yeah i was expecting some evil tricks inside the op to track down people not reading the op too. I sometimes don't read the whole op, basically when they start repeating or it goes into nonsense mode that just isn't true but they try to create data to proof it is. But generally i will add then that i didn't read the whole op. When it comes to to many pages, i read the first and the last 3+ ones. Often enough things are already stated out multiple times so i actually don't have to post.
I consider myself a spammer girly anyway.

Sokalo

United States375 Posts

September 28 2011 12:05 GMT

#43

If it's a thread I'm interested enough to post in I'm sure as hell going to have read the OP. If the discussion is already lengthy I will skim through the responses and try to catch the beefy parts of the conversation happening, as well as reading the first 2-3 pages and last 2-3 pages before I even considering posting something. This just as a bare minimum.

I think that the last thing to survive me will probably whatever digital records I have and this is one of the few that I have any control over. I'd hate to leave the world nothing but some half-assed posts if I can help it. It's also just common courtesy to keep the verbal incontinence under control.

Cr4zyH0r5e

Peru1308 Posts

September 28 2011 12:07 GMT

#44

I read the OP and read random posts at random pages in the thread to check for updates/changes in the discussion/already answered questions.

Half of the time someone already posted what I was gonna say, or the thread got horribly derailed. The other half I'm informing myself before making a stupid post. This time, however, my laptop is about to die at the library, so I took the liberty to merely skim the OP. I'm feel like such a REBEL!

DisaFear

Australia4074 Posts

September 28 2011 12:24 GMT

#45

I sometimes read the whole Op before posting, if it is interesting (like eSports drama!)

Iyerbeth

England2410 Posts

September 28 2011 12:31 GMT

#46

Any thread I post in I'll read at least the OP and the last 5-10 pages of discussion just because if I'm engaging in an online discussion it makes sense to actually know what the discussion is.

MarKeD

Australia183 Posts

September 28 2011 12:37 GMT

#47

I was hoping you had like a 30 page essay in the OP about this just for the irony.

sVnteen

Germany2238 Posts

September 28 2011 12:54 GMT

#48

On September 28 2011 19:45 XXGeneration wrote:

Poll: How many pages do you read through before posting?

6+ (48)

42%

2 (28)

24%

1 (16)

14%

3 (13)

11%

4 (8)

7%

5 (2)

2%

115 total votes

Your vote: How many pages do you read through before posting?

(Vote): 1
(Vote): 2
(Vote): 3
(Vote): 4
(Vote): 5
(Vote): 6+

I think a better question is how many pages do you read through before posting?

u should make a poll on every page to see that

also i dont always read the whole op for example this one that we have here

just vote in the poll read the first page and the last an then post something

Sbrubbles

Brazil5774 Posts

September 28 2011 13:51 GMT

#49

On September 28 2011 19:45 XXGeneration wrote:

Poll: How many pages do you read through before posting?

6+ (48)

42%

2 (28)

24%

1 (16)

14%

3 (13)

11%

4 (8)

7%

5 (2)

2%

115 total votes

Your vote: How many pages do you read through before posting?

(Vote): 1
(Vote): 2
(Vote): 3
(Vote): 4
(Vote): 5
(Vote): 6+

I think a better question is how many pages do you read through before posting?

2. The first and the last page. Usually anyway.

57 Corvette

Canada5941 Posts

September 28 2011 14:36 GMT

#50

Most of the time I read the first page, last page, post, then look through the 2nd last, 3rd last etc

kef

283 Posts

September 28 2011 14:42 GMT

#51

Yeah if the OP is poorly written I usually don't even bother to post, unless it's a sensitive topic

Zorkmid

4410 Posts

September 28 2011 14:43 GMT

#52

I don't read the long winded ones. I'll check the graphs or polls or whatever. I might read a whole one if the OP can write a lick. It's rare though.

Nizaris

Belgium2230 Posts

September 28 2011 14:46 GMT

#53

After getting banned once for missing something in the OP ya i do

Grettin

42381 Posts

September 28 2011 14:49 GMT

#54

Depends. If the subject is interesting then yes. If it's not, i might not read the OP completely or at all and thus usually wont post anything.

But usually i read it.

Mentalizor

Denmark1596 Posts

September 28 2011 14:53 GMT

#55

I dont always post... But when I do... I get warned for not writing anything on topic

User was temp banned for this post.

DerBeefman

Germany226 Posts

September 28 2011 15:01 GMT

#56

If I'm posting, I always read the whole op and mostly the first and the last replies, too get informed about current discussion in the thread etc. but sometimes it's kinda annoying to read the full op whether it be really long or not well written (for example useless stuff in it).
But if I'm not going to post, I'm just reading the most important things of it.

Kimaker

United States2131 Posts

September 28 2011 15:11 GMT

#57

On September 28 2011 19:45 XXGeneration wrote:

Poll: How many pages do you read through before posting?

6+ (48)

42%

2 (28)

24%

1 (16)

14%

3 (13)

11%

4 (8)

7%

5 (2)

2%

115 total votes

Your vote: How many pages do you read through before posting?

(Vote): 1
(Vote): 2
(Vote): 3
(Vote): 4
(Vote): 5
(Vote): 6+

I think a better question is how many pages do you read through before posting?

Liars. If that was the case we'd scarcely get past page 5 ever xD

R0YAL

United States1768 Posts

September 28 2011 15:14 GMT

#58

I do unless theres a poll and then I just vote.
+ Show Spoiler +

Jk if i intend
to post 95% of the time I read the entire OP.

Eatme

Switzerland3919 Posts

September 28 2011 15:14 GMT

#59

I try to read the whole thread when I post and the last couple of years that has been very hard here on TL. I see a interesting thread and it has 16pages already. Usually I dont bother to post in that thread since I cant read up. When I joined and the first couple of years you could post in all interesting threads since they were not 3pages an hour.
Now I feel that a clear minority read more than first and last page and then repeats the same thing that has been said over and over.
Made a thread a while ago that I felt people kinda derailed the focus on so I even made a bold part in my OP but it did not help. I also tried to steer the conversation in my posts but very few people seemed to read them. More than half of the posts was just stating opinion on the issue and not really discussing anything.
Another time I gave good advice in a thread, advice that I gave years earlier and alot of pople agreed with me on. The op missunderstood my advice and called me out, I wrote a post about my reasoning and that was the last post in the thread, I assume the op didnt even read it.