On message boards people simply respond to the title

[ChooseLiberty]

They don't actually read the post or articles.

 

[Kludge]

Depends on if the article is interesting or not.


Most generally, on these forums in particular, they tend to give ideas we've already gone over and agree with. I usually avoid them altogether and seek out talking points from the most heated arguments (arguing > debating).

 

[Defining Obscene]

I think it depends on a wordcounter.

 

[brandon]

If I click on a thread I almost always read the whole post. If the post is super long or not formatted sometimes I tag the thread tl;dr and skip over it.

 

[Sandra]

Or sometimmes the title is misleading as to the content of the post. Agrandizing to get clicks.

 

[Andrew-Austin]

Only if the subject matter in the thread title appears to be really boring, this thread being an example. I wish I had not clicked on this thread and read the posts in it, but I did. I should have trusted my judgment of the the title, that it would be really boring.

 

[coyote_sprit]

Didn't read your post only the title, voted anyway.

 

[Raditude]

The subject, the length of posts, and number of replies usually determines how I respond.

If it's a subject I feel strongly about, I will read through all posts, and make replies to many people's statements.

If it's a subject I have an opinion on, but it doesn't strike me hard, I'll just read the first post, and reply to it.

I don't just read the titles, but I read at least the initial post.

 

[Kotin]

troll.