How long does a thread have to be before you just post to it without reading all the way through it?

[dderidex]

As above. With some of these threads....REALLY gotta wonder....

 

[exilera]

I didn't read your poll, but I'm posting anyway.

 

[isasir]

I didn't read your post, but I'm polling anyway.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: exilera
I didn't read your poll, but I'm posting anyway.

Shens!

 

[FoBoT]

your pole is too long

 

[Crono]

jsut about as long as your poll, give or take a couple of lines

 

[tm37]

Until I get bo0red

 

[Rock Hydra]

This long:
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(Not to scale)

 

[exilera]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: exilera
I didn't read your poll, but I'm posting anyway.

Shens!

REPOST

 

[dullard]

99.99% of the time, if there are more than 50 posts, I won't ever open the thread. Thus I almost always read the whole thread.

In the very rare cases I do open a thread that long, I try to read them all. But if I just don't have time and the answer is needed quickly, I'll say in my post that I didn't read the thread.

And your poll is useless since everyone can change the number of posts per page. Thus, you really should go by number of posts and not the number of pages.

 

[CRXican]

this long

 

[KarenMarie]

read the first post. read most of the other posts... ignore posts by known idiots... skim some... post.

 

[jagec]

I usually read the first 5-6 pages of any given thread. If it's interesting, I might actually read the whole thing before posting. If I see a particular post I feel like commenting on, I'll open a Reply box but won't actually submit it until I read some more.

 

[dderidex]

Originally posted by: dullard
And your poll is useless since everyone can change the number of posts per page. Thus, you really should go by number of posts and not the number of pages.

Maybe, but how many people DO?

On other forums (Futuremark springs to mind), you pretty much HAVE to...but AT seems to have a fairly reasonable default value for that.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: dderidex
Maybe, but how many people DO?

On other forums (Futuremark springs to mind), you pretty much HAVE to...but AT seems to have a fairly reasonable default value for that.

Create another poll. I was under the impression that a slight majority had changed them, but maybe that number has changed as AT changed over the years.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

honestly, i couldnt even get through your whole title... i just read the first few words and assumed the rest

reading doesn't up your post count, ya know?

 

[Demo24]

I had to read your thread title 5 times to understand it, so I didnt read your post

 

[dderidex]

Originally posted by: DEMO24
I had to read your thread title 5 times to understand it, so I didnt read your post

But, did you poal, anyway?

 

[gooseman]

Longer than this one is destined to make it.

 

[dighn]

longer than 1 page and i'll just skim through the posts

if the thread is longer than 5 pages or so, i don't post in it at all b/c whatever i say has probably been said and will get buried when the thread goes longer.


*assuming 50 post pages

 

[datalink7]

What kind of pages? My pages are 100 posts long.

 

[rezinn]

If a thread has more than 100 posts or whatever I don't feel like catching up on, I won't even open it. However, if it keeps coming up I will eventually open it and see what the poster is talking about. But I'll skip 90% of the other posts.