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To the regular posters here on this forum, do you know or at least feel that you have made a positive impact on someone else life by posting here?
Has what others have posted here made a positive impact on your life?
Are you just here for entertainment and don't care either way?
I'm not trying to be sardonic. It's an honest question.
Before I read anyone else's post on here. Great question!!
I used to be on another forum between marriages, which I enjoyed the banter, interaction, humor, dating opportunities it created, (not doing that again). When I found myself alone again, I searched for another couple forums. This one drew me in because of all the diversity.
I do find this forum a bit harsh. I'm guilty of throwing out a snarky comment myself and I'm trying hard not to but, I get bored reading and writing the same posts. There aren't enough threads like this that cause a person to really think.
The things we do and say can have huge impacts on people with out us even realizing it. If I have helped any one with something I've written, that's great. In all honesty, I find my mindset when I am on here as very self absorbed.
I have read some GREAT posts!, and I enjoyed the impact they have had on me. Just based on writing, there seems to be some genuinely good, sensible, and kind people on here.
To the regular posters here on this forum, do you know or at least feel that you have made a positive impact on someone else life by posting here?
By some messages I've received in the past, I think maybe in some small way I might have comforted someone. If nothing else, I've caused some to laugh and that is good enough for me as message boards go. Surely negatively affected a few.
Has what others have posted here made a positive impact on your life?
There have been a few people that have at times restored my faith in human kind around this place. I've encountered some really terrific people around these parts as well as some people that just like to hear themselves talk way too much on every pointless thread. Don't look at me.
Are you just here for entertainment and don't care either way?
Mostly,(oops that was for chat section and other cd areas in general,) but sometimes maintaining a smile when reading threads about the place undos a lot of that hope. Thankfully a break from the boards reminds where I was and that mostly it's less worst. This the place has been a great place to releave stress of the holidays, so though I've learned just how hateful so many hearts can be towards others, I've still found the place to be a place of comfort at some very trying moments.
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We've had a thread like this in the past and it's nice to read again that some have benefited But, mostly I agree with some others in saying many of the threads just appear to be something along the lines of trolling attention oes.
I try to keep in mind that 90% of forum readers never post. And some of them are probably a lot more open to new ideas than some of the people who do post.
I try hard to help them.
I am also delighted to hear that Diss has found the advice here useful!
I have learned some stuff. People here are on average far more conservative than people I encounter locally / IRL. That has been an education. It's still kind of amazing to hear how insular people are, how they have no idea that the way things are done in their hometown are not the way they are done everywhere. And of course people keep saying that to me, too.
I want so badly to help the main crew of young guys here, who are so deeply distressed. I try to figure out how I can. But they are so rigid in their self-defeating beliefs, most of them.
I don't post thinking that I'd make a huge impact. I post to help and see what the other person wants, and help to point out aspects of their lives which make them miserable so that maybe they can find their own answers.
I think it depends on a person's intentions.
I don't expect CD to offer any life-altering advices. I think everyone deep down inside knows what they want, they really want affirmation for what they believe in and want, and they want empathy.
It's a cluster of bored housewives, retired people and unemployed people exchanging reps and giving "advice".
The real use of C-D is in the state and city boards.
I'm at work. lol
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Don't look at me.
Thankfully a break from the boards reminds where I was and that mostly it's less worst. This the place has been a great place to releave stress of the holidays, so though I've learned just how hateful so many hearts can be towards others, I've still found the place to be a place of comfort at some very trying moments. 
But, mostly I agree with some others in saying many of the threads just appear to be something along the lines of trolling attention oes. 
