I finally worked up the courage to post my first message and nobody responded to it. Do you think that the soc.singlers are conspiring to ignore me?
Alas, the contributors to soc.singlers are far too disorganized to conspire against anyone. Most messages don’t generate responses anyway, otherwise the volume of soc.singles would be even greater than it is. So, you may need to post a few messages before anyone responds to something you’ve written. If you want to maximize your chances of getting a response, try to make sure that your articles contain room for others to respond–they should invite others to add their thoughts to yours and, ideally, say something new and different that will get the attention of your readers. Sometimes messages can even be too good–they can simply cover the whole subject and do it so authoritatively that there’s nothing left for anyone to say, so not getting a response to a message doesn’t mean that people aren’t reading it or aren’t interested by it.
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