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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 8356676" data-attributes="member: 8863">Yes unfortunately that's true.The problem with long threads is that after the first few pages usually all the important points have been discussed, and it ends up as little more than nitpicking over increasing meaningless minutia.  It depends on the thread of course, some topics can handle lengthy discussions, and there's always those long-running threads that stay around for years.I usually prefer to read as much of the topic as possible so I don't repeat something needlessly, but in a long and very active thread, eventually anything I was thinking of saying gets said, or the topic veers so off course that I lose interest.  If there's a new thread that popped up overnight and then exploded into 50, 60 pages or more, I usually don't even bother to take a look.  It takes too much time to read all the stuff in the first place, and my eyes start to glaze over by the time I reach page 20.  And if most of the pages past that are empty wall of text nitpicking, the same people repeating the same crap over and over again, and more and more moderator red text, then the thread probably isn't worth it anymore.It's not so much the actual number of posts, but the rate of posting, as well as the tone of the overall discussion.</blockquote>