Who runs away from a long thread?

[Asa Samuel]

Anybody see a long thread coming up and cant be bothered reading it?


Bass Junkie.

[Bryan316]

Define "long".

Long first post, or seeing 17 pages of responses before you even get to it?

[bassteban]

This one is borderline lengthy already for me...

[Asa Samuel]

Long first post.

[Mark Latimour]

Depends on the author. With some users, you know its going to be worth the effort from the first sentence!

[MakiSupaStar]

It really depends. If it's someone who I like reading I'll check it out. If it looks like a "yes it is, not it's not" kind of thread, that will really obviously have too camps on the issue, then I generally avoid it. But if it's something random and it's getting a lot of hits then I usually check it out because I know there's gonna be some OT hilarity going on there. THat's the long answer.

Short answer. Shut the hell up.

[Bryan316]

Depends on the subject.


"OMGZORZ I gotz me a new Epihone P-bass for $49, what amp should I YOOZ??!??!!one?1!1!!exclamationpoint?" I'm pretty much gonna stay away from.

But if a guy has a truly screwed up rig or some really specific topic about his gear, hell yeah I'll read it. If I can help, I definitely would. If not, it's still a learning experience in case I ran into his kind of problem.

But here in Off-Topic... there better be a Maki-Dis feud kickin' or I ain't stickin!

[markjazzbassist]

yeah i get frightened off by them. i don't like the dark either.

[meev992]

Originally Posted by Bryan316

Long first post, or seeing 17 pages of responses before you even get to it?

Either of these two scare me off, but I try to skim, and see if the thread/post is worth reading.

[louieeadg]

Originally Posted by markjazzbassist

...i don't like the dark either.

Mark...you're a







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[HollowBassman]

Did you just say that he is a beautiful flower?

[Mark Latimour]

I also run away from any thread which, notwithstanding the brevity of the OP, is written in big fonts. Speaking of which where is Mike "Very Special", he promised me 10 more mentions of his confiscated kazoo and by my count, he was only up to 6. You can't trust anyone these days.

[IconBasser]

yes. It's kind of annoying really...

I'll see an interesting looking thread, and then I see the page count (1,2,3,4,5,6...Last Page), and I'm just like, man, no way do I feel like lookin through all that...

[Baryonyx]

Not me. I regularly post in threads about Jeff Berlin.

[Chunk-O-Funk]

What was the question again?

[Johnny Mack]

this has fallen way off topic

[KeithBMI]

As the age of the poster goes down, my interest in reading their thread goes up.

[Bard2dbone]

Originally Posted by Mark Latimour

Depends on the author. With some users, you know its going to be worth the effort from the first sentence!

Are you talking about me again?

It weally depends on the subject. I hate when there is the start to a good discussion and then it goes waaaaay off topic and further as it goes on.

I hate it if it looks like it'll be worth wandering through fifteen pages. but then you start reading it and page three starts a pointless new topic, but you try to gut it out in hopes that it'll go back on track. Then on page five that topic changes to yet another, then another n page eight...and so on.

Hatehatehate that.

[unbasslichkeit]

The problem with long threads is that I always have to read the whole thing before sharing my erudite and highly refined opinions and observations with everyone.

Because, you see, someone might have said the exact thing around about post number 23 or the thread, and then I'd look like an idiot.

[McHack]

I pretty much ignore long individual posts... I try to scan them, but they're always a bunch of hot air, trying to convince everyone of the OP's point of view....

And, ALL POV's other than mine SUK! ..|..