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Originally posted by socrates
Can I ask. Is it normal to be so suspicious of a post?
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Only abnormal posts.
This post was your first post in the Cellar. You haven't made many since. Your member details are not many, and you specify that you don't want to receive email through this community even though it would protect your privacy.
You haven't contributed much to the community, yet, but have so many questions. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it does raise suspicions in certain other circumstances.
Your first post mentions a book, which you praise in a follow-up post in this thread.
Your member name corresponds to the psuedomyn of the author of that book. The author of that book is very Internet savvy, having recently become a columnist in the adult learning section of about.com, which is the same subject as this thread.
Your first post is in a new thread started with the title Virtual Learning and your first post uses the terms "lifelong learning" which is the buzzword of the author.
You enquire about virtual learning, relating it to your personal situation being rural etc., implying that you might be considering such, but don't actually respond to any of the replies in this thread that deal with the subject of virtual learning ... only responding to those that mention the book.
You enquire about virtual learning, and ask about the experiences of the common folk in the Cellar, yet describe yourself as a sociology scholar in another thread.
You have only participated in three threads ... two started by yourself.
Is it common to be so suspicious of a post? No. Is it common for a post to be so suspicious? No.
While the identity of this member may not be "Mr." Gross (such deference!) it may well be someone from about.com shilling for their new alliance with Mr. Gross and the chats they've been running over there with "
Socrates" this month.
You are quite right to suggest that Mr. Gross would be unlikely to shill his book on the Cellar. It probably has more to do with the marketing folks at About.com.
And, if that's the case, they must be delighted with this thread.
