In the context of the purchasing/tipping currency arguably being words, I'm not sure patrons who show up but every few months should be surprised to find the place in shambles for insufficient revenue.
If you're referring to to my infrequent posts, I stated that I was in hospital for a while, thus in a condition in which I was unable to post. But even without this incident, most of time I simply prefer to listen, rather than talk about whatever random thing comes to my mind, as more posts from me would make it more likely for certain people to discover my separate online identities.
On the other hand, I do not understand why you equal frequent posting ("mass") to good/high quality ("class"), given that a lot of social media, where virtually a handful of people are responsible for the vast majority of "content", are considered "dumpsters". I agree with ~showbx; sometimes people just can't be online all the time to share something that isn't of potential low quality.
In this regard, I apologize for my negativity. It was not my intent to offend anyone with my melancholic writing.
I feel people are being a bit too negative here lately. We are few and even fewer are constantly active, welcome to the smolnet.
I'd love to be more active here but the fact that I have little "calm time" and relatively little to share makes it really hard for me to contribute meaningful conversations, at least without compromising quality.
In the last post by ~ew, the way you described other's people relationship with the smolnet as "therapy from addictive short form interactions" really struck with me; lately I'm feeling both overwhelmed and starved of interactions at the same time, but I don't use social networks, so what's going on?
I still have no idea. Seriously.
One hint might be how _everything_ seems to revolve around SNs lately. From TV stuff to the ads on the street, everything seems to _encourage_ a short attention span. I feel like I'm swimming upstream. What if this is spilling over to how society interacts altogether?
Still I feel like, in a way, that _that's_ the point of a place like this. To have sporadic but long interactions with other people looking to chill at that time. Obviously a pub is going to have bursts of interactions and not a constant stream of people.
Those are my 2cts.