Non-turtle talkin' users
 

I get people who stick to general discussion as they've been here for years & found their cliques in there or whatever, sure (Like the PA tech guys & others). But I've noticed a good chunk of users who join the boards & then exclusively post in the non-TMNT sections, never ever posting about the turtles. What's that all about? There's Facebook & tens of other social networks where your actual friends prolly are. Why join a TMNT forum only to not talk about TMNT? I don't get it. It'd be like going to a restaurant, sitting down for 2 hours, & leaving, having never so much as drank a glass of water. Why bother?

I have to admit, I've noticed myself posting more in the non tmnt sections. Idk though. I try and swing by threads that I can say something about, but a lot of times, there's threads that don't interest me in the turtle section. I still try and hit the turtle threads though.

I don't get it either. *shrugs* As long as they're polite, it doesn't majorly bother me - I just don't really understand it.

Maybe people here are just more fun to talk to? 8)

I go through patches where I post less in the Turtles threads but it all depends on what's going on: sometimes it's a bit of a slow period and there's not much Turtles discussion going on. End of the day though, I'm primarily here for the Turtleage.

I'm a little too opinionated to talk about Ninja Turtles too much with people so I try to keep a lid on it so people's feelings don't get hurt.

Maybe they're just casual TMNT fans who don't really know what else to say about the franchise that us hard core fans haven't already brought up time and time again, so they just end up hanging out here. This place can be intimidating at times, especially for newbies.

Sometimes I have to recharge when it comes to fandom speak. Sometimes I don't have a lot to say. Sometimes I have too much to say.

And sometimes I just don't think the board wants to hear about Leatherhead/Donatello.

My only guess is some people don't read comics at all and aren't following the Nick cartoon either...so they really have nothing to talk about.

I feel that way about my fan site at times. I remember back in the good old days when there were tons of fan sites out there, but thanks to companies like Yahoo! and AOL closing their free web service most of those awesome sites have gone the way of the dodo bird!

Most of you seem to think I'm asking why y'all post here or favor this section, & that's totally not it. I wanna know why there are people who have literally never posted anything outside of this section & joined only to post here in non-TMNT discussion.

I dunno, CyberCubed and I both pretty much hit the nail on the head with our hypothesis. Of course if you still have me on your ignore list, you're probably not reading this.

Get over iiiiiiiiit.

That, combined with Tumblr becoming really popular, kind of forced the fan site that lots of people used to have into obscurity for the most part. There aren't as many of them around, and it's a shame, because they were so useful. I used to run one of those type of sites myself but I couldn't afford it so I closed it down back in... 2010-2011. Had it since '05, so it was quite a loss.

Oh I know you were asking about those kind of people, but since some were using it to talk about why they weren't posting in the TMNT sections as much, I thought I'd chime in too.

Yea, okay that quip was definitely in bad taste, but my point still stands that a couple of us have already stated the obvious on the subject of this thread.

I haven't seen any users who ONLY post here, but I'd assume that they're drawn in by friends. Strange.

Who knows... maybe they're testing the waters to see where the majority of the Drome's interests and popular viewpoints are. For example in the TV and Movies section, noticing that a significant amount of TMNT fans are pro-wrestling fans, etc.

As for what they would do with that information or interaction, it could range from mere individual curiosity (how other fandoms are received in a TMNT forum) to demographic research for sociology studies or for companies.

...Just a thought. **shrug**

Well, I fit into this category of a casual TMNT fan of, just, the movies and toys...those are the two things that I've admired about the franchise. I'll pop into those sections of the forums, often. I'm not into discussing theories of the TMNT universe. I, just, like to collect some of the toys and art, as with, my admiration of the first two movies of the franchise because of the kung-fu-like cinematography (where, there are no guns or CGI-type fighting, but, actual stunts like a Jackie Chan movie). But, there's, only, so much I could say about the two films.

The reason I joined the forum is because of the hype the new movie and tv shows brought, which, as a result, brought out many art exhibits and toys for me to check out. So, I'll get my news on such things from these forums and, because I've been raised all over the world, I take interest in the general views of anything, from anyone, to continue my understanding of the world...so, I'll check these sides of the forum, after I've caught up on TMNT things that interest me in these forums.

Also, there's over seven billion people in this world, so, your understanding of humanity shouldn't be easily predictable. I find it amazing and I encourage such unpredictability, it makes the world less boring, to me...kinda encourages me to live longer, to see how a lot of these conflicts, as a result from diversity, plays out.

Maybe, I'm just not raised to be deep-rooted into a community because of the consistency of my life's travels. Which might be a bad thing because I'll never experience the hardships the community has gone through, so, I'll never identify as part of the community in such a deep level. But, I don't think people should be treated as such, they should be allowed into a community, free of such judgements. Otherwise, it's a hate group; which, I haven't experienced such a thing, in this community, btw. A lot of you are awesome, I'm just sorry I don't keep up and follow through with dialogue that I start because I get busy and forget...sorry, if I've left anyone hanging, like that.

The point also stands that Powder's told you to leave him alone on numerous occasions. Quit crawling up his ass in the threads and making passive-aggressive little comments. People here are sick to death of reading them - it's really old and it's not winning you any points. If you're that fixated over the fact that someone on the internet doesn't like you, then you really need to get help. LET. IT. GO.

I admit I'm a bit baffled by this as well, but maybe some people just don't want to talk about TMNT and would rather just hang out in the general sections of the board. I know that I'm always going to join in on the TMNT discussions because that's why I signed up for this site in the first place. But maybe other people are too shy to do that yet, or they haven't been following certain types of TMNT fandoms, so they don't want to discuss it just yet. That's the way I feel about it.

Good thread Powder, I think about this as well. I guess some people just test the waters in these sections, as said above. Perhaps they want to develop a rapport with others before posting in the most important sections i.e. the turtles sections.

I know you said you don't mean people who are very active here and slightly less so in the turtles section, but I've also been aware recently that I've been more active here than in the turtles section. Up to a few weeks ago I spent far more time there. But my reasoning for that is that I've been taking some time away from the TMNT to recharge (finished up rewatches of 2k3 and FW not long ago, as well as looking at Mirage again) and I've been more focused on academia and general life debates. That's probably why I've been more active in here than there as of these last few weeks. But that would never ever be a long-term thing for me, as I'm here for the boys (that sounds gay, doesn't it?)

I dunno. Maybe they do when they first get here but since they only have a fond appreciation of the franchise as opposed to really watching the new movie, the toon or the comics they find not much to talk about so yeah. Everything else. Just speculation though.