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"Do you ever find yourself just ingoring people?"

[This is aimed mainly at the older regulars]

I was just reading Notable's thread from the start (a rarity) and I noticed how I seem to be skipping a load of people's posts without thinking about it. Worse, when I wanted to look back at what someone said, I spent ages finding their name because I literally gloss over it. It was as if it wasn't there.

Now, i know for certain I do this actively with threads in general. These days I only read (properly) threads by notables and about 10 regulars. Sure, I click on everything, but I usually just skim for certain subjects then have a look at the last page of replies for offerings by the aforementioned 22-ish people. This is partly because I'm a busy man and haven't got time to read crap threads/posts, but even when I WANT to waste some time I don't read topics by certain people. Maybe the Internet really DOES give you a 7-second attention span.

Does anyone else feel this way?

I read posts by people that tend to post well.

Thats about it, actually.

I read what looks interesting and I try to be interesting it's up to you who you ignore, people like that newb called notable are just a waste of time so either ignore them, humour them or make them look silly if they spam on purpose (like he did)

1/2 pint won't like this
Pocket Rocket aka Solid Snake
i remeber when i kept putting in threads like top 5 ps1 games etc
that really annoyed him but now i have learnt not to post crap threads.

I end up reading more than I post so it would seem that I'm rarely about.

Should I be insulted by your comments, or as you said, should i ignore the crap threads?

½pint wrote:
> I find myself ignoring what newbies say. I would ignore what you say, but
> recently I realised that you are clever in that you aren't an idiot ;-). So now
> I don't dislike you. :)


Oh! Cheers!

I try never to ignore people. The only posts I do ignore are usually full of text speak.

I find myself ignoring what newbies say. I would ignore what you say, but recently I realised that you are clever in that you aren't an idiot ;-). So now I don't dislike you. :)

[This is aimed mainly at the older regulars]

I was just reading Notable's thread from the start (a rarity) and I noticed how I seem to be skipping a load of people's posts without thinking about it. Worse, when I wanted to look back at what someone said, I spent ages finding their name because I literally gloss over it. It was as if it wasn't there.

Now, i know for certain I do this actively with threads in general. These days I only read (properly) threads by notables and about 10 regulars. Sure, I click on everything, but I usually just skim for certain subjects then have a look at the last page of replies for offerings by the aforementioned 22-ish people. This is partly because I'm a busy man and haven't got time to read crap threads/posts, but even when I WANT to waste some time I don't read topics by certain people. Maybe the Internet really DOES give you a 7-second attention span.

Does anyone else feel this way?