Your Formula for replying to threads.

[Verzin]

Mine is usually something like this.

1: see thread.
2. read thread.
3. make bad joke and/or poorly thought out comment.
4. Spend large amount of time apologizing and correcting myself.
5. Feel embarrassed.

What is your formula for replies if you have one?

 

[Suicidejim]

I read the thread, type out a polite reply, and then finish with an insult, just for the sake of it.

. . . you bastard.

 

[Sixcess]

50% one or two lines of mild liking or disliking, snark or attempted witticisms
40% thoughtful discussion
10% incoherent rage

 

[BloatedGuppy]

1. Look for new, interesting thread with few replies, or large, controversial thread with raging debate.

2. Attempt to /thread with carefully worded, pseudo-intellectual proclamation.

3. Never succeed.

 

[Esotera]

I open up three tabs for R&P, Gaming, and Off-Topic, and read all the new threads since last time that are still under a page long (contributing to threads any longer than this is usually pointless, as my opinion has been said, or it'll just get buried).

Asides from that there's no formula.

 

[Queen Michael]

Try to write an intelligent reply, unless there's an opportunity to use my trademark phrase "One word: Batman." in which case I write that.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Write what I think on the topic, most likely in a humorous manner, maybe in addition, write something slightly off topic.

Proceed to get replies to the slightly off topic statement.

Reply to those statements, veering further off topic.

Thread gets derailed.

Chaos ensues.

 

[PsychicTaco115]

There is no "rule."

Sticking to a pattern is boring.

I just type whatever sounds funny.

Usually works

 

[ReadyAmyFire]

Read thread.
Read comments.
Type reply.
Delete reply because it's stupid, I realised I don't care, or I don't feel like getting into a drawn out discussion on the subject.

 

[Scarim Coral]

1- See a thread.
2- Decide wheather or not to click on it, I will click on it either out of interests or read more on it.
3- Read Op and comments on it already
4- If I have something to type then I begin to type.

 

[Rylot]

1. Look for new, interesting thread with few replies, or large, controversial thread with raging debate.

2. Attempt to /thread with carefully worded, pseudo-intellectual proclamation.

3. Never succeed.

4. ???
5. Profit!


Sorry. I've been up since before 3 this morning. Anyway, I usually look for lower posted on threads and add my two cents. I don't really feel like reading through multiple pages for an argument I'll forget about in twenty minutes. Scary Thread and other threads that I keep track of are the exception.

 

[Thespian]

Procedure:
1. Scan the OP for any restrictions, requirements or the like.
2. Read the OP. Skim if it's long/droney.
3. Check the first and last page to see if there's anyone who said what I'm about to say.
4. If I found anything I disagreed with in those pages, alert the internet, for I have found a differing opinion.
5. State my opinions or argument in a calm or not very calm manner depending on whether or not I am in heavy opposition to something.
6. Make a joke that isn't very funny.
7. Keep typing for too long so that the post becomes rambly and uninteresting.
8. Return to Escapist homepage and await reply in stolid terror.

If there's no reply:
Assume my post contributed nothing and further wasted precious seconds of my life. Then store this insecurity deep, deep down so that it can erupt at some point and cause a mid life crisis.

If there is a reply: Click on the notification with trembling hands as my brain conjures up the worst possible theories as to what sort of reply it is. I fear it's either a belligerent, argumentative one or that perhaps I made an enormous logistic or grammatical mistake and am about to become ridiculed for it.

 

[burningdragoon]

More often then not probably something like this:

1. Read thread
2. Start typing out a reply. Reply content will vary from attempting to be smart to attempting to be stupid
3. Decide I don't actually like my reply and hit the back or topic index button

...ah, screw it

 

[Wushu Panda]

1. see a thread
2. read OP and decide if person is a dumbass or not
3. read down and decide if those replying are indeed dumbasses themselves
4. decide who are the biggest dumbasses, quote them, call them out for being a dumbass
5. get reported by Mods telling me i cant just post the truth because some people are sensitive about the truth
6. repeat steps 1-4, use more creative terms in post to disguise the fact i am calling people a dumbass

this is generally how its been on these forums. despite the vast amount of knowledge readily available to people, there are vast numerous instances of people creating/replying to threads who still talk out of their ass. or create polls that are instantly pointless because they feel the need to add a 'bacon' option.

once in a while i find a decent thread. but more often than not im compelled to reach through the internets and throttle the stupidity out of people.

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

Procedure:
1. Scan the OP for any restrictions, requirements or the like.
2. Read the OP. Skim if it's long/droney.
3. Check the first and last page to see if there's anyone who said what I'm about to say.
4. If I found anything I disagreed with in those pages, alert the internet, for I have found a differing opinion.
5. State my opinions or argument in a calm or not very calm manner depending on whether or not I am in heavy opposition to something.
6. Make a joke that isn't very funny.
7. Keep typing for too long so that the post becomes rambly and uninteresting.
8. Return to Escapist homepage and await reply in stolid terror.

If there's no reply:
Assume my post contributed nothing and further wasted precious seconds of my life. Then store this insecurity deep, deep down so that it can erupt at some point and cause a mid life crisis.

If there is a reply: Click on the notification with trembling hands as my brain conjures up the worst possible theories as to what sort of reply it is. I fear it's either a belligerent, argumentative one or that perhaps I made an enormous logistic or grammatical mistake and am about to become ridiculed for it.

Add Step 3a: Realize if I had a coherent or (presumably) intelligent thing to say that I have already been ninja'd.

Just like this!

 

[SckizoBoy]

I open up three tabs for R&P, Gaming, and Off-Topic, and read all the new threads since last time that are still under a page long (contributing to threads any longer than this is usually pointless, as my opinion has been said, or it'll just get buried).

Asides from that there's no formula.

Replace R&P with Adv and that's basically me... I only really reply to 1+ pages long threads if I have something meaningful to reply with to a comment that catches my attention. Or if I just want to rib my friends.

*shrug*

Delete reply because it's stupid, I realised I don't care, or I don't feel like getting into a drawn out discussion on the subject.

You and me both... how I got Neo's beyond me... too much Forum Games, probably...

 

[Hazy992]

10% luck

20% skill

15% concentrated power of will

5% pleasure

50% pain

And 100% reason to remember the name!



OT: Either try and find a new thread with no or not many replies, or one where I can easily jump into an ongoing discussion, try and think of something witty, fail. Rinse and repeat

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Either:

- Type out verbose, meandering, barely coherent post that no-one will acknowledge and ruminate on how much time I just wasted.
- Begin to type out verbose, meandering, barely coherent post, then delete it halfway through because I'm an overly self-conscious fuckwit. Then ruminate on how much time I just wasted.
- Indulge in drunken, self-loathing spiel that contributes nothing and will be rightfully ignored.
- Laconically offer opinion in one sentence without expansion or explanation on why I hold that viewpoint.
- Make lame joke.
- Quote someone just so I can say something to the effect of 'this'.