To think people should read a whole thread before posting?

[camerondiazepam]

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?

YABU, I haven't read the whole thread but you should definitely divorce him and call the police.

If the title of the thread and the opening post interests me, but there are 120 intervening posts you can be fairly sure that many of them are by a couple of posters having a bilateral argument or someone who has misunderstood the OP and is going on and on irrelevantly. Therefore I would normally just do a quick read of some of the posts and then make my own comment.

Yawn!!! This is a forum FFS not homework. YABU.

What Freudian said. Most MNers are busy and don't have all afternoon to read 300 posts before writing a couple of lines in reply. Its supposed to fun and/or voluntary, not a monitored comprehension exercise.

HNRT

I think it could be helpful especially on long threads to have a standard acronym (eg Have Not Read the Thread HNRT)

Or NIORTWFT

No intention of reading the whole fucking thread

OP, of course I'm assuming you have read all 50,000 AIBU threads with approx 5 million posts prior to forming this conclusion .......

Or did you just sample a small percentage ? :o:o

OMG I didn't realise we have the wine emoticon.

That's fantastic!

When did we get that?

Can't be bothered reading the thread but am happy to go off on a tangent.

But just also realised that the pombear is gone! When did that happen???

READ THE THREAD!

Well actually read the Wine anyone thread. We're all well hammered on there by now.

So the pombear is still there - but hidden [like a secret code]? [pombear]

I try and read a whole thread bit if it's huge I tend to just skim. If it's really big it tends to just be loads of people saying the same thing over and over anyway.

Or

Found it!!! Yay, more now.

I very rarely comment for the first time on anything that is more than 4 pages long because I can't be bothered reading it all.

well yes you're probably right but hell, life's too short sometimes so actually, YABU

Tut tut this is an untidy thread best get my duster out dearies

Depends on the thread. If it's something like "What's for dinner" then I probably wouldn't read everyone else's dinner menus first. But if it was something likely to develop into a discussion I would, at the very least, skim-read it to get some idea of how the thread was going.

Although sometimes I do think it would be fun to answer thread titles with something, short, sweet and totally unconsidered. E.g. "Find me a pair of shoes" and posting link to first pair of shoes I could find, without reading OP to find out what poster was looking for . Disclaimer - am tempted but haven't actually done this!