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Enthusiast
Join Date: Feb-2005
Location: Carlsbad, California..coastal desert
Country: United States
Posts: 5,433
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Originally Posted by Walter_Pall
One has to see that frequent readers read forums like one reads a newspaper. I have yet to meet the person that reads every single article in a newspaper. This is what the headings are for. Experienced readers see the headings and then who has started the thread. That eliminates more than 90% already if you are in a hurry. Then after a while reading the same headings and seeing the hit rates going up one gets interested an reads something that was oveseen in the first screening. That' how it works for me at least. Otherwise I could never read all these forums anyway.
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This is an excellent point, Walter. It is how many of us read the forums. You only look at what interests you. (Which is why a good title will bring more attention to your thread!) Then, if a thread seems to be going on for a long time, you check it and see what is being discussed. So many of the little threads are asking for information which has already been given over and over, that a busy person just ignores a lot of them. You have to.
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