This is a general question for all message boards.
Sometimes life gets busy and there’s just not time to check message boards for a few days or even weeks. When you finally do return are you anxious to read everything you missed or do you only read that days postings?
I never read beyond the first page of postings. I figure the topics beyond that are “talked out”. Threads seem to have a limited life.
Besides, I don’t have the patience to read much more than a couple dozen threads a day.
I don’t. Except in the Pit on this board. I buy some popcorn before catching up on some of those threads.
I read whatever I would have normally seen that day.
Message boards are ephemeral and trivial. No need to read too much backstory.
No. I’ll just read whatever takes my fancy.
Depends upon how much time until my next task or whatever. Here I open “new posts” and scan down the replies column. I usually don’t look at threads with more than nine replies. If I am killing time before doing something else and the clock is ticking down on me I may lower my views to threads with five or less replies.
I stop at two pages, usually. But not to catch up–just to see if there’s anything interesting to talk about. I don’t care if I’m up to date with any board, but I do care if I might have missed something I would have enjoyed.
I generally will go ahead and post in any thread that is a couple months old or less. If the topic is dead, I won’t get any replies. But, quite often, there’s at least one person who wants to continue the converation.