Losty Wrote:You know, when you walk into a room of strangers expecting conversation, it's just common courtesy to say hello and introduce yourself. If someone can't figure that out on there own that's kind of sad.
Exactly. It most of society it is considered rude to just jump in and start talking, especially with generalisations thrown in.
I've always introduced myself on forums. Even if there isn't an introduction section, I just start a thread in the subforum I'm interested in spending most of my time. Some forums are really big and you almost need to introduce yourself to the people you're likely to interact with. Get to know them/let them get to know you before you start creating heavy threads.
"Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere. And I have the further right to demand a free and unrestricted exercise of that right, and it is your duty not only to accord it, but as a community, to see I am protected in it. I trust that I am fully understood, for I mean just that, and nothing else."
— Victoria Woodhull, “And the truth shall make you free,” a speech on the principles of social freedom, 1871
— Victoria Woodhull, “And the truth shall make you free,” a speech on the principles of social freedom, 1871
