How many pages before you give up on a thread?

[moon man]

All depends, boomer, house price, salarys ends up the same old stuff, same posters and I bail out, same with vegan threads.
Sometimes wait until I see my post quoted before I return or randomly look.

 

[HangTime]

Generally I'll read the first few posts, then skip to last page. If it's a topic of particular interest I work backwards several pages from there.

Unlike a lot of people I do not care at all how old a thread/post is, I will happily comment on old topics of interest that have previously passed me by. I'm a bit baffled by the whole "lol necro" response meme because to me the age of something doesn't implicitly impact on the validity for responding to it. It's far more likely I will find an interesting topic in the thousands of threads posted months/years ago than whatever the 30 most recently commented on topics are.

 

[Freakaknight]

2 jks, I've been mostly on the gpu threads that are at 2k now >< but before this I hadn't been on a forum for years, used to hang out on the escapist a lot, and there I'd follow threads for quite some time

Honestly forums seem archaic for the most part, now that we have things like discord

 

[Richie]

Anything over 6 pages or so, I will read the first one then the last.

Normally that determines if it has reduced to the point that's becoming so common - a couple of posters starting to dominate the thread who are more interested in scoring points of each other for things like spelling and other crap (quoting small sections of the other person's post to support their own side) rather than the topic itself.

 

[BeeP]

Ten pages? 1,000 posts?

Yeah but 900 of them are-
Yes it is
No it isn't
yes it is
No it isn't

And so on.

 

[robin66]

start at first page, see if its interesting then skip to the end

This is pretty much what I do also. If the thread isn't interesting enough or goes off-topic too much.

 

[Tuppy_Glossop]

Depends on the topic, the posters, and the level of bickering.

 

[Azza2142]

Depends on the topic, the posters, and the level of bickering.

This but even then usually less than 5 pages

 

[SexyGreyFox]

About 10 pages then i tend to start skim reading the last few posts.

Are these child pages or adult pages?

 

[V F]

Depends on the topic, the posters, and the level of bickering.

Yep, it can be pretty quick.

 

[dlockers]

Till I'm cancelled/thread banned.

 

[liamstears]

Do I have to read this whole thread before saying more than 1 post is enough?

 

[413x]

I read the entire queen wasp thread!
Haby birtdoy was another gem!

 

[dan958]

2