...to get narked when people don't read the thread first?

[Bassett22]

Happens all the time on the more popular threads. Once there's >25 replies people just read the OP, then reply. More often than not they're just repeating the same thing half a dozen people have said before, and it gets stuck in an eternal loop.

Just read what others have put first!

I feel this is Tech's fault for only giving us the last 5 replies in 'Threads I'm on'.

This thread isn't nearly long enough not to read.

More posts needed, so they can be ignored!

So to answer somebody's initial AIBU I have to find time to read 13 pages of comments first? And to start a thread in the first place I have to do an extensive search of the site first to check that nobody has ever asked the same question before?

Sorry if somebody already asked these, I didn't have time to do either of the above.

Sometimes I just can't be arse reading all the posts on a thread if it's loads of pages. True story.

How about threads that are started over a topic that's already been covered (fairly sure I've read this complaint in another thread about 2 years ago), should everyone read all the threads ever created before posting a new one?

Agree, and people who start a thread that is similar to others started in the last, um, 12 days should be dragged out and shot.

If the thread has hundreds of replies, I'll just read the OP's posts (I have them highlighted) and occasionally skim read what others say.

I just don't have time to read hundreds of replies, especially as the replies can sometimes be very long.

YABU - sometimes 'popular' threads can end up with 25 pages, not 25 posts. Am I really expected to read all that before being 'allowed' to post my opinion?

And no I haven't read all 31 replies so there.

What new thing where the OP's posts are highlighted?
This forum is moving too fast for me. When I first joined there were only 3 emoticums. Slight exaggeration )

Naughty MooMooFarm.

I read the twice.

I only get narked if someone is being attacked by respondents who haven't read their posts properly.

It's on customise missorinoc

Ah. Thankyou.

how do you highlight all the OP's posts then? That sounds fab. Someone, please??

(and sorry, I know I'm just repeating what missorinoco already said...)

haha and then that happens, you spend so long writing a post someone has already answered

It's on customise redstripeyelephant

thankyou, I am now sporting a rather fetching lavender blush

It's on customise redstripeyelephant

I skim through and read the OPs posts. And maybe glance back at the individual posts they reply to.

Often the OP's subsequent posts can throw a new light on a situation.

Baroque, being able to do a poll is a good idea. On other forums you can vote and have the option of commenting as well. So if people just want to say YANBU, YABU they could vote without adding a comment. Typically, the number of votes out weighs the number of posts.

I read the first page usually, then the last page to see if there has been a massive bunfight. Then i decide if I want to reply or not.

That said, i get MIGHTY annoyed if I have laid down pearls of wisdom (WISDOM I tell you!) and it is clear that SOME OTHER posters have missed it - due to - ahem- reading just the Op or the last page. Grrr.

[where's a decent double standards emoticon when you need it?]

Has no-one cottoned on that MN is just one vast motherfucking goldfish-bowl with Boden adverts ?

Threads come, threads go. Ditto posts.

They're all the same! ALL.:o
Just distorted by the undulating prism of the bowl.

CUMFY once again I'm agreeing with you

I mean we get one of these "why don't people read all the thread" threads a week right?

And all the same replies

You're all wrong. Except for those of you that are right.

No, I'm not going to tell you who is who - read them back and work it out yourself.

(PS no cumfy it's Fred not Bertie)