Is that what 'friends' are for? I thought that was just positrolling.

I didn't think this was a contest. I thought it was for fun. Who gives a rats behind about points!

I consider myself quite lucky to have you as a friend on this site, but God knows i cannot answer your political questions because we have such different views and I am a quite stubborn female. But i do the same, and checking friends Q&A is all i really do most days. But most of my friends never answer my Q's, just when i answer theirs xD Perhaps you should go through your friends list, and ask yourself who never gets on? who never interacts? do i know all of them? I do that regularly :o) No point in having them if they never contribute.

You need to track down the stingy bast##d that's only giving you 1/3 of a point right away and have it out with them, :)

I am not too good about going through my friend's new questions so I am one of the bunch to blame. :P I need to make more of an effort to do that. I just tend to forget. ---------edit, added from a comment thread: I do not mean any offense by it, Bull. I am: 1) back to work, 2) have a bloody bad memory. . This obviously really bothers you whereas it does not bother me. We are two different people. If you want to delete people who do not answer your questions I would not be offended and it would not affect our friendship.

You're a great AB'er Bull. Sometimes our questions get a great response and sometimes they don't. It's all about timing, who's online .. just a ton of reasons. I wish I had the answer to what makes a question interesting to people ... We all go through times when we don't get a lot of response. You're not alone. I hope you can still enjoy yourself ... lately, I've had a lot more fun answering questions than asking them any. I go back and forth.

Well, my friend, I have to confess I don't go through the recent posts of my friends on a regular basis. That would mean spending a lot more time than I do on AB, and I just don't have that kind of time these days. I've been on AB for over 3 years now, and I've come to realize that the questions that positively burn in my soul are rarely of interest to anyone else, and even if they are, those persons never seem to see them. I haven't even asked that many questions, maybe 25, and none of them got much response. But, ya know, you and I don't ask about pregnancy, unprotected sex, how to know if your S/o is cheating, etc. Those seem to be the popular sorts of categories. I apologize about neglecting your questions, as I'm sure I have done, because your questions as well as your answers DO matter to me.

I know that recently, with everything that is going on personally, I haven't been able to go through my friends list quite as much as I'd like to. I always make a point to do that whenever I have a lot of time, because I know that my friends that are on regularly always try to do the same. And right now, I'm also in training for a new position and I'm only on a few minutes here and there during the day.

Even though you said this wasn't about points (and I believe you, by the way) it's still incredible that, out of all your friends, you only get what amounts to 1/3 of a point per person. This obviously isn't working, so let's try a different approach!! People think of their friend's list in a variety of ways. I have a lot of friends on my FL, but to me it is the knowledge that someone wanted to be my friend that matters to me, and nothing else. They don't make a concerted effort to look up my Q's, and neither do I. And it isn't that neither side cares about the other, either! See, it gets boring, answering the same types of Q's all the time. A lot of people bag in just one or two areas, and some of those areas hold no interest for me. Plus, I can't keep up with 5-6 pages of friends and all their Q's. On the flipside, I hardly ever ask questions, so they would eventually get bored with checking up on me every day. There are a lot of reasons why bagging primarily from your FL doesn't work. A few of them I just listed, but there are others that are also good reasons. There's no bad guy in this, Bull. You just gotta tweak the way you look at having a FL. They aren't required to pay special attention to you, and you are released from feeling obligated toward them, too. You should be able to bag anywhere on AB at all times, and so should your friends. +6

They are points not dollars. I would'nt worry so much about it.

I think it's as Mrs. Cleaver said; it's really hit or miss on AB and timing has a lot to do with it. Kind of like photography, being in the right place at the right time with the right stuff. I'm rarely any of the above on AB but I'm not here much any more. In the summer especially the responses fall off because there is more daylight and nice weather so folks are not in front of the computer nearly as much during daylight hours and lots of questions are just missed. Of course hitting with the right question at the right time just makes it tougher. The overall mood of "the audience" has a lot to do with it and perhaps light hearted and simple questions get a better response in the summer as well.

Why don't you cry about it? I have like 4 friends on here that friended me and I've never once looked at their questions purposely.

Sorry Bull I have been away a lot, I promise to be a better friend once the 14 hour days end.

I have found that AB days are like the weather, somedays they are bright and plentiful and other days are slow and droopy. One day I can get in the 100's for a question and the next day get 40's. It is all about who is on and what sort of mood they are in. +5

I always answer my friends questions Bull, as long as I have enough points to continue I rate them too. If I run out of points I will answer them just to get them moving on the board so that others will answer them. I must say very few of them answer any of my questions so I do understand how you feel. Maybe that is why I have practically given up asking questions altogether.

I prefer quality of friends to quantity. Sorry to hear that your points aren't adding up as fast as you like. I'll send 3 your way.

Wierd. It seems you might pass me in the ranks soon. I like all the improvements to the site.

I give points to every question I answer, you certainly deserve points! :)