Just me or are the boards quieter?

last week was quiet. I refresh a few times a day and there was definitely less traffic, which prompted me to post less in the feedback loop that is the interwebz.
 
No, its me. I started out around 3 posts per day in Spring and now I am down to 1 post every other day at best. There needs to be more discussion as to why people say its hard to dance to timba. So there, there is your new thread.
 
Hmmmm Timba is an interesting one - many people will abstain from dancing as it's too challenging, however being challenged will only improve musicality so I take every opportunity to dance it I can get!

Hey Jambo the boards have been noticeably quieter for a few weeks now...

To answer smiling's Q: I've noticed the same thing happening with salsa classes - this time of the year people seem to mellow out a bit more in preparation for festivities and I think that flows on to forums.
 
Jag75 said:
Hmmmm Timba is an interesting one - many people will abstain from dancing as it's too challenging, however being challenged will only improve musicality so I take every opportunity to dance it I can get!
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It's not hard to dance to timba - if you dance Cuban style :P
Same can be said about latin jazz and on2, I suppose.

Jag75 said:
To answer smiling's Q: I've noticed the same thing happening with salsa classes - this time of the year people seem to mellow out a bit more in preparation for festivities and I think that flows on to forums.
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Festivities? Thought that was over a month away...
EDIT: :doh: You are talking about Thanksgiving, not Xmas, of course...

Personally I've been busy with work, checking tributes to Lee on Facebook and frantically trying to work out if there was any chance of me making it to GBSex without inconveniencing hubby too much...

Oh, and dancing every night - but there's nothing unusual about that :lol:
 
Jambo said:
I would have thought that was quite obvious.
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My apologies for the misunderstanding Jambo.


I am referring to the last month or so even more. I notice that more people are using facebook and wonder if that has affected messageboards like ours.

Anyway, thanks for the replies (and Timba discussion) he he :)
 
smiling28 said:
I notice that more people are using facebook and wonder if that has affected messageboards like ours.
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So far I don't feel that Facebook has been able to replace a forum like this... to me FB is more of a place to catch up with people I already know than a place for discussing things and making new salsa friends around the world (for which SF has been great).

I think azzey's got a point... it can often be just one person joining the board and asking some questions that starts a whole lot of lively exchanges for a while, then things get quieter.
 
MacMoto said:
So far I don't feel that Facebook has been able to replace a forum like this... to me FB is more of a place to catch up with people I already know than a place for discussing things and making new salsa friends around the world (for which SF has been great).

I think azzey's got a point... it can often be just one person joining the board and asking some questions that starts a whole lot of lively exchanges for a while, then things get quieter.
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x2 facebook really doesn't do much for actual soulful interaction

How can you forget Thanksgiving!!! Easily the best holiday of the year. I just love stuffing myself with turkey stuffed with stuffing...almost like a Matryoshka doll....emmm i can already smell the turkey
 
opm1s6 said:
How can you forget Thanksgiving!!! Easily the best holiday of the year.
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It's easy enough to forget something you haven't got :nope:

We've got St Andrews Day in Scotland (now an official holiday - 30 Nov) and 'Labor Thanksgiving Day' in Japan (23 Nov), but they are not quite the same as the US Thanksgiving Day. We've got a little while to go yet before we start feeling festive...
 
No thanksgiving here in England. Obviously our lot weren't as delighted to get rid of your founding fathers as they were to have got away!
 
as far as the boards being quiter - yeah, I've noticed that. I stop in everyone once in a while and chime in - just have gotten to busy with traveling/work - and haven't had a whole lot of time to salsa. Wonder where everyone else has gone?
 
sweavo said:
No thanksgiving here in England. Obviously our lot weren't as delighted to get rid of your founding fathers as they were to have got away!
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I don't think Thanksgiving has anything to do with American independence. I believe it is what we would call Harvest Festival, i.e. giving thanks for this year's harvest .... and trying to eat it all in one day!
Right, must go, I'm off to deliver that last tin of runner beans to the old lady round the corner.
 
I just had to say, as Im reading I am thinking the same thing, what about T Day...then O yeah other countries dont have that....lol at myself at this moment.
 
miércoles said:
I don't think Thanksgiving has anything to do with American independence.
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No, not independence, but wasn't it about getting to be Puritans without getting bullied by Catholics with bad teeth or something? And in order to do that they all had to pile on the Mayflower and got really cold and hungry in New England (there being no McDonalds in New England at that time) And thanksgiving was when they got to spring, sowed some seeds, got a harvest, and someone said "thank God for that!" so they did.

Meanwhile we were too busy getting over the passing of Sir Walter Raleigh, inventor of the potato and the bicycle, to have a festival.
 
Here is what my american public education left me with.
Thanksgiving is when the puritans gave thanks to the native americans who provided them with food and shelter when they arrived, thus preventing their imminent death. So the brits sat down with the native americans and shared their traditional foods (turkey, yams, corn, pot?). That was right before the colonists (perhaps not the same ones, but related) infected the native americans with european diseases, raped their women, and killed most of their population (disclaimer: that wasn't in the school curriculum). But, hey, they did say thanks first.
 
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