.....to ask people to read the thread?

I tend to dip in and out for 5mins, not enough time to read the whole thread when it is more than a page.

Lucca, I often simply haven't got the time or patience to read through an entire thread. If I give a duplicate answer, so be it!

eazybee, unsure, why you are commenting on something that happened three weeks ago.
The posters on the maths thread always try to wind me up and I love it.

Lucca and I had a laugh on the Maths, thread, that is what he/she is referring to in the OP about Pinot Grigio.
Oh and another thing, I actually know Baggs personally, so I know exactly what she meant.

I always thin multiple answers the same is fine . The OP can check through and take a consensus on what’s been said - like yes=50 no=10 if you see what I mean .

No-one would wind up Marydoll, eazybee
She's very scary and strict and gives you harder sums if you annoy her.
And detention.

I read the OP and reply Sometimes I read the thread sometimes I don't it depends on how long the thread is and which device I am using

People are not seeking to have a conversation, they are expressing an opinion in response to the poster's question. If thirty-seven people say 'seek legal advice' it will have a considerably stronger impact on the poster than just one response.
Marydoll, can't you see that people are winding you up?

Sorry - thread not THREAT!!!

Venall : agree with your post - "I don't post much but I do read but I seem to always read things and then realise there are a few pages so I don't bother saying anything. No point in repeating what others have all ready said". I do wonder if it is easier to follow a threat on a laptop rather than on a smart phone but, as I don't have smart phone, not really sure.

phoenix all the original poster's subsequent posts are in green on my tablet.

That happens to me as well Nortsat we must be a bit slow off the mark.

There’s another aspect, people’s threads can cross.

I realise this doesn’t account for all of the repeated answers but it has happened to me ... I draft a reply and preview for grammar and sense, then by the time I have finalised my post, several more replies have been added, sometimes raising very similar points to my own.

I like people answering without reading other people's opinions. It's more genuine.

BlueBell @ 11.13 has it nailed! A few months ago I started an OP regarding having taken in a parcel for a neighbour and how I wasn't able to deliver it to them for several days. Lots of very helpful replies and suggestions. I then posted to say that the neighbours had called for the parcel and had explained why they hadn't collected it sooner. The thread died a natural death. Until a month or so later, it was resurrected by a helpful soul who posted to tell me that it was a "non problem" and I was making a mountain out of a molehill!

I think people read a post and think they can help! They probably don't notice it is an 'old' post and it is probably right that old posts should be closed down?

Nothing to insist everyone reads every post before they post. If they do, great, if not then let them post as they want to? It will be totally ignored by the original poster if it is no longer relevant. Why do others get upset about it? Only wasting the actual posters time really isn't it? I don't think other posters need to get upset about it. Well just my opinion.

I have read all this thread before responding .

Whether one reads all the thread, rather depends on how long it is. When it gets up to 16 pages or more it is a bit much to expect someone to read all those pages before possibly making a one sentence response that may be very significant.

Also, like ordinary conversations, threads do evolve and develop as they go and there is no rule to say every response has to stay rigidly in line with the OP, sometimes the most interesting discusssions occur when the thread has evolved into something other than the OP.

I do not think it is possible to have a hard and fast rule. Sometimes I make one response to a thread and that is it. Other times I make a response and no more for several more days when I then notice that the thread has evolved and I then comeback to it and post several responses over a day, then drop out again. I will have not read every post on the 10 pages that intervene between my first and later posts

Of course there is repetition and fatuous remarks, threads are just conversations in print and is remarkable how much repetition, irrelevance and inanity there is in everyday and, even, serious conversations!

I did think I would leave a comment about thread but then I would have had to have read all 44 comments to be sure of not repeating something already said.

I bet someone else has already said this.

A similar thing with me, Laughterlines except that by the time I have typed out a post, corrected it (not always I must admit), there are several in between saying something similar

My internet connection is so slow that even when I immediately reply to a post three or four have got in before me. I think that’s what’s happened here. No big deal.

Thanks grannylaine.

Agree with some others....doesn’t bother me at all, and often there are several long pages to wade through, no reason posters have to read all of them before they comment.
So yes OP I do think you are being unreasonable.

Even GNHQ with their highlighted posts can't get the message over. Nearly every competition thread has entries after the winner has been announced.

I find it mildly annoying when I have answered with an original thought and then someone else says the same and gets the credit for it . However I think it is courteous, if you haven't read the thread and wish to comment, to simply say you haven't read it. If its a long thread I can understand why we wouldn't read it all and I don't.

Lucca YANBU

A thread is like a conversation: some posters are more interested in being heard rather than listening and then posting a considered reply.
I do accept that there is sometimes a crossover when you find that in the time you have been typing, three other people have chipped in.

I think sometimes people want to respond to the poster and let them know they are interested in their post. Quite often others have responded before me with the same comments I was going to make but I don't want to ignore the poster.
I agree withBlueBelle about resurrecting very old posts.

I tried to read your post, but after "shepherd's pie" blah blah, I'm afraid I got bored.........