are gigantic threads that you haven't posted on yet not intimidating?

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you click. the thing opens...and keeps opening....you gasp, you could keep scrolling down forever until even after the new guns and roses album has been released, and you *still* will not be able to finish *reading* the entire thing, much less join in on the discussion and add somethin intelligent to say. that will get noticed! so late into it..

extremely long threads. aren't they scary ?

― V, Sunday, 24 November 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

well yes, but that's also because i'm a lurker and to try and cut into months and months of in-jokes and very defined characters is already incredibly intimidating. but even more so when the discussion is longer or more heated

― chris browning (commonswings), Sunday, 24 November 2002 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, exactly. i wouldn;t even call myself a lurker but just an irregular and it's terribly frightening when u innocently click! and the thing just keeps scrolling down down down into hell..

― V, Sunday, 24 November 2002 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

of course the little numbers: "734 new responses" try to warn you even before u open, but they still don't serve as any deterrent

― V, Sunday, 24 November 2002 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Sometimes I print them off and read them.

Don't really contribute to them, as what I would say has been said, or what I would say wouldn't come out right.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 24 November 2002 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

they're the best to read but by the time i get to the bottom, it's extremely likely that someone has already said what i want to say or that it's gone down into one-line-innuendo territory.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 24 November 2002 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

tsk jel what a waste of paper!

― ron (ron), Sunday, 24 November 2002 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

If a post already has 100 posts or so and it's a very involved topic, I figure I probably can't add anything too interesting to it at that point and just lurk/read.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 24 November 2002 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

most of those big threads seem the shift gears at the 100 post mark, so if you want to change the topic or say something stupid, that's the ideal time

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Sunday, 24 November 2002 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

some of them are so interesting, but yes i find that by the time i get near the end i am skimming, so i dont post in case i am repeating a point already made, or might have missed something really relevant and so end up getting the wrong end of the stick. ( looking like an idiot )

― donna (donna), Sunday, 24 November 2002 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

tsk jel what a waste of paper!

not if he leaves them on buses when he's finished reading them to himself.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 November 2002 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

If I've got the time and the subject interests me (this covers most), I'll read them, but they are the ones that get skipped when I'm very busy. I might catch up later with time, but if by then they've fallen off New Answers they might never get read.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 24 November 2002 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

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