Why reply without reading the thread???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm replying right now based only on the title. And I'm guessing I disagree with whatever you posted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I understand your frustration, but think you’re being unreasonable.

If you start a thread and ask for advice or opinions, I may have something potentially helpful to say, that I’m happy to type out. But reading 8 pages of other people’s advice or opinions on this matter isn’t interesting to me. So I type out and submit my answer. If that answer is unhelpful to you because it doesn’t take into account your other posts, feel free to ignore.

But since this is obviously happening to you enough that you’re irritated - take that as a clue that you need to be more specific and clear, with all relevant details, in your initial post.

Agree.

[Anonymous]

If a OP posts a question, then the individual answers straight to the point are often as valuable or often mor then the discussion.

Those are two different entities.

Many people ask, they want answer. Some people just argue with other posters do not contribute much to the answer but to the length of the thread. Each answer can give the OP something and someone might provide the thing the OP is looking for or was hoping for. Sometimes ten or twenty pages of arguing brings nothing but one random direct answers does it.

[Anonymous]

Quick question OP.. Megan and Harry thread.. 400 pages plus...

Do you suppose every person who has something to say has to do the homework first?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. This is mainly a critique of the responses to other people's posts. And I don't think those OPs's posts are especially vague or poorly written. It's the responders who are the problem.

In your example, it sounds like you (OP) WERE the problem, which is why you had to post the second time to correct the misperception that 6 pages of people were left with after reading your original post.

When I post without reading the whole thread, it is because I do have advice that I think would help the OP, but don't have time to read through pages and pages of posts. (Or don't want/need advice about the issue under discussion.)

To each his own (use of DCUM).

[Anonymous]

Sometimes an OP wants advice or crowdsourcing as in “am I wrong to think...?.”. Getting multiple people with Same reasoning is sometimes helpful to draw the conclusion.... “Yes, you’re are. 30 responses and we all agree.”

[Anonymous]

Why? Because people quote ridiculously long posts to begin with and I'm reading on my phone. Because some are many pages long and I don't feel like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why? Because people quote ridiculously long posts to begin with and I'm reading on my phone. Because some are many pages long and I don't feel like it.

Right! I'm not reading through pages of quoted posts.

[Anonymous]

Because it be like that sometimes

[Anonymous]

Because I'm not interested in what other people have to say.

[Anonymous]

TL;DR

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand your frustration, but think you’re being unreasonable.

If you start a thread and ask for advice or opinions, I may have something potentially helpful to say, that I’m happy to type out. But reading 8 pages of other people’s advice or opinions on this matter isn’t interesting to me. So I type out and submit my answer. If that answer is unhelpful to you because it doesn’t take into account your other posts, feel free to ignore.

But since this is obviously happening to you enough that you’re irritated - take that as a clue that you need to be more specific and clear, with all relevant details, in your initial post.

Agree.

Yep.
Some threads I like and will follow through pages. Others I have an opinion about the OP but no desire to read through more than 2 or 3 pages so I figure OP will ignore my reply if they have what they need already.

[Anonymous]

I can understand people not following every post in a huge thread. But yeah, they should at least read the OP. And if you’re not gonna read the whole thing then you have no ground to say “everyone here said ...”

[Anonymous]

Time. Usually the snarky responses aren't worth reading.

[Anonymous]

If six pages of posts all misconstrued your original post, I think you probably didn’t communicate your point well.