DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

I get called "Dirt" all the time. Doesn't bother me a bit.

fantom Loc: Colorado

That's open for debate.

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

LOL, got me there!

Tom DePuy Loc: Waxhaw, N.C.

flathead27ford Loc: Colorado, North of Greeley

Mines not hard to miss. 😁

Marg Loc: Canadian transplanted to NW Alabama

I agree with John Gault in that you will quickly find people you particularly watch for. I don’t look at everything in depth but do skim the digest every morning with my tea. It takes a good hour and a half for me and if I have a posting myself garnering some comments it takes a really long time because I think it important to acknowledge the time each person took to comment on my picture. I do private message with a few and, in fact, the first person to send me a P.M. through UHH has become one of my dearest friends.
And like Stan, I prefer to address someone by his/her name. Sometimes you will pick it up in a thread, sometimes you will see it in the exif info (is that weird that I might look for it?)
So having said that, I like your avatar but what’s your name, mate?

wide2tele Loc: Australia

Yes, I agree. I have one dilemma with this. Being new to the forum is it appropriate???
I'm not sure so sometimes I've addressed someone by their name and sometimes I haven't.
I'll start doing it all the time now, especially that I've mentioned my dilemma here so hopefully people see this.
I just feel someone may think, "Hey, you just got here and don't know me enough to be acting like a friend."

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

Depends, if you know "Donkey_Slapper" is really named Bob, I would personally say "Thanks for the kind words Bob!" instead of "Thanks for the kind words "Donkey_Slapper"....

wide2tele Loc: Australia

Hey, I have a good example!
Just after making my reply here, I checked someone's photos I commented on.
The person (thread starter) came back and thanked me.
Now, every other person in the thread she thanked and used their name.
With me, she just gave a, "Thank you"
Every other person had as many posts as herself (1,000+) or more.
Suggests to me she was not comfortable to drop in my name.

The other issue is addressing males or females.
I had a fun reply to make to one lady and would've loved to have dropped her name in the post.
However, I felt it would've made things too personal so I left it out despite feeling with her name included, my reply would've been slightly more comical.
I feel it's more appropriate to address the males earlier by name (being a male myself) than myself addressing the ladies by their name.

Abo

On the long and winding road I discovered that seniority
does not necessarily mean competence.

I could present a case study that's a doozy...
I havn't; to protect the guilty.

And I reckon Avatars should be compulsory
on a Photo Forum.