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Hey, Santaman! [2006-12-15]

you guys are already showing me something about some people on this website.

joel moralez wrote:

you guys are already showing me something about some people on this website.

That we don't care for stupid and/or lazy people who won't even try putting a little bit of effort (i.e. reading a few posts in a thread) before asking a question that has already been answered?

Yes. That we expect people to act intelligently. ^^; Please read posts in a thread before you ask a question! It's common net ettiquete.

darkchibi07 wrote:

Hahaha, Cossette is so MOE!!!

That title pic is nothing compared to these:





(Courtesy of jccw @ Proware's forum)

Just look at those big blue eyes in the second picture... they can melt a heart of steel.

MorwenLaicoriel wrote:

Yes. That we expect people to act intelligently. ^^; Please read posts in a thread before you ask a question! It's common net ettiquete.

I must admit that sometimes I am guilty of not reading a whole thread myself, when the hread is very long. That being said, this question is answered on the FIRST page, and it would take VERY LITTLE effort to find out the answer, so I must say IN THIS CASE there is NO excuse.

Well, yeah, you don't have to read every single page of every thread you're in, but when you have a question about an anime that's being discussed in the thread, you really should at least skim through the thread before you post....

MorwenLaicoriel wrote:

Well, yeah, you don't have to read every single page of every thread you're in, but when you have a question about an anime that's being discussed in the thread, you really should at least skim through the thread before you post....

Actually, I do expect people to read every post in a thread before posting in that thread.

As it is most people don't even seem to bother reading past the first post before mashing the post button and rambling on and on, usually just repeating an opinion that's already been espoused, but of course they don't know that because they're too lazy to spend a few minutes reading what's already been said.

It's obnoxious, and as I've said, I'm going to start handing out 2 week bans for anyone who starts their comment with "Well, I didn't read the whole thread, but...". If you can't be courteous enough to even read what other people are saying, why in the world should we care what you have to say?

This OBVIOUSLY doesn't apply to this post. But I once came across a thread ~17-20+ page thread, and even though I tried to read the whole thing, it seemed to add new pages faster then I could keep up.

MorwenLaicoriel wrote:

Well, yeah, you don't have to read every single page of every thread you're in, but when you have a question about an anime that's being discussed in the thread, you really should at least skim through the thread before you post....

Actually, I do expect people to read every post in a thread before posting in that thread.

As it is most people don't even seem to bother reading past the first post before mashing the post button and rambling on and on, usually just repeating an opinion that's already been espoused, but of course they don't know that because they're too lazy to spend a few minutes reading what's already been said.

It's obnoxious, and as I've said, I'm going to start handing out 2 week bans for anyone who starts their comment with "Well, I didn't read the whole thread, but...". If you can't be courteous enough to even read what other people are saying, why in the world should we care what you have to say?

animalia555 wrote:

This OBVIOUSLY doesn't apply to this post. But I once came across a thread ~17-20+ page thread, and even though I tried to read the whole thing, it seemed to add new pages faster then I could keep up.

If you can't read what people are discussion, why would you even want to contribute? Like Zac said earlier, it's a discussion, not a monologue - to be able to intelligently take part you need to know what other people have said. Personally I often feel that if the thread is more than, say five pages long when I start reading, chances are I won't have anything to say about the original topic that someone hasn't already said. If the topic is interesting though, I'll read the thread and see if there's anything I can add... But I would be very embarrassed if I just repeated what other people have said.

Usually in cases whereI am unable to read the whole thread I will try to post a disclaimer, however, stating that I was unable to read the whole thing do to length, and that I was sorry if I restated what someone else had already said.