Anybody other than me.........

[Crystalship1]

Anybody other than me......... actually read anything other than the first and the last post in a thread?!?!?

I get so tired of reading through a thread where somebody asks a question and 14 people answer with the exact same answer because they didn't bother to see if it had been answered already. Now... I'm not talking a ten page thread, I'm talking a one or two page thread!!!! Is it really that hard to see if you're going to be helping or just sounding like a parrot??

Sheeze!!!!

Oh...... and I'll add that "alot" is NOT a freaking' word!!!!!

OK.... I feel better now!!!

 

[Bigum1969]

Just kidding with ya CS1!

 

[Archbishop]

I'm with you. can't say I've never made the mistake, but half the fun is reading all the comments.

 

[Old Salt]

I always read the whole thread; unless it is like the funny picture thread with 1000 pages, those I kind of hit and miss. LOL

 

[Pami]

It depends on the thread. If it's in one of my regularly watched forums, I probably read every post. If it's a reported post, then yeah, I generally go back and read the whole thread to get a feel for the context before I take action. If it's a subject that I think has the potential to explode but seems to be simmering first, I might just pop in and catch a few posts here and there.

I used to read every single post that was posted, but that was back when there were like 30 new posts a day. I think I stopped reading every post when I broke the 700 new posts since my last login mark. Today it was 1400 posts. And I was just here this morning. /sigh

 

[Benny]

I'm with you. can't say I've never made the mistake, but half the fun is reading all the comments.







































(See what I did there?)

 

[Turtle]

Anybody other than me......... actually read anything other than the first and the last post in a thread?!?!?

I get so tired of reading through a thread where somebody asks a question and 14 people answer with the exact same answer because they didn't bother to see if it had been answered already. Now... I'm not talking a ten page thread, I'm talking a one or two page thread!!!! Is it really that hard to see if you're going to be helping or just sounding like a parrot??

Sheeze!!!!

Oh...... and I'll add that "alot" is NOT a freaking' word!!!!!

OK.... I feel better now!!!

 

[ATF Consumer]

Yep and I've found where I have replied to a post that is about the same as someone else's, so my post is again a duplication of thought...

There seems to be some days that are dry with nothing much going on of interest...but days like today have been quite active with some good discussions. Not that I participate in all of them, but reading them are certainly entertaining.

 

[Bigum1969]

Just kidding with ya CS1!











Cr@p, I think I repeated myself

 

[Vigilant]

I do it ALOT!

 

[bwframe]

I'll counter your question with another. Am I the only one who breezes through a thread, looking only for posters whose opinion I think I might be interested in?

 

[Blue Tile Spook]

If I'm interested in the thread subject, I'll read the whole thread.

I tend to stay away from the threads that ask questions that have been answered ad infinitum because I have nothing to add, the question usually gets answered within three replies to the post, and if the thread somehow goes beyond two pages, there is usually the person that comes into the thread and writes something to the effect of, "I haven't read all the replies here but I'll chime in with ...", basically restating several of the earlier replies.

Holding my cursor over the title of the thread throws up a preview of the first couple of sentences of a thread and I use that as a guide to see if I'm interested enough to enter the thread to read the entire thread. Other than that, I skip the thread in its entirety.

 

[Benny]

Hey CS1, I have a question for you,

Am I the only one who breezes through a thread, looking only for posters whose opinion I think I might be interested in?

 

[Crystalship1]

I love you, you wee BASTARDS!!!!!!

 

[mkelsey]

I generally read everything unless I go into the politics section and then I read until I start wanting to gouge my eyes out, at which point I start skipping ahead looking for the part where name calling starts.

 

[renegade]

If it is about something that i'm intrested in or if I have an answer, I read all the way through. If I find my comment has been made already then I don't post. That why I have such a low count.

 

[bdj357]

I lost a button and couldn't sew it on because of lack of thread.

HEE HEE HA HA WHO WHO!

 

[jennybird]

 

[ATM]

I breezed through this thread, looking only for posters whose opinions I thought I might be interested in.




Now I am going elsewhere.

 

[jennybird]

I breezed through this thread, looking only for posters whose opinions I thought I might be interested in.




Now I am going elsewhere.

Did someone say something?