# READ & THINK before posting! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 24, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748 "2003-07-24T22:58:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fuel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fuel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuel)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/1 "2003-07-24T22:58:39Z")
So many people on this board read a post and don’t even stop to think about anything before submitting a reply. It is ridiculous and embarrassing. So many assumptions, no benefit of the doubt, no intellectual consideration, no empathising, no figuring the best way to interpret someone’s post… just double-friggin’ click! I guess that’s gonna happen when you got people here who are averaging a post a minute on this board. Quantity is overtaking quality here people… I hope you see this. Do something about it. THINK before you post. Some guy just rattled off something that had nothing to do with the topic in one of my threads. And a week ago, some guy tried to “whoosh” me but screwed up… and then never realized he screwed up! Because he didn’t READ & THINK! Don’t be one of these, read and think. AND GIVE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT TO YOUR FELLOW DOPERS BEFORE POSTING A REPLY!!! I’m out. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/2 "2003-07-24T23:19:21Z")
Literacist! ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/3 "2003-07-24T23:39:00Z")
Must… resist… urge to post… stupidly. I hate cheese. Damn, I tried. Might I ask for a cite, **Fuel**? It helps the discussion. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/4 "2003-07-24T23:43:13Z")
I should add that reading and thinking are good things to do before posting. I agree with you there, but I’m not quite sure that I’m seeing an increase in thoughtless posts. If you provide a cite or two we can go from there. Sorry if the post above seemed a bit jerkish, but its’ nice to have fun during these things. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/5 "2003-07-24T23:44:19Z")
I agree with **Fuel**!! People need to learn to slow down and read and not be rushing off to the gym all the time. Why do you need to work out so much? How is that going to help your post count? (Answer: it’s not.) It’s just like **Fuel** said: “If you double-click on a post every minute, someone is going to “whoosh” your reply.” And those are words to live by. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/6 "2003-07-24T23:47:04Z")
I didn’t read your whole post, but your obvious hatred of America and Maine Coon Cats is, at best, distasteful. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/7 "2003-07-24T23:57:10Z")
Oh, c’mon, thinking’s overrated. ---
**Author:** ![Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/8 "2003-07-25T00:11:42Z")
It seems that Adrian Mole is back to his tongue-clucking about how failures of communication are always the other guy’s fault. Grow up, Fuel. You’re only making yourself look like even more of a childish ass than you have already. ---
**Author:** ![Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/9 "2003-07-25T00:21:48Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=195241](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=195241) Here’s one cite. Specifically, it’s the thread in which Fuel was whooshed by my post, and Fuel came up with a bizarrely convoluted rationale for why I had screwed up the “whoosh,” as he put it. All of this, of course, triggered by Fuel’s clumsy use of English, followed by his declaration that it’s everyone else’s fault that they can’t understand him. (And why is it their fault? Because they don’t READ & THINK before posting!) ---
**Author:** ![Fuel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fuel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuel)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/10 "2003-07-25T01:02:13Z")
**Ben** :“BTW, Fuel, how can you go around making accusations that people aren’t of sound mind? You youself have completely failed to address many of the arguments presented here, avoid using profanity, and behave in a mature fashion overall.” **My Reply** : [jokingly] “Extraordinary claim! Must need quote to prove…” **Ben’s Reply** : “A quote to prove what? I never, and I mean nevereverever claimed that you had used profanity. Can you provide me with even once cite- even one!- in which I claim that you used profanity? Because right about now I’m starting to feel like your post, complete with its blatantly out-of-context quote, proves that you’re really not arguing in good faith.” And on it went… Ben apparently messed up. “Failed to… avoid using profanity” = “Fuel used profanity”. And then I asked you to cite where I used profanity and you said you never said that. Uh, ok?! If that’s a “whoosh”, then I don’t see what’s so funny or cool about whooshing someone… ---
**Author:** ![Fuel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fuel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuel)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/11 "2003-07-25T01:05:15Z")
**Ben** : Also, how is it I am being childish if I am expressing a complaint in the BBQ forum? Isn’t this the place where one should go to post such a complaint/observation? ---
**Author:** ![aaslatten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@aaslatten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaslatten)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/12 "2003-07-25T01:20:11Z")
Man, I just read a good deal of that monster thread. I feel like someone owes me a beer. ---
**Author:** ![Fuel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fuel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuel)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/13 "2003-07-25T01:21:19Z")
Here’s the thread that actually prompted this thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=199910](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=199910) Normally, this type of occurrence alone wouldn’t bother me. But it keeps happening to me, so I thought I would voice it here. Nothing against **Dogface** at all in the above thread. I am sure he/she is a very quality person, but he/she just blatantly did not understand my posts, or at least made a huge leap to assume something for no apparent reason. This is what I am talking about. It’s simply a product of communicating detailed ideas on a message board. I am not sure if it’s out of control or anything, but it’s just kind of annoyed me lately, that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Fuel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fuel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuel)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/14 "2003-07-25T01:26:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aaslatten \* > \*\*Man, I just read a good deal of that monster thread. I feel like someone owes me a beer. \*\* I was very suprised **Ben** just threw that one out there. It’s so long, I wouldn’t expect anyone to wade through all that crap. :eek: That ain’t right, Ben, you owe that man a brew!? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fuel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fuel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuel)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/15 "2003-07-25T01:26:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aaslatten \* > \*\*Man, I just read a good deal of that monster thread. I feel like someone owes me a beer. \*\* I was very suprised **Ben** just threw that one out there. It’s so long, I wouldn’t expect anyone to wade through all that crap. :eek: That ain’t right, Ben, you owe that [wo]man a brew!? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/16 "2003-07-25T01:26:59Z")
**Fuel** says no more stupid posts. Has everyone got that? Does _everybody_ understand? Ok, good. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/17 "2003-07-25T01:29:56Z")
Thank God. Finally our Lord of the Rings vs. Star Trek debates will come to a peaceful close. ---
**Author:** ![Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/18 "2003-07-25T01:36:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fuel \* > \*\ ***Ben** : Also, how is it I am being childish if I am expressing a complaint in the BBQ forum? Isn’t this the place where one should go to post such a complaint/observation? \*\* Because you’re a whiner. You yourself don’t think before posting, but you go on about how _everyone else_ is acting stupid. Take the beam out of your own eye. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/19 "2003-07-25T01:38:12Z")
Jeeze, at least this wasn’t about me. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748/20 "2003-07-25T01:38:59Z")
I’m sorry, what was the question again? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-think-before-posting/190748.md?page=2)