Do you respond to a thread without reading the OP?

[tomspug]

I see people do this, and I wonder if I also do it, involuntarily, depending on the topic... Why do you think you do it, if you do?

I can't think of instances off the top of my head. But practically every thread I create has a handful of posts that seem to only respond to the thread title and not the contents of the original post. I can only assume that everyone must do this sometimes...

 

[stacey bo bacey]

I don't know if I've done it but I'm sure I have...

 

[tomspug]

a;LL. YHR YIMR ZI respind to a thread without reading the oP. I just read the titel fo the tread, and the n respodn. I am so stuepind.

I'm convinced you're smashed. Have you been in the booze tonight? If it's true, give me frubals, you drunk lady!

 

[tomspug]

This is the most hilarious thread ever!

(P.S. please don't die)

 

[Sunstone]

I can't think of instances off the top of my head. But practically every thread I create has a handful of posts that seem to only respond to the thread title and not the contents of the original post.

I've noticed the same thing.

 

[texan1]

This is the most hilarious thread ever!

(P.S. please don't die)

It is? Maybe I should go back and read the OP.

 

[mrscardero]

Join in the game!



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Oh...right. The OP. Ummmm...yeah. What were we talking about?

 

[Dream Angel]

I usually do, but it is interesting to see the amount of people who do not. You can tell as sometimes the questions I ask are me playing devils advocate, they are not necessarily what I believe which I try to explain in the OPs but then you get people who just leave nasty messages at you who obviously have not read the OP.

 

[blackout]

Do you respond to a thread without reading the OP?

Sure.

Now, What is this thread about?

 

[doppelganger]

Linguine with clam sauce.

 

[Willamena]

I can't think of instances off the top of my head. But practically every thread I create has a handful of posts that seem to only respond to the thread title and not the contents of the original post. I can only assume that everyone must do this sometimes...

Sometimes the thread title is the more interesting bit.

 

[ChristineES]

Some threads are like a conversation. A conversation will twist around and while keeping the idea of the original subject will branch out and splinter into sub topics.

 

[DallasApple]

If its really really long..Somethimes I "skim it'..But usually I do read the OP..Somethimes though I don't watch the link or the video if its attached..Like the RIP baby P..I commented on that thread without reading the article linked..

I do however have a habit on threads I've been too..Or threads that are long..Reading them backwards..IOW..I read the last post and go up from there..

Love

Dallas

 

[Scuba Pete]

Often I find myself responding to some outrageous comment within the thread. Even then, I usually go back and read the comics, er the OP.

 

[misanthropic_clown]

I do however have a habit on threads I've been too..Or threads that are long..Reading them backwards..IOW..I read the last post and go up from there..

Ditto. Usually the thread move on from the OP, and so the most relevant part to the actual discussion going on is in the last few pages. Usually I read the OP just to ensure I am reading the thread in the right context, though.

 

[gnomon]

Personally I don't think we should allow nuns to run loose in the street.

 

[+Xausted]

Sometimes thew OP{ was so long ago it no longer is really relevent to what is being discussed.
But then again if peopele are butchering your thread you just have to ask them to return to the OP and they generally will.

 

[idea]

I see people do this, and I wonder if I also do it, involuntarily, depending on the topic... Why do you think you do it, if you do?

I can't think of instances off the top of my head. But practically every thread I create has a handful of posts that seem to only respond to the thread title and not the contents of the original post. I can only assume that everyone must do this sometimes...

I thought you were going to put something crazy and strange in the OP for people to talk about - as a test to see who read this thread's OP and who did not - I think you should go back and edit your OP - tell people a specific thing to talk about, then see who does it...

 

[idea]

Personally I don't think we should allow nuns to run loose in the street.

I think we need more nuns not less!!!

How about a thread about who reads through all the comments before posting?

 

[3.14]

why would we wanna read other people's wrong opionion on the matter at hand when we perfectly know that only we know the real answer to your qeustions