# Reply or don't look
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 8, 2000, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726 "2000-06-08T05:57:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/1 "2000-06-08T05:57:59Z")
I’ve noticed a tendency for people to look at a thread and not reply. Would it kill anyone to reply to this thread even if the reply was F\* U I don’t feel like responding. Come-on everyone, I know you have your two cents to add let’s do it!
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### Author:  [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/2 "2000-06-08T05:59:38Z")
All right, I’m responding.
I often read a thread, press the “Reply” button, and when I spend ten minutes typing out a response, I stop and realize “I really don’t have anything to add” and then press the “Back” button.
I’d say I respond to about half the threads I read. Amazing… I’d have around 900 posts by now if I did that…
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### Author:  [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/3 "2000-06-08T06:01:06Z")
Pushy, pushy!
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### Author:  [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/4 "2000-06-08T06:01:55Z")
Hi! Qwisp. How are you this evening? I agree at times, I get a bit depressed to see a very high view count, but hardly any posts to one of my threads. So, I always try to have something to say about the topic. Feel better now?
{{{{{{{{Qwisp}}}}}}}}
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### Author:  [@Loki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loki)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/5 "2000-06-08T06:05:26Z")
I was too curious not to look and too kind hearted not to reply. Knock yourself out, Qwisp. I note that two bastards have already looked and not responded… how couldja?
Wish I had an impressive post count.
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### Author:  [@Sneevil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sneevil)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/6 "2000-06-08T06:06:28Z")
So why do you call yourself Qwisp? Do you have a speech impediment like Tom Bwokaw? Or is there another story? Do you also have a vanity license plate that no one can figure out? What’s your story? Details, I want details.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/7 "2000-06-08T06:08:18Z")
{{{{{{{purplebear}}}}}} You know I love you. Even if I don’t show it too often. dragonlady and bo diddly I love you too. I’m sure I’ll come up with a reason just give me a chance.
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### Author:  [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/8 "2000-06-08T06:10:11Z")
I missed your post Loki and Sneevil i love you too!
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### Author:  [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/9 "2000-06-08T06:11:23Z")
HI qwisp! Bye qwisp!
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### Author:  [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/10 "2000-06-08T06:12:30Z")
sorry, forgot the smilie 😃😃
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/11 "2000-06-08T06:17:42Z")
||dropzone goes off on a tangent or tells a joke.||
Hi, Qwisp! Don’t think we’ve met. I’m new (\<2wks) but am unemployed and bored so I have a high post count. And tangential.
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### Author:  [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/12 "2000-06-08T06:54:24Z")
F\*U I don’t feel like responding.
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### Author:  [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/13 "2000-06-08T06:58:46Z")
Hey Qwisp! How’s Quake?
I guess I’ve started padding my post count.
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### Author:  [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/14 "2000-06-08T07:09:19Z")
Isn’t Qwisp an old cereal brand?
I had to have \* something \* to say…
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### Author:  [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/15 "2000-06-08T08:33:54Z")
Ummmm…ummmmm…nope, no matter how hard I try, I really can’t think of anything to say.
Sorry, Qwisp. ☹
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### Author:  [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/16 "2000-06-08T08:52:24Z")
I’d reply with some insightful, witty quip, but I’m getting ready for bed and have a (nearly empty) snifter of brandy I must drain.
~~Baloo
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### Author:  [@Bubble\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubble_Girl)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/17 "2000-06-08T15:43:12Z")
Good Morning Qwisp! 😃
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### Author:  [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/18 "2000-06-08T15:47:14Z")
Okay, I looked at it, and replied to it.
Wow, I feel much better now.
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### Author:  [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/19 "2000-06-08T15:47:48Z")
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> I’ve noticed a tendency for people to look at a thread and not reply. Would it kill anyone to reply to this thread even if the reply was F\* U I don’t feel like responding. Come-on everyone, I know you have your two cents to add let’s do it!
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I don’t like your bossy attitude! I stopped responding to orders being barked at me when I left the Air Force, and I sure as hell won’t start again now! Had you asked nicely, I possibly would have responded if the subject interested me, but what is the subject here? You haven’t even given us anything to talk about, therefore I refuse to post to your thread.
BTW, has it occurred to you that high view counts to low post counts may be previous posters veiwing a new post, but have nothing else new to add, they just wanna see what the other people had to say?
But I digress. I didn’t like your tone, so F\*CK YOU, I refuse to post here.
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2000, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-or-dont-look/21726/20 "2000-06-08T15:48:53Z")
Do you know why a chicken coup has only two doors?
Answer to come later.
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