Do you...

[Stormborn]

read the first post before responding in a thread? Or do you just reply to whatever you think the comment/question is based on the Title, regardless of any elaboration the OP might make?

For example, a thread has the title "Is there a good setting that has vampire ducks?" but the OP says "Yes, I know about Ducksylvania. I mean other than that." Yet within three posts someone says "You want Ducksylvania."

Question the second: Do you read all the posts in a thread before making your reply? If not do you indicate that you have not?

Continuign example: Nine more people post and say "Why has not one mentioned Ducksylvania?"

Question the third: Why do I see this thread being overcome...errr, welcomed... by the hivemind?

 

[hafrogman]

Question the third: Why do I see this thread being overcome...errr, welcomed... by the hivemind?

Because in the vampire hall of fame (yeah!) there's not a vampire zanier than Duckula?

I personally read posts, but sometimes I skim. So if they said no to Ducksylvania in paragraph 5, I might have missed it. Sometimes one's desire to be helpful can overcome reading accuracy. Also, sometimes people ask questions that only have one answer that they want to discount. How many vampire duck settings do you think there are?

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Question 1: I always read the first post through. I may respond only to later posts that are not directly related to the OP, but in that case I still read it, I just had nothing to add to the OP.

Question 2: Varies. If I come to a thread for the first time and there are already three or four pages of responses, I probably won't read them all before responding, I'll just read the latest ones. If some responses are insanely long, I may skip them. Sometimes I say I haven't read them all in my own response, sometimes I don't.

Question 3: How do you get a vampire duck anyway? Ducks don't have teeth.

 

[Heckler]

Do you...

No.

 

[Heckler]

Question 3: How do you get a vampire duck anyway? Ducks don't have teeth.

Dire ducks?

 

[Mycanid]

Let's ... get ... dangerous!

 

[Mycanid]

Seriously though ... I do, except in the Hive.

 

[hafrogman]

Let's ... get ... dangerous!

He wasn't a vampire.

Silly Mushroom.


....


Honestly, bringing it up was kind of like an invitation.

 

[Mycanid]

He wasn't a vampire.

Silly Mushroom.


....


Honestly, bringing it up was kind of like an invitation.

He wasn't?

Boy ... well I feel sheepish.

 

[Arkham]

He wasn't?

Boy ... well I feel sheepish.

You're thinking Count Duckula, a spinoff of Dangermouse.
That quote is from Darkwing Duck, a Disney production.

Just to be vaguely informative and stuff...