How to cope with LONG postings?

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i’m perplexed when confronted with 80 to 400+ replys
to a posting. Even if i’m interested or made a reply I just
move on cuz I figure all that matters has been said &
i’m not gonna spend 45 min wading thru it.
 
Skip to the end mostly? Maybe do a little looking over as you scroll down?
 
The problem is that if you add to a thread with 300 posts without reading them, you’re probably saying something that has already been said a dozen times OR the thread has moved in a different direction so your message has nothing to do with the current conversation.

I tend not to start reading something with more messages than I want to deal with. Most likely the topic will come up again and I can participate then if I am interested.
 
The reason it’s 400 responses long is because when it was 300 responses long people skipped to the end and ended up repeating what had been said 🙂
 
Yes. I can’t stand it when someone feels they have to repeat the same advice already given. Like it doesn’t “count” until they say it!

I try to get in on a thread early…LOL
 
we’ve confirmed then, at or near the beginning is the
way 2go
 
LOL

BY the time it hits 30 posts, I’m retty well done.
Everything has been said by then and the OP sometimes is angry to boot! 🤣🤣🤣
 
If the post is a personally interesting subject, I might skim through a long post, but most of the time anything I would add has already been stated several times.
 
Sometimes the twists and turns of a thread do allow meaningful contributions later on in a thread. However, I’d tend to agree that getting in early works.

Unless your goal is simply to make noise. That goal seems to be the prefered M.O. of a lot of posters, though.
 
If you find more than 10-15 unread replies,it means you were not seriously following it from the beginning.The best policy in such cases is to see only the last 10 postings which will reflect the direction in which the matter is progressing and on which only you are now required to post if you are very particular to do so.Otherwise,just leave it keeping it in mind that nobody is eagerly waiting to know what you have to say on the issue.😂
 
If the subject interests you, why not read all the posts slowly and carefully? You don’t have to post anything; just study how people start misunderstanding each other almost immediately. It’s like the old game of “telephone.” Then ask yourself why a simple question requires 300 posts. Everybody has a bit of the truth, just like the old story about the elephant. Eleven blind man try to figure out what an elephant is by touching a different part of it. Each has a bit of the truth, but nobody has the whole truth. That’s how it is on this forum.
 
I try not to get involved with threads that are too big. There’s just too much to reply too, and they often go off-topic to tangential things.
 
Dan123 said:
The reason it’s 400 responses long is because when it was 300 responses long people skipped to the end and ended up repeating what had been said 🙂
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And 299 of those posts was just two posters having a flame war with each other. 😁
 
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