I have enjoyed our Bead Collector Forum since joining, some seven years ago ish (I know... I'm a baby). Lately I have noted a reoccurring thread during conversations with several posters both public, and private (myself included). That commonality being the stifling consternation of posting an error, showing ignorance, even the need to edit and re-edit a post. All so very understandable, especially among the many accomplished forumites I respect so.

While possibly I could do more listening and less talking!! Actually my learning needs are more met with the myriad of interactions. There are also soooo many times when I realize I printed an error for everyone to see!! Ahhhhh... Ooopsies. It is hard not to misspeak, or make an error, especially with my lazy typing. Regrettably, I usually try to fit a complete thought onto the subject bar, and often simplify my assertion to make it fit. Alternately, I don't want to invariably start a sentence with the oft needed qualifiers: "From a photo", Without provenance", or "IMHO" etc... I actually hope the qualifiers are inherently understood, as we all have the same cyber limitations. A spoken conversation is so fluid, you can modify a statement so easily, while a written statement feels like such a treatise. Or sometimes I just blow it! Honestly (not pertaining to Will) most of us cannot type as fast, or as accurate as our minds stream.

I very earnestly feel that most of the time when I leave out data, inadvertently slight, feel slighted, or that my knowledge is faulty, it stems from either miscommunication, laziness, or bad typing.s... Minus a shunned disruptor here or there we are all here to learn, share, express our understanding and love of beads!!

No accusations, no personal direction, I just miss some of you! The point is, I want to encourage all our friends here at the BCN to post more, lurk less!

Thank you everyone for posting, and a thank you to David, and Joyce too. The end.