Thread Prejudice

I'm guilty about those ones too.

Also bangbus. Threads about films. I have to say I'm extremely tight fisted with birthday greetings aswell which isn't very nice of me.

yea, i didn't go on those 2 either, and now there are far 2 many responses to actually look. i'm not great with the birthday ones either. some of the films ones too. i did look at the bangbus thread though

i'd just like to say i didn't mean to use the number 2 to stand in for the word 'to'. it was an error. i don't like people who use numbers instead of letters

Agree w/ Ronan abt birthday greetings: it just feels weird to me, saying 'happy birthday' to ppl I've never met. And the ILE bar biz is all a bit too 'virtual' for me...

I also avoid threads any threads written in capitals.

Lots of the picture threads take too long to load on this computer, so I tend to avoid them as well.

Yes I don't bother with pictures either. And I tend not to look at film threads either as Gareth says. God we threadists have similar ideals. Or at least I'm agreeing with everything here making me a huge threadist.

For I admit entirely unjustifiable reasons, I avoid:
Music-related threads
'I need advice' threads
Threads about American geography/politics/pop culture
Techie threads
Momus threads

I really wish I could stop myself from reading Momus threads.

i read everything :(

I open all the threads, I can't stand to see blue letters. I'm not at all selective in the threads I respond to.

Though, on ILM I only open about a tenth of all the threads.

And on Identity Crisis, I open threads and get transported to a different website!

I have never read the B*ngb*s thread.

The ILE bar is just like a chatroom thingy as part of ILE and was a great idea of CJ's. It can be joined at any time without reading past posts. I like it for making trivial comments on things that don't seem to warrant their own thread then and there, and the feeling of social connection from work or home.

The quiz is finished so there is not much point in going there, but there will be more, as some people really liked it. Not everyone likes that kind of thing.

I read anything except when the title is the name of some guy I've never heard of (cos it's usually an author or director or philosopher or interior designer that people discuss with long words that scare me)

I know Graham, when will people STOP with those pesky interior designer threads? :)

(I do exactly the same by the way.)

I don't really have any solid threadjudices - but picture threads do little for me. I love film threads obviously, and like the more abstract political threads, even if I'm not very good at them. I quite like Momus threads as they are the dumbed down version of the intellectual threads.

Threads about American geography/politics/pop culture

*blinks* You mean there's other stuff?

I read about 1 in 3 ILE threads. I tend to not bother with threads that have nondescript titles that could be about anything - e.g. recently: 'crazy town', 'Fucked Up', 'What to do'. (Memo to questioners: grab my attention!) Who the questioner is sometimes a factor: why I should want to read about every event and thought in anthony's life is beyond me, but i do! :)

I skipped the Bar threads for the reason gareth cited. I did click on the Music Quiz thread but all the action happened in the late evenings when I wasn't near a PC, so meh.

threads about ile meetups, birthday ones, music quiz, sometimes threads about people i've never heard of, sports ones

I skip picture threads esp. at home because of the download time.

I lurk loads on ILM. I read a lot of it, but hardly ever post. IL* is my skiving off work tool and as work involves music it defeats my skiving object if that makes any sense whatsoever.

I skip most sport threads and (sorry Alan) things about kittens. (Nothing wrong with football or kittens, just not for me, NOW I sound like a killjoy)

You have no idea how tempting it is to put a big picture of a kitten on this thread now.

anything to do with comics or computers or computer games.

Can I just say that while I have problems thinking up anything to say on birthday threads, I do indeed open them up and read them and think pleasant thoughts about the birthday-person?

I avoid comics threads, SF threads, sports threads, and crap about computer games. I look at birthday threads but don't always post, even when I should.

It's been a while since we've had a Nick Currie thread of any kind!

That is because he has been on tour.

Like Mark S, I generally read everything, though due to my vacation break I'm only concentrating on recently answered threads from today...

Ned, that doesn't often stop him.

I guess I'm like most of the people here - anything about people I've never heard of, I ignore (unless I'm curious/bored). Football threads never get read by me. Some birhday ones.

Mostly though, I open threads, read the first two lines and click "Back"

Ned, that doesn't often stop him.

Amazing! I will ask him about it on Saturday, hopefully.

I agree about birthday threads, though i tend to put something on them as it seems impolite not to (not like it's a lot of effort, really). Also avoid London-centric threads as they are of no immediate relevance to me.

I tend to avoid Brit-centered celebrity threads and threads with names that don't catch my attention (e.g. fashion).

I only read the B***B** thread.

If it's anything to do with sports I'm inclined to ignore it, but if I'm bored enough I will end up looking at those too.

I'm more inclined to not look at threads if one person in particular has posted the question, because they always devolve in the same way.

I'll tend to avoid threads that deal with areas I'm not visiting. Number two? Hmm, those that just are an excuse for dissing other members....

I don't read this thread etc.

Most threads on the ILE new answers. Which is a shame.

A snapshot:

Meanwhile, in Umm Qasr... (4 new answers, last at 8:08 pm, 1 unread)
Oh I just don't know what to say! (19 new answers, last at 8:07 pm, 1 unread)
This is the thread where we post pictures of food we simply CANNOT BELIEVE anyone could dislike (36 new answers, last at 8:06 pm)
this is the ALL NEW thread where you copy and paste the posts that made you laugh out loud (139 new answers, last at 8:06 pm)
Is there a derogatory slang term for post-modernists? (19 new answers, last at 8:05 pm, 5 unread)
What Have You Been Listening To Lately? (1 new answer, last at 8:03 pm, 1 unread)
Do you commute? (39 new answers, last at 8:03 pm, 39+ unread)
Thread Prejudice (1 new answer, last at 8:02 pm, 1 unread)
on no! FITE! oh NO!! (4 new answers, last at 8:00 pm, 4 unread)
SARS (96 new answers, last at 7:58 pm, 21 unread)
I'm Going to be On a TV Quiz Show! (Possibly) (33 new answers, last at 7:56 pm)
America is Full of Churches (17 new answers, last at 7:54 pm)
FLAN (1 new answer, last at 7:51 pm)
Flan: Classic or dud? (15 new answers, last at 7:50 pm)
Creationism (11 new answers, last at 7:49 pm)
FAJCP? (67 new answers, last at 7:48 pm, 67 unread)
OP2 Transformers(1 Autobot + 1 Decepticon) (22 new answers, last at 7:43 pm, 22+ unread)
George W Bush - the new Abraham Lincoln? (68 new answers, last at 7:40 pm)
Do you hate people who share your first name? (77 new answers, last at 7:40 pm, 43 unread)
This is crazy. (16 new answers, last at 7:37 pm)
The Academy of the "Overrated" (122 new answers, last at 7:35 pm)
Would this qualify as "burning my bridges"? (54 new answers, last at 7:32 pm, 1 unread)
The Poetry of D. H. Rumsfeld (13 new answers, last at 7:29 pm, 13+ unread)
How do you know you're in a hip apartment? (45 new answers, last at 7:28 pm, 39 unread)
Write my contributor's note for me. (19 new answers, last at 7:25 pm, 19+ unread)
ILX Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball League 2003 -- Part 2 . . . (376 new answers, last at 7:20 pm, 376+ unread)
FAP tonight, London people (62 new answers, last at 7:16 pm, 62+ unread)
Life of Pi: Opinions? (11 new answers, last at 7:13 pm, 11+ unread)
Are the clothes that Lily Pulitzer designs Preppy ? (8 new answers, last at 7:11 pm, 8 unread)
Say something about this picture of a BACHELORETTE (15 new answers, last at 7:08 pm, 15+ unread)
Happy Birthdays James, Madchen and Badgerminor! (12 new answers, last at 7:07 pm, 5 unread)
So far, the funniest thing about the smoking ban in NYC bars and restaurants... (97 new answers, last at 7:00 pm, 84 unread)
Thread Connections II: Electric Boogaloo (49 new answers, last at 6:44 pm, 49 unread)

Unopened ones in bold.

okay, swap the Rumsfeld poetry for the two FLAN threads and mine are EXACTLY the same as N.'s!

Yeah, Flan I don't get the appeal of. Ones with trollish titles like "America is full of churches" usually get ignored too.

Out of the top 15 threads right now, there are only 4 I haven't opened.
Sometimes I get worn out reading political/ war threads.

FAP threads make me sad.

Where do you live, Erik?

Next winter I want to be ice-skating in NYC.

Now I'm in grey, cold Rotterdam, Holland.

I skip little except ones involving meets somewhere other than London, as they make me envious and sad, and ones on sports I don't get to see - from England, I can get little out of a fantasy baseball league.

It's probably possible to use peoples' answers to this thread to guage where would be the best threads to talk about them.