What makes you look at a thread?

15 Jan 2005

Quote by Scandal
One thing I never read: Poetry Corner WTF?

Translation. I have no poetic talent/appreciation, therefore Poetry thread is pretentious. :mrgreen:
Venusxxx

15 Jan 2005

a bloody good title and a bloody good subject..........quite simple really

15 Jan 2005

With not reading here at work - it all goes through a proxy server and the sites visited get logged ! - I end up coming home and reading 24hours after the last time. This means a serious list every day to go through.
I must admit to cherry-picking odd ones based on their title and their original and last poster. I'm sure I must miss loads of good ones.
Like a few other honest souls on here I have to admit that if somebody can't even be bothered to punctuate or use capital letters to start a title, or if they fill a post with something requiring the Rosetta Stone to read it, I'm turned off even bothering straight away.
If you think I'm being a post-snob then it's probably because I write so therefore I guess I'm not so surprised I do that. Call it a quirk - that doesn't sound so anti-social wink

( me, vetting post titles -----> :small-print: )

15 Jan 2005

Ok firstly its the author. Some people could write "click here to win Â£1,000,000" and because of who it is I wouldn't bother. Sorry folks. (but thats only a handful of members)
So once I'm happy about the author it then needs a reasonable title.
2005's 100% guarantee of non viewing for me.....
I'm new here
I'm leaving
Doh I cant read 2cm above where I'm typing where the answer is written, so I'm starting my own thread.
any thread on 10 pages + when i first enter, or that has more than 5 additional pages when i come back the next time.
100% guarantee for viewing.....
When Dawn tells me to check out a post. (thanks Dawn - you save me hours worship

When Corrie applies for numpty of the week award.
People discussing Dawn's tits.
So c'mon folks,
post me happy
Ian

15 Jan 2005

Quote by freckledbird
And I know this will make me sound horrid and snobbish but I also (as far as possible) avoid posts started by people who refuse to use any form of punctuation and can't be arsed to check their spellings. This is purely because they are very difficult to read sometimes. I am currently considering posting on a thread about a particular person's lack of attention in these departments but I am managing to bite my tongue so far . Oh and by the way, I do appreciate that not everyone can spell (quite prepared to admit that I also make spelling mistakes sometimes) or whatever and dyslexics have my fullest sympathy. It's just the people who obviously can't ever be bothered that piss me off. Sorry.
Bev
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Hear hear Bev, I'm in complete agreement with you there, nothing horrid or snobbish about it. I'm here to relax rather than strain myself trying to decipher posts written by people who can't be bothered to use any punctuation at all. And as several people here have written before, we've read enough to tell intuitively who are the ones who can't be bothered and who are the ones who have genuine problems with dyslexia.
Mike.

15 Jan 2005

"What makes you look at a thread"
A title that gives you a clue as to what the thread's about, like this one. smile

If I see a heading like "Guess what happened to me today..." or "Look at this!!!" I'm not interested.

15 Jan 2005

Quote by Ian_Mids
People discussing Dawn's tits.

So, If I start a thread on the above subject, everyone will read it, but no one will answer it for fear of getting up to 1000 pages ??
The do look nice on the avatar, don't they.

15 Jan 2005

Quote by BaldEagle
People discussing Dawn's tits.

The do look nice on the avatar, don't they.
There mighty fine in RL too!.
Ian

15 Jan 2005

Would you like me to leave so you can talk about me properly?
Dawn rolleyes

15 Jan 2005

Quote by Dawn_Mids
Would you like me to leave so you can talk about me properly?
Dawn

Yes please. And no peeping! :lol2:

15 Jan 2005

ok

15 Jan 2005

Awwww poo, I feel all guilty now. passionkiss

15 Jan 2005

Quote by Ian_Mids
People discussing Dawn's tits.

The do look nice on the avatar, don't they.
There mighty fine in RL too!.
Ian
You're making me jealous - now going away to sulk... :dry:

15 Jan 2005

Quote by Ice Pie
Would you like me to leave so you can talk about me properly?
Dawn

Yes please. And no peeping! :lol2:
Looks over his shoulder OMFG
Dawn your still looking !
Ian

15 Jan 2005

Quote by Ice Pie
Awwww poo, I feel all guilty now.

So you should be mad

Quote by Ian_Mids
Looks over his shoulder OMFG
Dawn your still looking !
Ian

oops
Dawn :silly:

16 Jan 2005

Mike North, Carpy and Bev (and others of a similar view including me and the Divinely Decadent one herself :love smile

, it is not a question of snobbery but, as you have said, making something readable. I have to admit that I am something of a pedant about language (I particularly detest 'text speak' mad

:x ) but I don't expect others to necessarily be so anal about it and we all make the odd typo. Needless to say, people LOVE to pick me up on it when I make a faux pas - which is all part of the fun.
What I am getting round to, in my usual rambling fashion is this..................

Quote by KitKat
I must be a geek -I get all organised about it. I have two windows open, in one I start with the latest thread, then use view previous to go down through the list, reading the first couple of posts in each thread. It's not very often that I pay any attention to who is posting it, because with two windows tiled I can only see the text not the author.
The other window I use to write the replys, view PM's and all the other stuff.
lhk

Take a look at that last sentence again, Kat. A 'y' becomes 'ies' in a plural so it should be 'replies' and PM is an abbreviation which means that the plural would be PMs. No apostrophe is needed as it is neither a possessive nor are there any letters missing!!
I am being particularly harsh on Kat for two reasons:
a) he should be know better
b) Jags isn't here to do it :jagsatwork: .
Report to Jags on her return for your punishment! smackbottom

Will
PS All alone this weekend, so can I have a slap from Kit please?
PPS Better go and get on with what I am supposed to be doing or I shall end up with another slap (Hopefully :twisted: :twisted:)

16 Jan 2005

It's almost always the title that entices me to read, I don't go by who the original poster is as I don't know people well enough (except for a few people in Dogging whose posts can guarantee interesting/amusing content). If it's more than 2 pages long I tend to check the last page first to make sure it hasn't descended into hissyfits/namecalling/hairpulling/chasing out of town with pitchforks before reading the entire thing biggrin

I don't often bother with flounces, apologies or anything that looks too serious....I have sky news for that! wink

16 Jan 2005

Quote by willxx69
a) he should be know better

Whoops Will!
I wonder whether there is a name for the law that anyone online correcting someone else's spelling mistake, grammatical error or typo, inevitably makes one themselves.
Mike (scrutinising his post extremely carefully!)

16 Jan 2005

Oh bugger

!!
I KNEW there would be a mistake in there somewhere, even though I read it through twice rolleyes

. That law of Mike's is undoubtedly universal :doh:
I don't know. Never a proof reader around when you want one! (I am going to be in trouble for that too - hopefully :twisted smile

Will
MUST read more carefully in future surprised

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