Kevin's Watch

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Nov 24, 2015 4:13 am

Wait, Vraith's not MIA.

Not yet anyway.

) He's around...saw him the other day...MIA people are really gone.

Like Myste

MatrixMan

Cj

Lord Mhoram

LoreMaster

The Dreaming

Iryssa

Cho

Where are you guys huh?

--A

Post by **Sorus** » Tue Nov 24, 2015 4:42 am

Then there's the ones that drift in and say they're going to post more and then wander off again.

Jenn.

Ali.

Danlo.

Luci.

...I could go on, but this is depressing.

Post by **MsMary** » Tue Nov 24, 2015 7:52 am

My daughter quit posting here several years back. Except for a couple of recent appearances to rant about The Last Chronicles.

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 4:37 am

Slackers. Traitors. Betrayers.

--A

Post by **Savor Dam** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 5:54 am

While I would not be so free in slinging around pejorative adjectives (since I live in a glass house...), there are other formerly-ubiquitous Watchers whose post productivity has fallen off.

Mea Culpa. Once upon a time, I diverted our #4 all time poster from full-immersion internet addiction. It was the work of some years to re-anchor her in RL...but it cannot be denied that her post count has diminished.

As for true MIA, my "come back!" list includes Matrixman, Loremaster, Kaydene, Lady Revel...and Fire Daughter.

Post by **Sorus** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 11:02 pm

Avatar wrote:Slackers. Traitors. Betrayers.

--A

In all fairness, I think some of them just got distracted by shiny things.

So how can we make KW shiny enough to lure people back?

I know it's not posts about post counts, or posts for the sake of posting or even (gasp) cat pics, so what do our MIAs want to talk about, and why are they no longer having those conversations here?

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Nov 26, 2015 4:36 am

*shrug* Moved on. Drifted apart. It happens. Forums are probably old tech now anyway.

It makes me feel better to rant though. Bastards.

--A

Post by **Sorus** » Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:14 pm

Nothing wrong with old tech. Sometimes it's nice to share your thoughts with people who share your interests, instead of the entire world.

Post by **ussusimiel** » Fri Nov 27, 2015 12:38 am

I guess peeps only have enough time for one thing at a time; if FB starts to take up that time (and many of the peeps that you interacted with on the Watch are your friends on FB) then there's no real point double posting stuff. I'm not a FB person. I like focused interaction rather than dispersed display. But, that certainly is leaving me in the minority these days.

I've been noticing a definite reduction in the participation rates with a good while this year (even the usually tempestuous 'Tank has been in decline), and it seems to have really hit us this month. When participation rates are higher the loss of a couple of prolific posters doesn't matter that much, but when activity is low it can cause a marked drop-off. (Where is Vraith anyway?

)

u.

Post by **Sorus** » Fri Nov 27, 2015 2:05 am

ussusimiel wrote:I guess peeps only have enough time for one thing at a time; if FB starts to take up that time (and many of the peeps that you interacted with on the Watch are your friends on FB) then there's no real point double posting stuff. I'm not a FB person. I like focused interaction rather than dispersed display. But, that certainly is leaving me in the minority these days.

I'm with you there. I am on Facebook these days because of WoW stuff and WoW friends, but I'd rather talk to them on the guild forum, though of course no one uses that anymore because of Facebook. I'm too much of a Facebook noob to know who can see what I post - and too paranoid to trust the security settings - so I assume everyone in the world can see my posts, and therefore most of my posts are cat pics and WoW stuff. Also I figure I'm going to get banned any day now for using an obviously fake name, but there's no way in hell I'm going to use my real name.

Post by **peter** » Mon Nov 30, 2015 12:28 pm

I got a really nasty pop-up virus from Facebook and had the devils own job shifting it. Also the posting there seems so.....trivial(?)..... in the main, and there is just too much contact with all the old faces of your life that you'd as often soon forget. I like the facelessness of the Watch and find the interaction here much more stimulating and challenging.

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 4:49 am

I'm not on Facebook so...

--A

Post by **Sorus** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 11:17 pm

You're lucky. SOMEONE from here thought it was acceptable to post a picture of the world's largest moth.

Not cool, Ali. Not cool.

Okay, it was sorta cool. It would've been cool if it wasn't a kite-sized moth. I'm just going to pretend it was a butterfly. It was a butterfly, wasn't it? Moths don't get that large. Except in low-budget movies. Movie prop moth, that's it.

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 4:18 am

You have a problem with moths Sorus? But not butterflies? Aren't they the same thing? They're both Lepidoptera...We used to get sparrow-sized ones down at my uncle's place.

--A

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 4:18 pm

MIA: now Mighara!

Avatar wrote:You have a problem with moths Sorus? But not butterflies? Aren't they the same thing? They're both Lepidoptera...We used to get sparrow-sized ones down at my uncle's place.

Moths are kinda weird... it's on account of the fuzziness of their antennae and their tendencies to flutter around at night near light sources, I think... pale creatures flickering in and out between light and darkness.

but when I look at one up close it's a little weird but also a little delightful...

Post by **Sorus** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:21 pm

Avatar wrote:You have a problem with moths Sorus? But not butterflies? Aren't they the same thing? They're both Lepidoptera...We used to get sparrow-sized ones down at my uncle's place.

--A

Butterflies stay outside where they belong. Their larvae don't feed on your favorite scarves. Butterflies mind their own business, fluttering from flower to flower, probably performing some useful pollination along the way. Butterflies don't lurk in your apartment, waiting for you to turn on a light so they can swoop into your face and attempt to bite off your nose.

Moths, on the other hand....

Same difference between wasps and honeybees.

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 4:48 am

They don't bite.

And the only difference between wasps and bees is the bee can only sting you once. Per bee. (African killer bees out here y'know.

)

--A

Post by **Sorus** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 11:23 pm

Avatar wrote: They don't bite. And the only difference between wasps and bees is the bee can only sting you once. Per bee. (African killer bees out here y'know. )

--A

Bees and butterflies are beneficial insects. Wasps and moths are destructive insects. Moths *may* not bite, but as I've said before, there is no evidence that any unsolved murders or other crimes were not committed by moths.

They're just that good at getting away with it.

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 4:51 am

They all form part of an interconnected system.

Speaking in very general terms, wasps do a lot of good, actually. The term "wasp" is used to describe thousands of species within the order Hymenoptera...

...As a group, wasps provide extraordinarily important ecological services, including pollination, predation, and parasitism. Put simply, without wasps we would be overrun with insect pests, and we would have no Fig Newtons.

--A

Post by **Sorus** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 9:42 pm

I don't care for Fig Newtons, or figs in general - though my anti-wasp sentiments aren't strong enough that I would deprive the rest of you.

Moths, on the other hand:

Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica is a moth from Madagascar. It was discovered in 2006 that it frequents sleeping birds at night, and drinks their tears, using a specialized, harpoon-like proboscis.

That's what they contribute to the world. Eye-stabbing and tear drinking.

Somewhere in the ether, H.P. Lovecraft is giving a knowing nod towards Mother Nature.