Not reading all posts in a thread

[annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, <silverdragon at e...> wrote:
> SnapesSlytherin at a... wrote
> 
> >>> Is there any way that this can be stopped?  Like, a reminder once
> a month or something?  I only mention this because it just happened
> today with the "Wizard to Ghost" thread.  I quoted a page and then a
> few posts later a different person quoted the same thing I did,
> obviously not having read what I wrote.  This could just be a pet
> peeve of mine though.<<<
> 
> 
> 
> Also, sometimes you can log on and get the original message and
write a response off-line like many of us with dial-up connections.
With the time differences around the world, there may not have *been*
a response as you compose yours and it goes to your outbox ready to be
sent later. When you log on again, however, there could have been a
number of responses in the meantime, perhaps saying saying the same
thing your message just did. There isn't really a way around that, and
to say too much may discourage some people from posting at all. 
> 
> It's happened to me a number of times, and I think we just have to
put up with it.
> 
> Just thinking out loud...
> 
> Nox

This just happened to me when writing a response *online.*  When I
read the question someone posted about why in SS it said "there were
only three people left to be sorted..." and then *four* people were
sorted, it was the very last post there was.  By the time I'd written
and posted my response, on webview, someone else had already posted one.

Also, sometimes I have gotten caught by the fact that some responses
aren't threaded.  I always read the list on webview.  If I came across
a post I wanted to respond to, but still had, say, 30 more posts left
to read, I used to just check the end of that post for replies, read
those, and then post if no one had said what I wanted to.  Then as I
read along, I'd find other replies that weren't on the threading
function -- either they were from people apparently replying to Daily
Digests, or they were part of a combined batch of replies (such as
Rita aka "Catlady" does), and sometimes they'd already said what I'd
just posted.  So now I try to read *all* the posts before replying to
any.  Still, that can be difficult, and I can see how someone might be
constrained by time to try to follow individual threads only.

Annemehr
taking a break from Friday's posts this Sunday, so obviously won't be
posting on the main list for a while...