People of Mylot, Do you READ discussions and responses before responding?

LOL! I don't always read all the responses before I respond to the original post myself. What I was saying about reading responses is that some people start out their own response by saying something like; "I agree with responder A.....", but what they say after that is complete contradiction to "responder A", showing that they clearly disagree, or vice versa. If you are going to start your statement by claiming that you agree with someone else that has already responded, then you should have at least read that person's response carefully enough so that you do not contradict yourself. You have a nice day too!

I have yet to read responses like that. Maybe they are just skimming or as you have said, they don't really understand the response they are relating to.

Yes, often if a lot of people have responded to a thread some of the people will disagree with each other, but I wasn't commenting on people disagreeing with each other in general. Mmmmm....how can I explain this?...For example; a person starts a thread and asks: Would you rather get shoved into a puddle of slime or have hot coffee spilled on you? Responder1 says: I would rather be pushed into a puddle of slime any day, hot coffee would burn! Responder2 says: hot coffee, slime is gross. Responder3 says: I agree with responder1, of course I would rather have hot coffee spilled on me, who wants slime all over them? Of course that is not an actual discussion that took place here on mylot or anywhere else that I am aware of, but just something I made up to demonstrate my point. Notice how responder3 stated that they agreed with responder1 but then made the exact opposite choice then responder1 did? Well, that is the sort of thing I have sometimes seen here on mylot. lol

I don't always read all of the responses to a discussion either but if I started my own response by stating that I agreed or disagreed with another person who had already responded I'd like to think that I had read that person's response clearly enough so as not to contradict myself. lol

Ah! But that is exactly one of the problems. A lot of times you can NOT tell what the discussion is about just from the title. Many times the title is just a gimmick to get people's attention. If you actually read the entire post, then you often find that what is actually being said is not what the title may first lead you to believe. Responding to the title alone, without reading the entire post will often lead to giving responses that are not related to the discussion or that do not answer the main question or both. As you have just demonstrated as you did not answer any of the main questions posed at the end of my post.