Does anyone know what's up with posters with no journal entries and no hearts this week?

[BKDem]

I posted something that got a couple of comments like that, and I thought they were a little strange...

[Brainstormy]

1. Beats me. :) n.t

[LakeArenal]

2. Ask them.🤷🏼‍♀️

[BeeBee]

3. No idea... n/t

[BeeBee]

5. Ahhh, thank you very much whoever gave me the heart! :) n/t

[jberryhill]

4. Maybe they aren't compulsive posters?

[IADEMO2004]

6. I never save to journal. Do I have to leave?

[Whiskeytide]

16. We'll see. You're under journal mismanagement review. n/t

[TheBlackAdder]

42. I never save anything either.

.

I give a couple of hearts to people who don't have any.

.

[Bettie]

7. I don't have any journal entries...

at least I don't think I do.

But I have some hearts!

[BKDem]

8. I am new and stupid about these things.

But didn’t everybody get a heart this week??

[dewsgirl]

54. Users purchase them and then give them to others.

[dewsgirl]

53. I believe it's in your settings.

[quickesst]

9. someone was kind enough...

....to give me a heart today which should eliminate me from being the focus of conspiracy........or does it? 🤔

[mitch96]

10. ?? Bots?? or Republ/Russian newbees scouting around.... nt

[BKDem]

11. I don't want to be paranoid, but it comes naturally.

And the bots crank out a lot of strange stuff. What is a journal anyway? Is it different from a profile??

[lunatica]

24. It's a space on your account where what you post is stored

That way you can go retrieve something you posted before. At the bottom of the window where your post is displayed there is usually a button you can click on to save to your journal.

[BKDem]

25. Thanks.

I had no idea. You have to understand— I lurked he for YEARS before I ever posted.

[eleny]

34. I thought you had to elect to add postings to the Journal

But our posts do go into the My Posts folder automatically. I think My Posts is limited in number, though.

I don't add my postings into the Journal.

[lunatica]

35. I'm not sure. I thought you had to elect them too

But for some reason mine go in to my journal. Maybe I made it permanent by accident.

[eleny]

37. I never noticed that option

Frankly, I don't want all my posts in a place where they can be visited. I'm sure I've embarrassed myself a time or two. Or three!

[whistler162]

19. Or people who like me

don't give a flying leap about hearts or journals!

I see I got a heart from somewhere......WHOOPIE!!!!!!!

[Polly Hennessey]

12. I've been here since 2003.

I have no journal entries. I am not sure if anything I’ve said is journal worthy. 😦

[lynintenn]

22. Same here. Joined in 2004. 0 journals

[dewsgirl]

55. I believe it's in your settings.

[MoonchildCA]

13. Clearly we are up to nefarious schemes...

[Nature Man]

14. what's a "journal?"

on second thought, I'm too lazy to even care.

[whistler162]

21. Another place on the web for

people to ramble on about little or nothing and have it preserved forever.

[Nature Man]

23. Glad I missed that!

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

51. I love this post

Best description of the internet

[July]

15. After many years on DU, I still don't know what "journal entries" are, and I have no hearts.

I’m here for the information and conversation, and I don’t care if anyone gives me hearts. I just want to hear what people have to say.

[BKDem]

20. I'm with you.

See my apology/retraction (#18) below.

[July]

30. Thanks, no need to apologize. Nt

[virgogal]

17. What's a journal?😇

[BKDem]

18. OK, never mind.

Profiles are different from journal entries. In my (timid) defense, if you click on a poster’s name, you get a green box that looks like a warning: Attention! Attention! No journal entries! Be suspicious! But the next tab is a profile.

But I still thought everybody got a heart this week.

I believe I’m on record as saying I’m stupid about this stuff

And paranoid.

[lunatica]

27. LOL!

Stop it right now!

[TwilightZone]

28. "I still thought everybody got a heart this week"

The only reference I saw to that was a sarcastic post about how DU was giving everyone a heart to remind people to donate money. It was rather obnoxious, and I don't think it was based on anything legitimate. Perhaps you saw the same one.

[tnlurker]

26. I post about once or twice per month

I have been a member since 2005 (Lurked long before that...thus my name) and I have fewer that 1000 posts so far. Somebody was offering hearts the other day and I did not ask for any. I have never had one given to me yet. The heart thing just doesn't seem to interest me that much

This place keeps me sane though knowing that many people think in similar ways as I do.

Thanks for everybody posting all the time. I appreciate all of the information I am able to get here.

[Fresh_Start]

29. you don't have to have journal entries turned on

it;s a setting.

[GentryDixon]

31. I've been a star member since 2008..

lurked a few years before I purchased my first star. I have never posted to my journal, rarely post, so whether I have a heart or not is not indicative of my appreciation of this site.

DU is my first stop in the morning when I turn on my tablet.

[notdarkyet]

32. I don't say much. Been around for years. On a lot of juries. I got hearts last year. Have been

Very dpresessed since the onslaught of the trump regime..)

[Cadfael]

33. I've been here since the beginning

No journal entries and no hearts....can I stay?

[BKDem]

36. Please!

[mcar]

38. I've been here since 2002

I don't think I have any journal entries. I don't even know how to do that.

Should I leave?

[BKDem]

40. Hell no!

[jcgoldie]

43. If I knew there was gonna be homework I never would have registered for this!

[mcar]

48. ...

[Dorian Gray]

39. Journal?

Am I supposed to maintain a journal? Yikes.

[BKDem]

41. No.

Your portrait in the attic says it all.

(Just kidding.)

[DVRacer]

44. I don't like Valentines Day

Personal I lost someone at this time of year.

[IADEMO2004]

47. My fifth sad Valentines Day.

[DVRacer]

57. I lost my sister to sepsis after a minor surgery

Late January 5 years ago and her birthday is February 12th. She was the one big about the holidays.

[IADEMO2004]

59. Wife's cancer fight ended on my sisters birthday.

Her family always spent holidays here and they still do. It's ok but sadness is just under the surface.

[salin]

45. Some of us read several times a day (as I have since late 2001 - didn't register til Jan of 2002),

but don't comment much. I understand skepticism (and it has always been here - since I have been posting in 2002), but come on. Posters who aren't actively posting are now suspect of something?

Or am I misunderstanding the point of your post - and are you commenting on people raising questions like this - and pushing back - in which case - I thank you (because of the sentiments written above.)

[Baclava]

46. Is there where you come to beg for hearts?

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

49. Lol

I just woke up. I read that as "beg for farts" the first time.

[easttexaslefty]

50. I got no hearts

And no journal entries.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

52. So tell us what's up with you

This whole thread is about people like you.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

56. Me too. Mostly a reader. 🙃

[lark]

58. Journal entries?

I have been on here since the disaster in 2000 and have never entered a single thing in a "journal". I have a couple of bookmarks, but that's it. I was lucky enough to get a few hearts though, for which I am thankful. Just saying a person could be a regular here and not have journals.