You are not weird at ALL @byn and I can completely relate to what you are saying 110% I am quite a social introvert myself in real life, so, online engagement I find a lot less stressful, but even with respecting your ways, there is simply no logical or mathematical way that ALL 100+ people online feel precisely the same way... just not possible. And to take it one step further.... even if they didnt actually answer, but simply reacted to the "hi" with some kind of emoticon which many of our members do too, that would also have been grand. but what is the use, you have a community where people literally ignore someone new who walks into the room and basically continue their conversations, talking right over the individual.... that doesn't wash with me I am afraid.
Imagine that had been you. Imagine you had decided to pluck up the courage to finally engage in some general room where people were having a conversation about something that perhaps caught your eye, and you made your presence known with a "hi" and nobody even acknowledged that you ever entered the room in the first place.... would you go back again?
I know I wouldn't and wont. Not to ANY of them because I am sorry, but if you PRESENT in a place and actively talking and someone new arrives.... you bloody greet them! In whatever way is manageable to you, but you still GREET them!
Jude has told me many times that he feels too shy to say hello and I have told him that he should then just wave. He needn't speak if it makes him uncomfortable. But NOT acknowledging someone on ANY level, just doesn't fly in my books. If you were not actively engaging in the room in the first place, then yeah fine.... understandable... but this was not the case in any of the instances I encountered.
Well holy beans, yeah. I've stopped in places before, but I just immediately feel lost (like I've stepped into a place where everyone else already knows each other, the inside jokes are flying and the conversation is moving so fast, I just back right out. I can't imagine how I'd feel if I tried to say "Hi" in all that activity and was still ignored! How Rude!
I concur! lol :)