Originally Posted by
40plusnewbie
Actually it's more like 2 people showing up to a party that has been going on for years, and one of them see's a bunch of other people greeting them so he greets the person as well.
I often greet people who show up at parties after I do, regardless of if I am the host or even know the host. It's considererd polite social behavior. And until you pointed it out it in this thread it has never even crossed my mind that anyone would ever taken into consideration the order of arrival of guests greeting each other.
I mean if someone is going into old threads and going out of their way to greet everyone when they are new and they are hitting every thread burried back 3 and 4 pages that would seem weird to me. But other than that I find it strange that someone would care or notice or pay attention to the order of arrival of people welcoming one another either live or on the internet in threads designed to introduce yourself to people.
I'm very new. I have welcomed about 10 people, give or take. I only did it after seeing that you were doing it in each and every thread. Being new and figuring you were modling good behavior, I copied your behavior a bit. I certainly didn't want to go down row after row of threads to do it though. And I certainly didn't want to do it in every thread, even if they were right at the top. That would seem weird to me.
In my case I could care less about the number of my posts. I'm just trying to get along here. I'm 41 years old and it would seem bizarre to me to open a thread that is at the top, or close to it, and pay attention to the date the person registered here. I find it bizarre that you even noticed this or tracked it.