How long before you tire of a thread here?

[aco175]

Sometimes I see the same threads over and over for days and weeks. They keep popping up after I thought it was beaten enough. Some I find stay relevant like the one about memes and the other about people dying. Others I find that I stop looking at them after a point. It might not be a post count or page count but could be once the thread dissolves into something else.

For simplicity sake, maybe a general post count since I know many use 10 post/page and others have 20/page.

I find that after 100 posts I wander away from most of the threads, like 80% of them. What is your limit?

 

[payn]

Ebbs and flows. Sometimes Im right in there keeping it alive. Other times, I post once and never return. Really depends how the conversation develops, and evolves. My old saying was the thread is probably dead after 8 pages, and that remains my rule of thumb. Though, I dont mind if people keep beating the horse, sometimes I pop back in after a few days or week just to see what is going on there. Morbid curiosity, I suppose.

 

[Scribe]

Sometimes I see the same threads over and over for days and weeks. They keep popping up after I thought it was beaten enough. Some I find stay relevant like the one about memes and the other about people dying. Others I find that I stop looking at them after a point. It might not be a post count or page count but could be once the thread dissolves into something else.

For simplicity sake, maybe a general post count since I know many use 10 post/page and others have 20/page.

I find that after 100 posts I wander away from most of the threads, like 80% of them. What is your limit?

If its the same people, simply going at it for pages on end, and its a subject of tedium that is ultimately subjective, I wish I could fire it and them into the sun.

 

[MarkB]

If it's been a couple of hours and it's grown by ten pages, that's generally a sign that it's swinging out of control.

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

Okay, I'm done with this.

 

[SkidAce]

If its the same people, simply going at it for pages on end, and its a subject of tedium that is ultimately subjective, I wish I could fire it and them into the sun.

I wish I could flag it somehow....

forgets...opens thread..."Oh..yeah.." closes thread.

 

[Scribe]

I wish I could flag it somehow....

forgets...opens thread..."Oh..yeah.." closes thread.

I'd block the participants, but the thread persists and is bumped regardless.

 

[SkidAce]

I'd block the participants, but the thread persists and is bumped regardless.

I tend not to block. Yet.

 

[Scribe]

I tend not to block. Yet.

Hah! I embraced it full force this year, and man is the site ever improved.

 

[J.Quondam]

Just to pick a number, probably around a 100-ish? posts is when I'm done. Except for very active threads, it seems somewhere around there is when most threads have boiled down to a few particularly vested users discussing whatever tangent they've gone onto. Also, when a thread I'm interested in is moving very fast (e.g., evolving news topics) , i don't usually worry too much about keeping up.