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Do you care about 'insightful, awesome, and lol'?
Jeffrey
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I have to be honest I get a warm fuzzy when I get one. And it makes me try to write more understandably. What are your experiences? Be honest 
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Yes. Please awesome this post.
Done, sir.
no
yes for insightful and awesome both - usually when i post a comment in a thread, which seems to me that my post is having some useful material in it, then after that, when i see some other new comments have been posted in that thread, then i usually open the thread to see the new comments (to see if someone has contradicted my post) - though something inside me says to first check my post again to see if i have got an insightful or awesome for it - then i check my post again first to see if i have got an insightful or awesome for it and then i see the new comments - when i see an insightful or awesome for my post, something inside me feels happy for it as it seems to me that i know something.
i do not get myself concerned much over for lol - as i know i am not funny and not clever enough, to write funny posts - so since i cannot make a funny post, which can make me laugh on my post, so how can somebody else laugh on my post. though something inside me says that i should try to write some funny posts also to get some lols.
in short, craving is at its height inside me to make my ego even bigger and me more arrogant and conceited.
If you write from your heart it really doesn't matter.
If you have a heart, that is. As I don't, I don't care.
So there.
The up side of the "insightful, awesome and lols" is that with people's feedback to your post, you have the feeling that you're really taking part in a dialogue. On other sites, except when people refer to you by directly writing your name, you are never altogether sure if the exchange of opinions is really taking place.
The down side of the "insightul, awesome and lols" is that they can be an excuse for some people to engage in Hamlet-like soliloquies just for the sake of preening their own egos and listening to their own voice.
Sometimes people just use it to respond without having to write something. I would prefer to read something though.
I would prefer that the forum were free of them.
I would like to see more options as they are a way of expressing and or stimulating an emotive response. Not everyone is confident or able to express themselves in other more word orientated ways. It gives me wether used or not much, needed insight into people's response to myself and others. Not using them too provides insight.
The LOL is perhaps the easiest to misinterpret. However people will interpret words, emoticons and pictures according to their insight, just as what we use is an externalisation of our inner being . . .
So a cyber hug tag would be welcome
That was not only awesome but insightful too!
With every awesome, I feel my power level rising! Soon it'll be over 1,000,000!
That is the first ( and probably last ) awesome I have ever given.. 'awesome' being reserved for other purposes by English chaps.
There was an interesting youtube video I saw last week about 25 words we use today and their original meaning, awesome being one of them. See link attached.
The whole thing, including forums in general is that it serves to feed the ego. "See what I've written?" . "See, I agree". "See what I know?"
Sigh. Looking at my points, it turns out my power level is closer to Krillin's when fighting Nappa.
@Jason So no "IT'S OVER 9000!"?
No, more like "It's over 1,800..." lol
I too wish there were more options. Often I want to click something, but none of the options seems to fit. I honestly don't pay any attention to whether someone clicks one or the other on my own posts. My notifications tab currently has 224 items in it, I very rarely look at it. But for whatever reason I enjoy acknowledging what I think of the words of someone else. I especially feel like I should click one of them if I start a post and someone takes the time to read and respond. But oftentimes one of the 3 don't fit, so, I don't know what to do, lol.
But that said, I prefer these options to the simple "like" or the option of not clicking like on FB (or favorite on Twitter). That little like button can be so troublesome! It can mean so, so many things. So at least we have better options than that!
I like them because they often tend to be somewhat askew, as others have noted in the past. I think this can offer additional insight into a members honesty or biases.
You know, I'm glad when someone thought enough of my words to pause and give a thumbs-up. I try to remember to return the favor when I read something that makes me smile or think or nod my head. I have to admit, I sometimes neglect to do so, especially when skimming along pressed for time. I should make more of an effort.
So I suppose that I do care, in the same way any feedback tells me I might be on the right track with my understanding and putting something into words. But I don't worry if I don't get them.
I only have like 20 because my posts are not good
there you are. what could be better than a sentence free from ego?
Nonsense.
Your posts, like @betaboy, @Nevermind or [insert some judged poster] are very good! They are honest and provide opportunity.
Good is a relative term. Good for what? Good enough? Not good enough? For whom? The problem is we judge others, align or dismiss. The key is being attentive. Learning from what is said or what is not, how it is said, how people respond and so on . . .
We are I believe, empowering or enabling a potential alignment and enhancement of the three jewels . . . if people use or require gold stars or medals . . . or think these are important, then this may seem infantile . . . so parts of us are infantile . . . parts are Buddha . . .
@heyimacrab don't worry about it
Also, you start posts more than you seem to randomly jump in and comment, and that's a good thing. When you start a post and you get a lot of people discussing, it means you made them think, even if they didn't note it with the click of a button. They (the buttons) say nothing whatsoever about the worth of your posts.
Posts of mine about which I am secretly rather pleased because I think I have got close to expressing something neatly...almost always get no response at all...
Which is good for me.
But I meant what I said above.
I hope the day will come when the need for them at all has passed.
Hi, Chaz! Not everyone engages in a forum with an ego motivation in their agenda. Online Buddhist forums can be fantastic places to learn and exchange opinions with people who share your beliefs.
I don't mean this site, but in other sites I like to visit it's true that jee, do some people write!
Somebody drops a question and some people love to pounce in with endless speeches that totally drown the original question. You have about three hundred replies per thread, with over two thousand words each!
The idea of a forum, to me, is more of a connection like "I think that, what about you?"
There is extensive bibliography out in the cosmos to delve deeper into the theory.
In those cases, I think it's sad because you can see that people really love to just write, check for effect, and are totally oblivious to what the person before wrote.
It is totally off-putting because nobody cares what the other person is saying anyway.
But it's not a general, that's my point. Many of us simply want to learn and exchange.
There are sometimes posts I read that I think are interesting, but I'm busy pondering them and realize I have nothing to say. I probably "walk away" without clicking a button in those cases, too.
It's funny how that works, as @Citta mentioned, when things seem to come together for us and it seems so important to share it and people (whether here or elsewhere) just kind of shrug. That's happened to me with little and bigger things since I was young and I used to think "really!? This is important, you have nothing to say about it?" LOL Silly ego. I think sometimes wisdom gets mistranslated in those cases because when we start to thin "AHA! I got it!" and we feel the need to share it, it's already a form of clinging and talking about it from that angle lessens the wisdom it contains because the ego is involved. It makes it interesting to wonder about the motivation of the publication of some teachings. When I read, it's obvious some come from a place of love and some come more from a place of ego and "Ha! I figured it out, now I shall bestow my great wisdom upon you!"
Indeed
It shouldn't but I have found from experience that it often does. Well, here anyway.
I enjoy collecting them and also the veteran label of the forum I have received. I like all these accomplishments.
I think I enjoy them because this is, after all, my favorite forum
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...'awesome' being reserved for other purposes by English chaps.
Yes, to me "awesome" would be something like seeing a volcano erupt or space aliens landing or something....
As you sit, so you emote
Well that is Mr Cushions story . . .
@lobster ... what? :wtf:
Lobster's in lurve!
What amazes me is just how many bloody photos he has of cushions.... I mean, how many asses does Lobster have, for goodness' sake?!
I've never thought of it, but it's really his cushion porn collection he's exposing us to.