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?

Did someone mention cheese?

I'm starting to feel like a Victorian auntie with my overblown netiquette, will start wandering from thread to thread posting indiscriminately like a shouty bag lady from now on

Well, I haven't read the whole thread but I think you're all a bunch of numpties for not agreeing with me!

What's that, you say? You couldn't find my opinion/what I was saying? Well, maybe if you'd actually read the whole thread, you'd know where I'm coming from!!!

Maybe people don't care about anyone else's opinions? MN seems to be more of a 'platform' than a community.

How do you highlight all OP's posts?

It depends really. If the OP is asking an opinion on something and I feel I'd like to give mine then I will. I don't always feel the need to read everyone else's opinion on the same question before giving mine. I do usually read the whole thread but sometimes they're just too long.

err maybe people do it because they are responding to the OP, or because like many of us with small children we often dont have the TIME to sit and read a whole thread, particularly if it is pages and pages long!