In thinking that many posters vote in threads they don't participate in?

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Inspired by the "visible thanks" debate thread.

I frequently vote in polls on threads I don't actively participate in. Many of my notifications are about final poll results. I go to these threads and realise I haven't posted a single reply. Even when I go back after the poll closes, I just check the results without posting anything.

Is this unusual?

YABU - The polls and/or notifications of final poll results prompt me to make a reply to the thread most of the time

YANBU - I vote in most polls without actively participating in the discussion

Laughing at the 6% saying they don’t vote without participating and then… not participating (or am I the joker for doing the opposite?)

I sometimes click on a thread and take part in the vote but don’t post on the thread.
If I get an email with the poll results, I just delete it. It wouldn’t make me go back and post on the thread

I can't vote on my phone so am the other way round

Obviously not. There's 4 replies to this, but over 30 votes. You can see the number of votes on every poll.

I might vote but not comment because I haven't got anything to say that hasn't already been said by previous posters. Threads where lots of people just say 'This!' or don't say anything new are tedious to scroll through.

I don't vote at all, even those I've posted in or feel invested in.

I might vote, then by the time I've read through to the end- they already have an answer, so I don't bother adding a comment.

I recently found I was being thanked for posts, and when I checked, that person never added a comment on the actual post. Maybe 5 of my posts a day were thanked by this same person, yet never a comment from them. I contacted MNHQ, as assumed they were a troll. They apparently aren't, but people also thank others posts, without adding comments too.

Yeah of course, all the time. I thank without posting too. I would've thought most people do. And I would guess even more read without voting, thanking or posting. I think some people don't understand how big MN is.

There's no point repeating what others have already posted. Sometimes it's a simple question that doesn't require a comment. I don't get notifications of Poll results.

I have turned off poll results emails. Sometimes will vote and not participate as the OP is so obviously unreasonable (to me) I'd have to respond in a manner that would be ruder than I'd like.

Yeah, I either quote posters or I thank them, but I don't think I've ever done both.

I often thank posts on threads without commenting, if the poster has said what I would have said. No point saying it again. I sometimes vote without commenting too.

I have email notifications turned off so don't see poll results.

I vote on threads and often don't post anything
Some threads I comment on but don't vote- if the OP hasn't been clear enough about what a vote either way actually means or if I really don't think my view point coincides with either of the sides in the vote.
As regards the thanks button:I dont see why you think it's necessary to comment on a post you've thanked.

They participate by voting.

I’ll vote if it interests me, give thanks if I agree with a post ( not just an OP) and I may or may not comment. I don’t really have a consistent approach 😆

Yeah it’s interesting, theres been a few where if you only read the comments you would think opinion is very much one way but the poll results display the exact opposite. I sometimes just vote because I have nothing to say.

I often vote YABU if I think the thread is a load of bollocks troll thread.

I often thank in place of an answer. It means the poster has expressed my opinion well, so I don't need to.

Sometimes I'll read the OP, vote, then read the rest of the thread and see that my opinion has been voiced a dozen times over and so there's no point in saying the same thing. Or it's that the thread has gone in a direction that I've got no real interest in participating in.