Do you still read?

True, sometimes people just can't understand the deepness of the discussions, when it happens with my own discussions i blame myself that i couldn't explain exactly what i mean. Time ago i had one discussions about eating from the fridge. I did my best to explain that i want to know if people buy something which is rare bought from them, do they eat it until it finish and after that they start cooking, or they cook every day, eat their daily meal and eat pieces of the rare for them food which is in the fridge. With 22 or so responses, i had only few which answered my question. But i don't blame them, i always try to write discussions where more people can join, usually with some questions, so even if the respond is not to the topic, people still explain what they want to and i appreciate. I don't know if people read, may be most of them take a part of the discussion post and talk about it, without thinking in general, but that's not something bad for me. Paying attention (time) for the discussions of the others is something nice and precious and even if the respond is bit far from the topic - it's o.k. for me.

And yeah, for those who don't they'd probably say something like this after reading your title - Yeah, I read a lot when I was schooling but after starting work, I have less time, bla bla bla, yada, yada, yada....haha!~!~Of course I still read through

I also encounter the same observation as you do. I still try to read the entire discussion and wanting to be as responsive as I can. If the discussion is too long, I try to get the point before I make my comment. I need to do that because I don't want to be talking nonsense.

I think most of the time when I respond to topics I try to stay on topic. Sometimes I do go off on a tangent and then I realize that I was starting to get a little off topic and then I respond to the actual question. Sometimes I just want to talk about what came to mind and the topic reminded me of something similar. I know when someone did that on a discussion that I had posted, she came back and realized that she hadn't responded to my topic at all and added a response to that. Not that her response didn't answer the question I had asked, but then she realized that she only responded to part of the situation and didn't acknowledge what I had gone through myself. So I guess sometimes I might do both ways. I hope this answers your question.

I don't particularly like to read. I noly read when I have to or I really think the article is interesting because reading to me is very boring.

hello milkypink26! yes, i still read the content of the discussion before answering and not just depend on the subject line itself. Actually, sometimes i get interested by the very inviting subject line only to stop short after reading the content. It turned out that the discussion was something i have no knowledge about and what i did was logged out of the discussion and find something that i can participate into. There are people though who just jumped into what they think what's the post is all about, gone astray sometimes by the misleading subject line. I just hope that these people would find time to read it through so that they would not be posting a discussion which is beyond the scope of what they're commenting on. THanks. Happy mylotting!

Well I do try and read everything that is post. Of course, it really does help if people do keep the initial post rather simple and down to a paragraph or two at the most. I'm not going to read a rambling manifesto that is like a miniature college term paper. And I doubt most people will. Then again, most people might not read beyond that much. I try and read like I say. However, I get a sense that some people do not read past the topic line in my topics sometimes. Not all that often but there are times where I can see some lack of reading comprehension to be had. Still that is the Internet for you I guess. I should be grateful that they actually picked my topic even if they did not really read it.