I start this by saying: (well, aside from what I just said, which is actually what started the sentence{oh boy, yes I know, I live in this brain of mine and it's horrible sometimes...}) I don't like to make eternal judgements on the nature of someone's being right or wrong in situations that don't really show themselves to be easily discernable from a utilitarian perspective. Now:
If by "feel that way" you mean make an assumption based on statistical knowledge of people, who, when they get their first problem solved, leave and don't come back, and utilizing that data to decide you don't want to help them, then I'd say, "I don't at all. Who am I to want a pat on the back every time I help/try to help someone, and if I feel I may not get that, not want to help them". I see every post as a possible last post for someone, because who knows, I may die if a plane crashes into my house tonight after I post this, of course, this is a different variable affecting one's non-desire to post back. The other person who reads my post and, say, answers it, will not know whether I died, knowingly didn't want to come back just to be a curmudgeon of sorts, or any grey area inbetween. So out of pragmatic use, why bother yourself? Don't let yourself worry about being worth as much as others feed you, because believe me, I'd be dead, heh.
On the "greediness" or "narcissism" associated with finding an answer/help then leaving immediately and giving not a second look back, such people will always exist, and it does no good to bother oneself over it, only helps to enlarge the ego and affix its position as the most important thing within oneself. Those gold pieces (people that like to: help people/learn) that one (oneself...yah, I know...unnecessary:huh:... supposed to be funny) finds in the streams of life (the forums of the internet) are worth it enough most of the time (mind my metaphor) to not mind them showing up much less commonly than the "hit and runners".
I was always a leech before I came to this forum. It took many a forum for me to feel the desire to become one with others, and to give up part of myself for a good that is not my own. Maybe these people need to skip by this forum for now to find another down the road that they'll like, for whatever reason, and nest there. What, is this everyone's first computer forum? This is roughly my tenth computer-based forum, and I don't know if this is anti altruistic, but I haven't the desire to nest at any other computer-based forums either.
But if we want to be like the "strange people who live alone and lack social skills, who, when a person walks past on the street, we ask them a question in order to garner a response with the idea of reeling them in closer to feel a sense of unity with other people" (I'm not making fun, just trying to be humorous), could there be a way of engaging the person on a quasi-mandatory note, to get them to be more likely to stick around, or is that a manipulative, dictator-esque, marketing (refer to Bill Hicks) trick that is too unagreeable to do? Like open up with instead of, "Hello and welcome to..." with "Hey, let me tell you this joke I heard the other day, real quick", heh.
I want to say more I think...but I've taken two sleep aids in the past hour and a half and feel silly.:shock:
