"new thread (topic) but too many responses!

flanum

yay, ye just finished work, some of us dont be at the intranets during the day, ye get home, slap on the kettle and pan, turn on the auld pc, check your email , click on boardsies, GREAT.... NEW topics since u looked at it last night, but.... 14 or more replies to it.(3 pages).! now could you be bothered your hole reading every response or do you read the first page and just go straight to "reply" (even if its got 3 or more pages of debate)?

poll here!

Looby_Loo

Will read the first page and if it interests me I go further, if not I dont read any more

Epic Tissue

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I normally skip a lot of the replies, depending on the subject. Especially in AH.

kerry4sam

Skip the second two pages AFTER u've eaten and go straight for jugular response?

Have a quick gawk at it and the first 2 replies and then go for your tea ... That's what i voted for ...

I' ll have a look and If it really grabs my attention i will read on and reply; if not then i'll go about my business and return again at a later time to read on and respond to one thing or another then ... What's great about boards is that their is always something to read and/or respond to if you want to

Red Hand

Haven't read this...

Random comment.

andrew

Posting here just to piss off the people who come in late.

flanum

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sorry forgot to say.(me personally).. if its more than 2 pages then id read the first 2 or 3 responses then head straight for a reply ! ! (but take ages backspacing and quotation marks and brackets!)! and still havent figured out whether you are suppoaed to leave the exclamation mark within the brackets or outside,.. hence i do both, just to be sure.. (like this!)!

randylonghorn

In Cavan, exclamation marks bracket you ... >_>

KnifeWRENCH

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Why did you make a poll where someone can select all options at once?
Anyways I usually make a half-arsed effort to read the first few pages, if it's too long I just ignore it (tl;dr and all that)

beautiation

I check a few messages to see if there's any fights or juice brewing and if there's not I usually skip ahead to the last page, where any interesting comments will be quoted anyway.

For convenience there should be a tag put on threads people are going mental at each other in.

cHaTbOx

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Use the ould head . If 15 pages spring up on random thread something has happened, if posts are similar like this one skip to end.

Black Swan

Will read the OP, maybe the first page, then the last. But if it goes on for many pages, not likely, unless it's a HOT topic and I get involved. Most multiple page threads are filled with rubbish or trolls between friends, and of little substance.

Dave!

Have a quick gawk at it and the first 2 replies and then go for your tea?

Depends what the topic is really... Usually eat food whilst reading through the threads.

Abi

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I'd read the OP, skip past the 'yore mas' and read the most recent page or so to get a feel for the direction of the thread.

Pretty much what BL said tbh. It wouldn't be uncommon for me to watch a topic, have some opinions on it, but put nothing in until somebody posts something stupid.

Sherifu

Nope of the poll options seemed to suit so I didn't vote.

If a thread is rated highly, is a classic thread(JigSaw) or is interesting i'll try to read all of it if I have time. Otherwise I may skip replies but only if it has gone to a few pages.

c - 13

If its a topic that interests me then i'll read it all.

If the OP and the first couple of replies don't interest me then I don't bother reading and replying

RxQueen

if its intresting i'll read it all, you do get the odd thread that friggen brilliant, and has me laughing for ages!! i threads like that!

dr.bollocko

I just scan every single thread periodically to check for when people mention my name.



None so far.

Latchy

Skip the second two pages AFTER u've eaten and go straight for jugular response?

If there are 3 4 pages and some of the posts are very long then tend to skip to the more recent one, but somtimes skip back ,like reading the back sports pages first through to the front headline in a newspaper

sidneykidney

Sherifu wrote: »

Nope of the poll options seemed to suit so I didn't vote.

If a thread is rated highly, is a classic thread(JigSaw) or is interesting i'll try to read all of it if I have time. Otherwise I may skip replies but only if it has gone to a few pages.

Ok,wtf is this jigsaw thread heard it mentioned a lot now. link???

cHaTbOx

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sidneykidney wrote: »

Ok,wtf is this jigsaw thread heard it mentioned a lot now. link???

Lmao The reason it's talk about so much is because you can't get a link lol:pac:

Sherifu

sidneykidney wrote: »

Ok,wtf is this jigsaw thread heard it mentioned a lot now. link???

Summary here. It happens to be the best thread in recent memory, now deleted.

Latchy

Skip the second two pages AFTER u've eaten and go straight for jugular response?

Sherifu wrote: »

Summary here. It happens to be the best thread in recent memory, now deleted.

Now that would grab ones attention

R0ot

I read the first page, skim the rest of them unless there is like 20+ pages then i'll skip to the last after the first two and read backwards if its interesting.

kowloon

Have a quick gawk at it and the first 2 replies and then go for your tea?

Sherifu wrote: »

If a thread is rated highly, is a classic thread(JigSaw) or is interesting i'll try to read all of it if I have time.

There is no Jigsaw thread, you must have imagined it. :pac:

Abi

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kowloon wrote: »

There is no Jigsaw thread, you must have imagined it.

Now if you could just look here please.


/Speeds off

Thrill

Abigayle wrote: »

Now if you could just look here please.


/Speeds off

Em.....eh....now where was I....humm...what is this place.....er.....??????

I just read the title and response without any reading of anything other than the OP.