Lack Of Response?

Karen,

I have seen your posts on other boards where people didn't respond after you took your time to try and help someone with hair questions. I think that is so rude and shows that the person in question is inconsiderate. They could at least post one word like thanks or something. It is my opinion that you should never post on boards where people don't appreicate the help and only post on boards where they do and they respond.

Just My Opinion.

Thank you so much for being proactive about removing unsolicited advertisements and spam and links. I find it so distasteful that all of your folks have spent so much time and money building a messageboard where people can feel safe to post about their favorite topics only to have people who are trying to promote their own websites or their own things try to use your boards and impose on the visitors. It would be like someone from KMart sitting outside the door of JCPenny trying to sell KMart products. JCPenny paid for the space but people think that gives them the right to just do what they want.

Thank you for not putting up with it. So many boards do and I will not visit a board where I am subjected to blatant advertising, spamming, chain letters, porn or other stuff.

I love coming here because of how you police the boards.

Jodie Kloster

hear! hear! I agree wholeheartedly!

Karen,

As you know, I never try to suck up. LOL. Your post was too funny. You made my day. I can just see you sitting in your office talking to yourself. What an image. ROTFLOL

Jane

Hi grenwich...

Sometimes I do use the semi-permanents, but I really get good results with Open, it's a "soft" permanent.

So if you only apply the semi to the roots, does the color stay (somewhat) in the rest of your hair? I heard that porous hair grabs the color more and even when using the semi-permanents the previously dyed hair will keep some color. Since I have permanent color in my hair it would be a long long time before I could find that out....

Thanks for answering! and I will move this over to the "Hair Color" thread... I goofed and started this topic on the wrong thread... I read about this somewhere else and here I am guilty of it. But when I saw your post I thought here is someone who can give me advice!

Thanks again

Hi,

What a great thread!!!!!! I have really enjoyed reading it. Thank you so much for the topic.

I hope you will all allow me to rant and rave for a few seconds on this very topic. :-)

I visit many message boards all the time, every day, and have since 1996 when HairBoutique.com used to be called Long Hair Video. In the early days I used to post and people would tend to respond. At least many people did.

However, as the years have gone by (my how time flies) I find now that I often post and no one responds. Not even on some of the HairBoutique.com. boards which shall remain nameless. :-) Which of course tends to make me......a normally paronid person......even more paranoid. LOL. I also try not to post too much because I don't want people to think that I am hanging around too much or trying to dominate any topics...which is the last thing I would ever want to do.

I go to all the boards that were mentioned here, even though not by name and except for one, people rarely respond to me. I don't know if it is because they don't know what to say, don't want to post something controversial or if they just want to lurk and read. Or maybe they don't know me and think I am a "know it all" because I am always posting about hair. Which of course that is the last thing I want to be considered since I know very little in reality about a lot of things.

I do want to help people by posting if I have some thoughts but I want it be an exchange and not an advice thing so often I see posts that I don't respond to because I don't want to seem to be advising but just discussing. Know what I mean?

One think that I do like is that no one seems to suck up to me or Jeff...at least that I have noticed...and I do appreciate that because I do like truth and honesty. So I guess I would rather than people ignore my posts than to suck up. LOL.

Of course I don't like people that spam, use the boards for their own political agendas that are not hair related or are trouble makers. Other than that, I would rather hear the bad stuff than nothing at all. Know what I mean?

I talk to myself a lot. And I mean a lot. I think it is because I have so much overload on my brain all the time. At any rate, it seems to make it easier for me to post with the idea that no one will respond since I talk to myself anyway. :-)

OK. Well before I step off my soap box let me tell you one thing that is even worse than posting on messageboards and not getting a message....it is answering email and never getting a response back.

I get literally hundreds of private emails every day. I used to try and answer every one but found that 99.99% never responded to me. So now I have an auto responder to try and let people at least know I am reading their messages. Even when I do respond (and I get to about 75% of the emails I receive now) I still don't get a message back.

No thank yous, screw you, you suck or whatever. LOL. I guess maybe that is just the way people are these days. At any rate, if you see me driving down the road moving my lips, I am probably talking to myself or singing...very badly...offkey to a CD.

Thanks again for this topic. It has been great and given me a chance to vent a little. :-)

Please keep posting even if there is limited response because I do read every post on all these boards every day. Thank you for coming to HairBoutique.com.

Best wishes,
Karen Marie Shelton
shelton@hairboutique.com

Hi grenwich... can I squeak in here? You said that you colour the grey. With your long hair, what do you use and how do you keep it healthy. My hair is only just past my shoulders and I decided to stop colouring it and just baby it now as it grows long. You can check out some of my other posts for my story, cause I don't want to repeat myself. Well to fast forward to today, I caved in and coloured it just 3 days ago... all my years of doing this myself I have only had a couple of bad results that really weren't so bad, and resolvable. But I have always kept my hair where it's at length-wise because of the way it looks as the color fades. It is soft and healthy feeling, no split ends, yet the ends (about 4 inches or so) look deadish, to me any ways. So I never have gotten my length back. It started 6 years ago in a salon, I had waist length hair, loved it, and only wanted a color-weave. Just a light one to brighten things up. I have enough natural highlights that I just needed a boost. Well, something happened and the color spread. And I had solid color... it was a new technique that this new stylist obviously did not study up on. Anyhow, it began my adventure into coloring my hair. But first I cut off the bottom half, and ever since I have kept it cut. So what can you recommend for me to do if I keep colouring it yet want to grow it out again. I have seen many women with long hair that is dyed, and their hair looks healthy. My plan is to wean myself from colouring it altogether, so now I am trying to stay off the box for about 5 months then decide what to do. That's how long I waited this last time, but before that it was every 6 weeks for the last 6 years. Yeeesh! My hair tends to fade fast and I love the color it fades away to. My natural color, I have no idea really, it's been too many years. But as it greys I do not want to colour it anymore because I don't want white or grey roots showing! Sorry this turned out soooo long.

wittils

Hey Gren,

I'm a Hair Stylist, and I love that. But the computer thing is really fun too, I originally started with Photoshop to do computer imaging...putting different hair on a picture of someone...So fun. It got frustrating though...I would much rather just Do the Style.

Now you can go out and buy software that does it right on you own computer.

I love your...Saying... eyes... window to the soul, hair is the drapery..that is great can I use it?

See you in the Posts

Hi Gren; Yes it's mine, all of my drawings look different but I think they are all ME...LOL . Its pencil inhanced with Photoshop...I love what the computer can do.

You have to download a picture of you with that mane of yours, one of these days.

Happy posting.

Hey Grenwich: I hear you...I read most new posts and many of them I don't respond to, and lately I just respond to the posts that interest me. Most times there won't be a response for a long time.

I think that alot of the boards I visit have been slow since before Christmas.??Yawn!

Your hair sounds Amaizing, by the way.