Does anybody else check the "alert" threads

[eyepaddle]

and often wonder what in the hell caused somebody to hit alert?

Like the thread about hobbies.....it's all fun, yet there are the flames--what's up with THAT?

:shrug:

[JimmyJazz]

1. The flames appear once 50 posts have been made.

It has nothing to do with the number of alerts. :)

[eyepaddle]

2. Ah, NOW I get it,

Well, I feel a little silly, but I had been wondering! Thanx :)

[JimmyJazz]

3. It's okay. It took me a while to understand

what kicking a thread did! :dunce:

[eyepaddle]

4. LOL

It took me awhile on that one too!

And as long as we're at it, I hadn't had the foggiest clue what "LOL" meant until I asked a much younger friend from a class I was taking about two years ago.

I still scratch my head at some of the internet shorthand sometimes...B-)

[Goathead]

5. I had the damnedest time with "n/t and "eom"

I didn't know what the hell it was and I was too afraid to ask.

[eyepaddle]

6. eom that one had me totally flummoxed for EVER

I can't remeber if I broke down and asked--or if I "overheard" the explanation! :dunce:

[qnr]

7. Strange, isn't it? After all, we're all here to share information, so why

be afraid to ask?

Now, in some forums there are FAQs that cover things like that, and/or the whole forum is searchable without contributing - in instances like that, it's best to do a search first.

[eyepaddle]

8. With "eom" it wasn't fear--it was the challenge!

Once my friend hipped me to LOL (which by the way was looooonnnng before I was a member of any forum) I started to suss out a bunch of the others. That damned End Of Message was like my own personal white whale, I was compelled. At some point you have to accept reality though!

[qnr]

9. heheh I can picture it. n/t

[Midnight Rambler]

10. I still don't know what "eom" means

And I'm not too ashamed to ask. So, anyone, what does "eom" mean?

[katinmn]

11. end of message

that was the last acronym I figured out, too

[Lone Pawn]

12. End of Message.

It should always be in the Subject, never the body--it's a warning that means 'there's no body message, so don't click on here and be disappointed.' Putting it in the body is useless.

[Midnight Rambler]

13. Ahh...

Muchas Gracias, Katinmn and Lone Pawn

[libodem]

14. Okay i have to ask but was too scared

what is the n/t and how and what is kicking a thread and I also see LITHOP or some thing like it . Help me out and don't tell anyone how dumb I am. :)

[tammywammy]

23. Someone posted this link

http://www.romulus2.com/articles/guides/shorthand/shorthand.shtml

It gives a lot of the internet shorthand.

Some have taken me a while to figure out too...and some I just figure I'll never know.

[libodem]

15. I was serious

[eyepaddle]

18. n/t means No Text

LIHOP is Let it Happen on Purpose (re 9/11) and kicking a thread just moves it to the top the screen so people don't forget about it.

Sorry it took so long to respond--I hadn't seen this thread come back up! :hi:

[RagingInMiami]

16. Here is a question maybe you can answer

What is the symbolism behind the blue paper clip?

[eyepaddle]

17. There was a decent sized thread about it before the election

in WWII the occupied Norwegians wore blue paper clips on their lapels to symbolize there resistance to the Nazis. I can't remember offhand if they were protesting ther homegrown traitor Quisling--or if they waited until the Germans had to take over directly to bust out the paperclips.

I just like the symbolism of the quiet unrelenting protest.

[RagingInMiami]

19. Finally

I asked once or twice before, but nobody answered. I joined DU after the election so I missed that thread, but back in November, there were references to it every once in a while, but when I asked what it meant, the thread would just die.

[eyepaddle]

20. Until tonight I thought only threads that I contributed to would die!

I thought you were around longer than I...apparently I just edged you out (started in October)

[RagingInMiami]

21. I went through a serious case of post-election depression

And DU was the only place that cheered me up, which is why I accumulated so many posts in such a short time.

[eyepaddle]

22. I think you had a lot of company in that

before the election I was a total GD DUer but I had to run to the lounge to cheer up. It took a month or two to work mysef up to debate...I just wanted light banter for a while.

[libodem]

24. Thanks so much for responding

but what is n/t? I found DU after the elections. I needed it during, to tell the truth. I just had my son build me this computer. I've been paying for the on-line hook up for years without ever going to a chat room. My 456 posts are the total number of times i ever posted. All I ever did was play solitaire. I started getting close to 5,000 consistently and figured I'd better move on. I heard about DU on some Right-winger talk radio show. I've still never started a thread. What a dork, huh.

[eyepaddle]

25. no text means there is no body of a message just like "eom"

and saves people the frustration of clicking on your message and wasting their time--epsecially if they have dial-up. Let's em know they have seen all there is.

The only other board I ost on is a whitewater paddling forum so I now where to go meet people. My 800-something is about my grand total as well.

And I've done about thirty tonight! :hi: