WIll you vanish from Basschat?

[Twincam]

I've noticed posts from members I've never heard of in old threads and being curious clicked on there profile to find they have not been on the forum at all for a long time but had been fairly regular contributing members at one time.

I notice that other members had viewed there profile long after they had been active, so I'm guessing other people wonder why they have stopped being active too.

Of course we may never know there reasons, there could be hundreds of reasons why.

So as the title says can you envision yourself ever not bothering with bc after being a regular?

[RockfordStone]

i've left forums before after the topics and arguments become to samey and tedious. I wont be going anywhere yet, but i could leave the forum and not let it bother me

[Woodinblack]

Forums are always very like that, all forums, but especially subject forums. Some people stay, some people get fed up of the same old questions and move on.

[Coilte]

Situations change and life moves on. There are times when people may take a long break from playing. In which case there is not much point (or interest) in having a "bass chat".

[Johnm93]

All the while I find you all interesting, fun, useful and enlightening, l think I'll stay...

[JTUK]

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1453667893' post='2961626']
i've left forums before after the topics and arguments become to samey and tedious. I wont be going anywhere yet, but i could leave the forum and not let it bother me
[/quote]

Yep.... altho I couldn't say when I'll get bored here.. could be anytime.
I post less and there are only a few threads I bother with...so I can be done
with the site in 5 mins.

[ahpook]

Used to post on Harmony Central, then Ebassist and now here.

I didn't post on here for about 3 months a while back, I don't think people 'leave' as much as never come back.

All subject forums go round in circles. IME that's just the way it is.

[No lust in Jazz]

Yes - but not yet.

[tony_m]

I come on here pretty much every day, but very rarely sign in unless there's a thread I feel the need to comment on. Guess I'm predominantly a lurker...

[Cameronj279]

I like it here but I can't really say if I'll leave or not. I probably will at some point but don't really have any intention to.

I don't really contribute that much anyway if I'm honest.

[AndyTravis]

I'm on and off, joined the day my daughter was born (Six years ago?!?) and I've been very active, sometimes less so.

Depends what's going on with home and work, and if I'm skint I try to stay away.

I don't know if I'll disappear, doubt it.

[3below]

Have wondered what the 'lifetime' of forum members is, or perhaps the 1/2 life, time for posting rate to halve? I wonder if is a 'constant' over all forums.

[Happy Jack]

I may be right, I may be wrong, but
I know you're gonna miss me when I'm gone.

[alittlebitrobot]

Well, I think if I said "no", then I'd be committing to posting regularly until the day I die.
So, yeah, I probably will go quiet at some point, but I'm such a lurker anyway it'll go unnoticed.

[JapanAxe]

On a couple of other forums I have gone from regular to occasional poster, and that could just as easily happen here.

[wateroftyne]

I'll be here until I drop, thanks to my selective use of the 'turn off notifications ' button. I highly recommend it as a sanity preserver :-)

[Doctor J]

I've only recently started visiting here more freqiently again. There were a couple of regular posters who I just couldn't get along with and I drifted off perhaps a couple of years ago but they seem to have gone... so I love everyone again!

[roceci]

How could anyone possibly leave when there's new gear going up every day in the marketplace??

[JTUK]

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1453671473' post='2961699']
I'll be here until I drop, thanks to my selective use of the 'turn off notifications ' button. I highly recommend it as a sanity preserver :-)
[/quote]

Yes... a MUST.. and I hardly want it broadcast at work either..

[Lozz196]

Well Basschat is the only on-line thingy that I do, not on Facespace or Twatter, so I`m sticking around. I like reading about different bits of gear and how many different users put them into practice. Not that bothered about Off Topic, I look at it cos it`s there, if it wasn`t wouldn`t bother me.

[colgraff]

Death of self or loved one, poverty, homelessness? I don't want to be depressing but such things do happen and would certainly limit one's internet use.

[CHW]

I've not been here long, but several forum I've used in the past have had occasional flounces where topics boil over into personal comments and folks simply disappear.

[RhysP]

[quote name='CHW' timestamp='1453673793' post='2961733']
I've not been here long, but several forum I've used in the past have had occasional flounces where topics boil over into personal comments and folks simply disappear.
[/quote]

That sort of thing never happens on Basschat......

[neepheid]

Yup, I have taken breaks before. The worst thing you can do is announce it - like anyone gives a monkey's! I usually leave when the holier-than-thou, a P-bass is all you need, Leo got it right, one true bass brigade get so sanctimonious and preachy that it's either leave or risk a ban for what I might say.

But I usually get enticed back when the levels of BS being spouted about Gibson basses reach levels that I cannot leave unaddressed

Edited January 24, 2016 by neepheid

[Bassjon]

I used to be addicted to the therapy? Wall Of Mouths forum as they were/are my favourite band. I met lots of the fellow users in 'real life' and it was a great community. In the end though I felt like I was spending too much time posting and reading crap for the sake of it like I was addicted so I left. No regrets but now the only social media I can't escape is facebook!