Should I Take a Break From Posting?

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My user title says it all. The visitor messaging and private messaging is really what keeps me here. I love this place, but posting anymore seems like a chore. I feel like I should take a break and evaluate whether I should reconsider being on here daily. So, what do YOU think I should do? In a limited role on here I would still write my GT2 story, and try to contribute to this forum. But I really don't know what to decide to do.
 
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Noob616
It's the internet. You're over thinking this.
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This lol. It's ok if you don't feel like posting. Just try to get your NFL picks in every week. ;)
 
Noob616
It's the internet. You're over thinking this.
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This. However I would have worded it differently. It's okay to come and go. None of us clock on and off at set hours. We are here because we want to be. If you feel that you are not getting the enjoyment of being somewhere and if you are not required to (ie. Work, family gathering, chick flick), then you shouldn't feel that you are obligated to. You will only start resenting everyone and everything. Take a break, you might soon find that you will have GTP withdrawals. (PS.It starts with the shakes :nervous:).
 
I thought it started with the letter I. :lol:

Wait something's happening...

:nervous:


...And so it begins!
 
Posting is not a requirement for membership, however if posting is a chore, it sounds like you do need a break.
 
If coming to post here is more effort than you'd like to put in and you are simply posting because you feel it's necessary then yes, take a rest.

If however posting here fills up otherwise boring gaps in your day, like it does mine, then stay.

If it feel forced take a few weeks break and when you come back you'll have plenty of worthwhile things to post about.
 
Omnis
This lol. It's ok if you don't feel like posting. Just try to get your NFL picks in every week. ;)
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shem
If coming to post here is more effort than you'd like to put in and you are simply posting because you feel it's necessary then yes, take a rest.
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This, take a rest for a couple weeks and if posting still fells a like chore after that time, maybe just limit yourself to only continuing your GT2 story and nothing else.
 
I would say I actively browse GTP's Rumble strip at least 5 - 6 times a week pretty consistently for the past 8yrs, however my posting activity goes in waves.

Some months I just seem to have plenty to say and post in a fair few topics, conversations, other times I'm happy to just read the threads and feel no need to post.

Just because you have read a thread doesn't mean you need to post. So if posting is a chore but you still enjoy popping in and having a read then don't stop coming. Otherwise if you really don't care about reading either, then just do what you want. Naturally once you feel like posting you will be compelled to come back.
 
Omnis
*Gets out banhammer* yes
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Seriously though this is a place of enjoyment if you feel its like a chore then have a break, if not keep posting.
 
Omnis
This lol. It's ok if you don't feel like posting. Just try to get your NFL picks in every week. ;)
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Hey, 2 out of 2. Accuracy defies logic, though I should've posted in the picks thread :ouch:. There's always next week.
 
Posting messages on here isn't necessarily a mandatory thing just because you're registered as a membership of the site, you're allowed to visit GTP forums whenever you want to - still more making posts until you get banned.

If you still wish to have contacts with other visitors around the spots then you can keep posting as you did, but if posting on the forum is a daily chore so that it wears you out, then take a short break apart from here.
 
If you feel compelled to make a topic such as this, and say that posting feels like a chore... Well, I really don't see the value for discussion here. You pretty much answered your own question.
 
You could try wearing boxing gloves as much as possible. Well, it might help and - I can assure you - it wouldn't look odd at all. :dopey:
 
Posting should feel like a chore. You just post if you 'feel like it'.
 
In no way are you obliged to be here, only post here if you want too, if you don't want to then don't do it, simples.
 
Just take a break from GTP. Do other things. When you feel yourself wanting to come back, come back.
 
Well, if you still want to browse GTP, and see something interesting/questionable or something, then make a post if you want. If you are in an online race league or something then make a post once every week or so in that thread so they know what's happening with your races and stuff. It's all up to you, and yes you are overthinking this.
 
I think the fact that this is what you're doing with your posts suggest that you need a break. ;)
 
I don't think you really need a break so much as a re-evaluation of your posting strategy. I used to do what you do, just post because I felt obligated to, and I eventually got an infraction for it. Nowadays, 80% or more of my time here at GTP is spent just perusing the forums and threads, not making a single post. When I feel like I have something to say and/or to add to the discussion, I post. You shouldn't feel like you NEED to post, just whenever you feel like it, as others have said. You won't get banned for not posting for too long :P

Try this: continue what you've been doing, but before you make a post, ask yourself if you really want to make that post or if you're doing it just for the sake of posting. After a few weeks of this, you probably won't need the checklist anymore and will just be used to posting at your leisure. 👍
 
Just don't post if you think that your post is not going to be useful to anyone reading it.
 
This is slightly off topic, but do any of you think I need a break? I've been considering it for quite some time.
 
Driving Park
I don't think you really need a break so much as a re-evaluation of your posting strategy. I used to do what you do, just post because I felt obligated to, and I eventually got an infraction for it. Nowadays, 80% or more of my time here at GTP is spent just perusing the forums and threads, not making a single post. When I feel like I have something to say and/or to add to the discussion, I post. You shouldn't feel like you NEED to post, just whenever you feel like it, as others have said. You won't get banned for not posting for too long :P

Try this: continue what you've been doing, but before you make a post, ask yourself if you really want to make that post or if you're doing it just for the sake of posting. After a few weeks of this, you probably won't need the checklist anymore and will just be used to posting at your leisure. 👍
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Jai
This is slightly off topic, but do any of you think I need a break? I've been considering it for quite some time.
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Listen to Driving Park.
 
Jai
This is slightly off topic, but do any of you think I need a break? I've been considering it for quite some time.
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doesn't that question sound....a bit ridiculous? could ask OP the same thing
 
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Thank you Driving Park. You know the right things to say.
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There you go, Alex - that puts it in a a nutshell. Let me add, though, that not posting at GTPlanet does'nt mean that one may not be feeding their hunger for worldwide attention elsewhere. Some people post all day - at several sites simultaneously. Social media can be addictive - and also dangerous - as what happened to the Mexicans hung off a bridge recently demonstrates.
There are those who have Facebook, Twitter, eBay, et al, booted up all day and that can be mentally carcinogenic, if not socially problematic.
I would say you don't really overpost (not here, anyway) but how about elsewhere?
I, myself, try to keep my fingers off the Alphabet, unless I have something to say that no one else has said - though I find it hard not express myself sometimes. My experience has been that eventually someone gets around to saying what I wanted to say anyway.
This doesn't mean you should hold back on immediately bringing something to the table of discussion, if you think you have an unique point that would help.
I have learned (and still learning) that we have 2 ears, and 2 eyes - but only one tongue - so therefore (IRL) to listen and look twice as much as I speak.

Now, there are those that think post counts are like votes - but not so. While posting also does drive up advertising traffic (which no doubt underscores the motives of the owners/administrators of any site) a well-laid out, provocatively informative or entertaining thread does much more to help the popularity of the site as well as getting you the right type of attention.

Hope that helps balance your thoughts - excuse any malformation of my post as this is off my iPhone while I'm on the run lol as usual!

Hugs . . . :)
 
Lol, from the title, I thought this was a joke.....a multipage serious discussion......didn't see that coming.

Yup, Driving Park called it I'd say.
 
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