Oh I wasn’t deriding you...
I just didn’t feel safe without the post...
Cats all runnin’ ‘bout around here all willy-nilly w/out a thread nanny or two..
and I have to say...yesterday I was watching the trial and watching the post/posting....then I had to leave and go where I couldn’t see the trial and was depending on FR thread...and wow, what a difference a little perspective makes...all the ridiculous posts didn’t bother me before, but when I was wanting to know what was happening, I was a wee bit frustrated at difficulty of getting good content here. Twitter feed was more informative... Talk about taking a walk in someone else’s shoes...
I think we must be aware that while the trial is in session, there are probably only a few posters that are ‘current’ on the thread.
Many others are trying to catch up, or locked in a debate over an issue with another poster. Heck, yesterday the LIVE THREAD was increasing in size by 100 posts every minute.
All of us are trying to watch the trial, listen to the trial, while reading the new posts, and trying to respond to posts from others.
Some are at work, some are at home but have duties there too.
Everyone is multi-tasking, very few can keep up with it all.
So... if you ‘jump’ in to the thread, and then expect those who are probably ‘multi-tasking’ more than anyone else to immediately respond to just YOUR post, I’d say you are expecting a miracle and will be disappointed.
Usually there are other Zimmerman threads on FR during the LIVE thread, and sometimes I find it is easier to have a ‘conversation’ on them.
On the LIVE THREAD, like this, I try to just post ‘events’ as I see them, or make a few sarcastic comments. Occasionally I can enjoin a single poster in a debate about an ‘issue’, but I don’t expect immediate answers.
The only reason I had the time to spew this long explanation is because the court isn’t in session, and I’ve got to be gone for a few hours soon.
Anyway... food for thought.