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For me, I look at the forum and find threads that are of interest to me. I don’t (can’t find the time) to read a long long list of pages for a thread that isn’t a subject that interests me, thus I tend to look at the first post and maybe the last page of the thread. Then add my two cents if it’s something that I want to comment on.
Some threads are simply too time consuming unless they’re special.
Funny you should ask, Laura. When I have plenty of time to kill and I'm on CD I'll scan all the topics I'm interested. If I find a title that looks interesting, and has a ton of pages, I'll read the last page and if that interests me I'll go a few pages back. Then if I'm really interested, I'll go to the first page and start reading forward. Usually by the tenth page or so I get bored and quit reading.
I can only think of a couple threads that I've stuck out, saved, and went back too. They almost always are humorous ones, not serious ones. The one that comes to mind, was one in the Alaska forum a few years back when some guy had everyone up in arms because of the crazy way he wanted to live in the wild in Alaska. He wanted all his supplies dropped out of a plane tied on to a large pallet. Wish I could find it, I'd like to read it again.
If you happen upon a City Data thread, in any forum, with a lot of pages, do you:
Think you already posted to it or know you already posted to it but don't want to go through all of the pages to find out what you said?
You can tell if you posted on a thread by looking at the envelope icon on the far left. If there's an arrow on it, you have posted in it. If you hover over the arrow, it will tell you how many times you've posted in the thread and when your latest post was.
I did that once on the Answer with the title of a song thread-- Yikes!
You can tell if you posted on a thread by looking at the envelope icon on the far left. If there's an arrow on it, you have posted in it. If you hover over the arrow, it will tell you how many times you've posted in the thread and when your latest post was.
If you want to actually find that post more quickly than scanning through dozens of pages, instead of hovering your mouse over the envelope with the bent arrow on the left-hand side of the screen, look at the right-hand side of the screen at the field that shows how many total replies were made in the post. If you look closely, you'll see that it's a link. If you click on that number, a window will open up with the names of everyone who has posted in that thread, and the number of posts that each of them made. In that window, once you locate your own user-name, click on the number again (this time the number of posts you made), and those posts will be displayed in a search format mode, so you can go directly to any of them you wish.
In answer to the OP's question, it depends on the topic, who's replying, and the tone of the conversation. Threads that degenerate into sniping or backbiting get ignored, likewise threads that are trite and irrelevant or otherwise a waste of time. There are a few threads, though, that will capture and hold me for as long as it takes to read through every post on every page.
You can tell if you posted on a thread by looking at the envelope icon on the far left. If there's an arrow on it, you have posted in it. If you hover over the arrow, it will tell you how many times you've posted in the thread and when your latest post was.
I did that once on the Answer with the title of a song thread-- Yikes!
I click on the number of responses to a thread and get the same info but when I see 10 pages, I don't want read through the 10 pages to find out what I said or when I said it or if anyone else said what I want to say. I just quit.
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Originally Posted by LauraC
If you happen upon a City Data thread, in any forum, with a lot of pages, do you:
Dive in without reading other posts?
Think you already posted to it or know you already posted to it but don't want to go through all of the pages to find out what you said?
Think you are too late to the conversation and don't bother?
Start reading all of it?
Something else?
How many pages is your tolerance for jumping into a thread?
Depends upon the subject matter ... If the thread is about a topic that is engaging, I'll read the whole darned thing but often start posting responses as I see them before reading the entire thing. If its a topic that moderately appeals to me, I'll read some at the beginning then jump to the more recent posts. It really depends.
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Yikes!
