Anyone else paranoid of huge threads?
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Pretty much what everyone else here has said. I'm rather reluctant to post in a thread even if its only up to two pages. Reason being is that after a certain point everything that can be said about a subject has been said and the odds are that my opinion is shared by someone else who's already posted.
Basically if I don't feel like I have something to add to the conversation I'll bypass posting.
Basically if I don't feel like I have something to add to the conversation I'll bypass posting.
Sometimes I'll comment on a quote train I find from skipping to the end (if it looks like it needs resolving/I want to support one of the people in it) but otherwise why bother? Chances are you've been ninja'd and no one will read your post.
Yes, I'll admit I do tend to stray far far away from the larger threads, just as I would stray from a game with many people. I'm just scared of large groups.
Wa hey! So it turns out I'm not just a truncated little bean.
Thanks for the input, lads. And possibly ladettes.
Thanks for the input, lads. And possibly ladettes.
Usually if there's a long thread about a topic that I find important I'll still reply, even if my post goes unnoticed at least I have expressed my feelings on the matter.
That said, I'd never go to the effort to make a mammoth sized post if hardly anyone was going to see it. To be fair though I do that even in small threads and not get noticed, it all depends on luck I guess.
That said, I'd never go to the effort to make a mammoth sized post if hardly anyone was going to see it. To be fair though I do that even in small threads and not get noticed, it all depends on luck I guess.
This should be our cruel and evil plan against the OP[footnote]No offense OP[/footnote]micky said:
OT: If something is more than 4 pages long and not one of those 'What's your favourite ...' threads I normally don't post.
Yeah, because then there'll be at least one long and complicated flame war.Biosophilogical said:
Flame war? It's not like I'm trying to initiate a mean-spirited argument or anything, I was just over-exaggerating a non-existant plan for the creation of hypocrisy-potential (what with some people saying "I never post on a thread *this* long" when the thread is *this+1* pages long). I wasn't actually going to do it nor was I intending it to be taken so seriously, so I do apologise for my poor wording but I'm being honest that I had no intention of starting a flame-war to any degree.Queen Michael said:
I read the entire thread if it's ~7-8 pages, beyond that I either miss it or read the first few pages and the last few pages. But if I do that, I don't think I have yet contributed, because someone in the middle has probably already made my point or I lose interest because it becomes so convoluted I can't care anymore.
Indeed, neither was it my intention to describe your words as one, so of course I apologize for any wording that might have led you to this erraneous conclusion, and I would like to add that perhaps my being a non-native English-spekaer may have contributed to that impression. Again, I apologize.Biosophilogical said:
Though I must add that I find it mildly humorous that due to our responses towards eachother we have contributed to the very thing I had no intention of actually doing (the "large-thread-against-large-threads" thing, not the flame-war thing).Queen Michael said:
Indeed, though I would add that since we are only on the second page, there is yet a chance for the thread to die in if not its infancy, then at least its childhood, as it were.Biosophilogical said:
I agree mostly with the OP, I'll only read through tens of pages when its something that really interests me. If it's a thread about how Nintendo basically keeps remaking Mario 64 or about how bears typically defecate in a forested area, I wont bother.