To think people should read a whole thread before posting?

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Drives me mad. Posting without reading the whole thread is like eavesdropping on half a conversation and wading in. And with the sort-of anonymity afforded by t'interweb, people tend to wade in and then some. Don't people realise it makes them look stupid? Why do they persist in doing it?

TLDNR

YANBU particularyly where people jump on the OP. Either read the thread, or step away from the 'pooter. Do people do it cos they want their name on it, and because they can?

I try to. But sometimes it is hard.

And occasionally late posters are very funny... Like you are all sitting around having a chat when pissed bloke wanders over and shouts randomly at you.

I haven't read the whole thread, but because you have no idea who I am I will say YABU.

they should yes but when a post is 12 or 15 pages long who has time or can be bothered?

What does TLDNR mean?
True, Pag!

Totally agree. Surely if you can see a thread already has a large number of posts, it's reasonable to assume that the debate has developed since the OP?

KB - who has time or can be bothered?
But in that case why respond on the thread at all? Just to say KB woz 'ere?

Sometimes it's good to get your opinion in before reading everyone elses... particularly if like me, youre easily persuaded!

No Merrylegs, because you don't know who I am you should tell me to fucking get a grip for fucks sake.
Or something like that.

Some threads don't require this - like AIBU ones or ones asking a simple question. If they are really intelligent (such as in feminism), I read the whole thing but usually don't post because I don't have anything of value to add but I do go away a little better informed.

TCNY - what does TLDNR mean?

TLDNR...Too Long Did Not Read

HEHE

With OP highlighting I do generally read all of what the OP has said.

But as Mssoul says, if there is a simple question sometimes I like to give a simple answer.

It depends on the length of the thread...300+ posts would be a bit unreasonable..though it should definitely be speed read.

It winds me up when there's been less than 1 page full of replies and someone comes in and says "I haven't read the whole thread but..."

YABU sometimes a thread goes on for page after page and has totally gone off point. I find it refreshing when someone comes in and actually answers the original post. I also like it when you get two or three irrelevant conversations crossing over after days and days of posting though.

YABU. Sometimes there are hundreds of posts and half of them are people up on their usual hobby horse and taking over the thread. I do always read the last few threads though to see if my comment will be still relevant and the OP hasn't revealed halfway through the thread that she is actually an axe murderer.

Sorry, I read the last few POSTS.

cant be arsed

TCNY

THREAD POLICE ALERT! (yet another one )

YABU.

Sometimes I prefer to respond directly to the OP. Some times I haven't got time to read 250 posts. Soemtimes what other people write is really fucking dull.

I have only read your OP, btw.

Guilty! Im going to start reading all the OP's post before posting, there really is no need to read others opinions, only the OP's answers.

But mostly all the middle pages are two or three people shouting the same things at each other over and over.
I'd rather say something inane and unhelpful at whatever point I wonder by.

Not necessarily. There are some posters who just keep on and on making the same points on the same thread. It's boring and tedious to me having to trawl through them.

That doesn't mean that I don't make a twit of myself jumping in at the end... like a drunken loon...

What really ticks me off though is being told to 'read the thread', I mostly do read them and it's mostly the most fervent posters who say it because they can't fathom why somebody isn't agreeing with them and they just won't have it.