Sometimes I’ll encounter a thread that I hadn’t previously opened, but am mildly curious about. Now it’s up to, say, eight pages, and I’m wondering how this topic has managed to sustain itself that long. So rather than reading the entire thread I’ll just open the last page . . . just to see the direction the thread has taken.
For sure. Happens a lot.
Remember one from earlier this year titled something like “Hi. I’m Carol and new here!”? Yeah, so what, Carol. Good for you. Well, after it got up to about four pages I thought, what the hell is so interesting about this broad? So, I clicked to the last link to discover an ongoing conspiracy theory tennis match regarding cattle mutilations!
Well, that explains it.
Sometimes, but a great timesaver is to hover over the title to see what the original discussion was supposed to be. Then I’ll make a decision whether to open the last page.
And sometimes instead of the last page I’ll open page 3 or 4.
Page 3 or 4? Who does that? What are you, some kind of weirdo or something? 
I go straight to the last page to see the state of the train wreck first. If it looks like a good wreck I’ll go back and watch it unfold in slow motion. The one Leaffan mentioned comes to mind.
Sure, I’ll judge the book by reading just inside covers. As shiftless mentions if the train wreck is good I’ll investigate further. If not, or especially if one or two especially tiresome culprits are in there futzing things up then I’ll drop it like a potato, never to return.
Yes, I am, but that has nothing to do with it. I figure that if it took a major hijacking, that’s probably around the point where it happened.
I’m right a surprisingly few number of times.