@midsomermurderess
I think also people less and less engage with threads. It's merely an opportunity to have your say. Never mind that it has become clear something is a wind up, the poster has long since buggered off, or the 50 posts above yours have said to the letter the same thing. It's increasingly just, 'I must have my say'. It's all that matters. A click on all or the next of the OP's posts would provide some context, but why bother.
Yeah, this. Don’t bother reading the thread, either to understand the question better, or to get context, or to see whether the OP has changed her position, or to check whether your freshly minted piece of wisdom has already been contributed 500 times. No, have YOUR say, because that is what matters.
There’s a different thread from an OP whose neighbours are climbing the wall into her garden when she is at work. The sheer number of posts telling her to ‘borrow a fierce dog to scare them off’. Many, many posters throughout the thread have explained that it is a bad idea for many reasons. Still, the same piece of advice keeps coming.