maybe I was just being naive.
Of course I always report anything that makes me suspicious. Troll-feeding/giving a snappy reply might feed my ego for a second, but it also pushes the post to the top of the forum. I want to be more productive/helpful than that. Quietly reporting starts a much more effective chain of events which can remove dross from the forum, so we don’t have a bunch of fake posts with snappy comebacks clogging up the works.
I do think it’s possible to be overly protective, which is probably what’s going on with the person who periodically messages me to say stop talking, and not to post anything on threads between her and her (undefined) friends. I don’t post on her threads any more, which is a shame because we think really differently, so her posts are often challenging for me—I enjoy learning from others. But I ignore her requests to stay away from the whole group of friends, because I don’t know who she’s talking about and because I don’t think that kind of closed off hive is the purpose of the forum.
Jess, lol. I’m glad you’re here, and often find your posts to be a breath of fresh air.
ETA oh yeah—Carla’s original point. I just went and clicked on “Euro chic” in my profile. I still don’t see it, but enough other people have said that’s me that I believe you. I also added a couple of comments. I love doing archival research and tracing the development of things, so I’ve set up my style statement to make that possible. Instead of deleting the old, I put dates on entries, so it’s possible to trace the whole thing. So far there isn’t anything “past” that I violently disagree with anyway.
