Roll Call Interest Slowing Down?

[RuthlessBoss]

Social media sites are very popular too, and members are free discuss whatever they please :)

 

 

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I feel this is what has happened in many cases. And when you see a roll call with a high number, there does seem to be a lot of personal chit chat, or one person kind of takes over with multiple postings.

[SuiteTraveler]

This is so true. We did an NCL Spirit trip last spring Grand Med Cruise and we were a very active group of chatters on here. We had one bad apple that caused so many problems, issues, comments were degrading on and on. Most of us had to block him as he was emailing us personally as well....it turned out he was NEVER on our cruise to start with. I followed him on here and he was doing the same thing to another cruise going to the Baltics... what a lesson that was. He posted a picture of himself and it was some charming dude in a tux - that looked photo shopped and fake...

 

Now our latest upcoming cruise thru the Panama in April started out pretty good with chat and now since Jan 1st there hasn't been one post. Very quiet and odd but yes declining posts for sure. I do like the meet and greets, posting but obviously it's a dying art...bummer!:rolleyes:

 

I'm so sorry this happened to you. We did a Caribbean cruise last year and this bizarre woman who was not on our roll call turned up at the M&G and also came along on our cabin crawl. First she claimed to be another poster here - someone I know, so I knew it was not her and I called her on it and then she claimed her CC name was something different - BS. Then she was raving over how bad her cabin was and that it was ruining her trip and angling to get people from our roll call to go with her to guest services to get a refund of cruise credit. On and on she raved about this. Next thing you know she was asking various people if they wanted someone to share a suite with them on future cruises. Uh...no and most definitely NOT her. It was obvious she had social, if not psychological issues, had been lurking our roll call and these boards and it was a huge turn off for our group. We were all just trying our best to ignore her. Most disturbingly, when we had the cabin crawl, she turned up for it and would not leave the Owner's Suite at the end of the cabin crawl when everyone else had left. I was so concerned about her behavior that after I got back to my cabin - right after the cabin crawl, I called the people in the Owner's Suite back immediately to make sure she was gone and they did not need me to call security for them. The husband in then Owner's Suite had literally had had to take her by the arm and escort her out of The Haven.

 

There are strange people everywhere, but this situation was very worrisome and uncomfortable. It's made me think twice about ever participating in a cabin crawl again.

[Rudyard]

While I don't have a lot of cruises (yet) I can say that my roll calls have been varied. The first one had a lot of members, but only about four or five of us that posted regularly. Surprisingly about thirty people showed for the M&G. This was the only thing we did as a group.

 

The second and third ones weren't very active and no M&Gs were planned.

 

The roll call for my last cruise was pretty active for the most part. I think that had a lot to do with the new departure port (Houston) and the new destination (Trujillo). It got really active about a month out as a lot of people started joining over the last three or four weeks as they took advantage of last minute deals. We did a M&G, cabin crawl, pub crawl, etc. We even kept posting for a few days after the cruise ended.

 

A friend of mine always seems to have good luck with active roll calls, but told me recently that the roll call for the cruise she is taking next month on Royal is pretty dead.

[CruisinMaterial]

Some cruises have a lot of late bookings because they don't require a lot of pre-planning. The current cruise I have on the Norwegian Sky only got active in the last month and the sailing is coming up very soon. I attributed it to last minute bookings and that's what all these people were - largely bargain hunting or cashing in the BOGO sale from last year.

 

The roll calls for the trans-Atlantics seems the MOST active out of them all followed by Halloween themed ones I've noticed. :D If you're going to be at sea for a long period of time it's nice to have friends going. It also seems like there's a ton of people who repeatedly bring out NCL's new ships and take the pre-inaugural trans-atlantic.

 

I've noticed the general section of NCL has slowed down on people asking questions as well. A lot more users are obtaining information then posting but sometimes with the attacks, I can't help but wonder if people have just given up using this site. :(

[xriva]

Could someone define foamer please?

 

 

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Foamer (noun) - one who knows (or wants to know) every minute detail of a ship or cruise line. The people that know off the top of their heads that cabin 11561 on the Pearl has four more square feet than 11562. People who tend to roll their eyes at newcomer questions. The ones who choose a cruise based on the current cruise director, because they email him all the time, and they're very close.

 

I tend to be a bit like this on the ship, at least - I love behind the scenes tours, I'm constantly tracking our progress on my GPS, I want to know where everything is, but I try to control it.

[lambchoplady]

I'm so sorry this happened to you. We did a Caribbean cruise last year and this bizarre woman who was not on our roll call turned up at the M&G and also came along on our cabin crawl. First she claimed to be another poster here - someone I know, so I knew it was not her and I called her on it and then she claimed her CC name was something different - BS. Then she was raving over how bad her cabin was and that it was ruining her trip and angling to get people from our roll call to go with her to guest services to get a refund of cruise credit. On and on she raved about this. Next thing you know she was asking various people if they wanted someone to share a suite with them on future cruises. Uh...no and most definitely NOT her. It was obvious she had social, if not psychological issues, had been lurking our roll call and these boards and it was a huge turn off for our group. We were all just trying our best to ignore her. Most disturbingly, when we had the cabin crawl, she turned up for it and would not leave the Owner's Suite at the end of the cabin crawl when everyone else had left. I was so concerned about her behavior that after I got back to my cabin - right after the cabin crawl, I called the people in the Owner's Suite back immediately to make sure she was gone and they did not need me to call security for them. The husband in then Owner's Suite had literally had had to take her by the arm and escort her out of The Haven.

 

There are strange people everywhere, but this situation was very worrisome and uncomfortable. It's made me think twice about ever participating in a cabin crawl again.

 

When I ran the M&G, I printed name tags with both the CCname and the real first and last name (except for children who had first name only), so that we all knew who was who. If th person was a guest of the cc member, I listed that as well.

[Shayhooper]

I'm frankly turned off by the roll call for the next cruise I am going on. While the organizer is well intentioned they keep pressuring participants to provide "key words" that describe them and and their interests which is put on a list that is published online. The supposed purpose is to help people get to know each other easier but it feels too much creating a dating profile. I'm not comfortable with putting that much information about myself out there and random people on a ship knowing it. Feels..... Invasive and creepy.

[quercus alba]

I think a lot of it is a general change in social media culture--my kids and 20-something acquaintances have largely abandoned Facebook now for Twitter and Snapchat and other stuff I'm not cool enough to know about. Threaded bulletin boards like this are at least three generations behind, I fear. Those who really made roll calls go in the past are a minority of a minority--those who travel with relationship in mind in a world that is really driven by a mass-market consumer mindset.