Community Chat

[september]

10-12 posts? it takes all of 30 seconds to read that #, unless some of the responses are quite long.

I'll read the longer threads if the topic is interesting to me, or if I'm thinking of responding. I don't want to be repetitive, and say almost the same thing that someone else has already said.

[AuntG]

My writing skills aren't that great so I keep my answers to a couple of sentences, but yes, I do read some of the longer posts. Some posters give a provide a lot of background and information which I'm not going to ignore (although I might skim through parts).

[GCR18]

It depends. If the posts are different posters with a little give and take, then yes. If it's a group fighting over who's opinion is right, then I move along.

[colliegirls]

I may read long threads but not a very long post.

[beanie]

no...

[chickenbutt]

Sometimes I do but often if I've been in a thread before and it got really long (i.e. I'm way behind), I don't go back. If it has posts that are all bolded, all caps, or giant paragraphs I have to stay away. That makes my eyeballs hurt. Don't even get me started on the ones who don't know basic sentence structure and posts are always one giant sentence, with a bunch of dots every few words.

BUT, if I don't read it all I won't post. Nothing worse than people who cannot be bothered to read what everybody else has to say yet they will post in the thread, as though nothing anybody else says matters - only what they have to say.

[kittymomNC]

It irritates me to be involved in a thread which has gotten quite long and involved, and then someone either posts what has already been said several times (and it's obvious they haven't read it), or the thread has evolved and changed (but still on the subject) and someone posts something that, at that point, makes no sense at all because they haven't read or kept up with the evolution of the thread. I don't mean the kind that winds up with posters just arguing back and forth.

If I see a post that already has a lot of replies but that interests me, I will read the first 10 or 12 posts, then go to the end to get a sense of where things are...If I decide I want to post something, then I go back and skim and read the whole thing so I don't wind up saying something stupid!

[LurkyLoo]

There is one lovely ongoing chat thread here in AF that I keep up with. Otherwise, if the subject is of interest or amusing, I'll try to read the longer topic discussions. If it dissolves into bloviating or quarreling, I click out of it in a hurry. No patience for either.

[adoreqvc]

Yes I do enjoy reading threads long or short, provided there are paragraphs properly inserted, so it is not one large long endless post.

That would be too taxing for the eyes.