do you read ENTIRE posts?

for me i dont read long stories i prefer summerised ones it makes your reader want to read it more and more not given them a big task.

Honestly, I don't. I prefer short, to-the-point discussions. Its also the same with discussions that have a lot of responses. Anything with more than thirty is a turn-off for me because to understand it's scope, you have to read EVERYTHING, and I don't have that time. This discussion isn't long though.

Yes I read the whole introduction post of the discussion and if there are already responses I read them too. I feel I cannot respond without having seen others opinions first and it also avoids repeating what has already been said. If you find yourself writing a lot but it is all relevant to your topic then I think, go ahead and write. Just like everything, you can please some and not others. I would certainly give more consideration to a discussion with even an excessively long introduction than to one with a one line opener - but that's just me Happy MyLotting!

when i first joined this web, i read the whole of it. now i just skip and scam, for those short posts or medium long posts, i read them all. in fact, we don't need to read every single word as long as we can catch the main idea.

Well i dont always read the entire post but i get the perfect idea about what the post means and what is it asking!

For me, it depends whether the text on the thread starter is relevant to the point the discussion is making. If the point of the thread is about, say, swimming. And there's this whole BLOCK of text that details the poster's experience about skate-boarding that was only slightly related to the subject (like how the empty pool was used or something) and could have been edited out completely without changing the thought of the post, well. Yeah, I'll skip that. If it's related to the topic, though, I'll read the whole post completely. One other thing that ensures completely readage from me (yeah, okay, readage is not a word; let's pretend it is ^_-) is spelling. I understand that not everyone has the time to write their thoughts properly, but it is so much easier on the eyes when it is written out well. I don't even really care about grammar because people make mistakes all the time. But if you're starting a discussion and there's whole blocks of paragraphs in your first post, the little effort it takes to type out y-o-u instead of U is very much appreciated from me. :)