Why it pays to READ THE DISCUSSION

I have seen people changing the meaning of their posts at the end just to check if the others were really reading their posts. I notice that most of the time people read the title and at most the first sentence. Some only read the last paragraph.

I remember that once Patsie Hatley was very disturbed after someone wrote an answer ABSOLUTLY out of context to one of her posts. And to add to your post, not all of us know how to write a good title that will do honors to the post. So, let´s read it all.

There are some very good writers whose titles scare me silly at times but when I get to the bottom of the post the story was not anything like I thought it would be. A certain lady who hasn't been starting many discussions recently is the undisputed master of this. You are very good at it too so especially when a title shocks me I will read the whole discussion to make sure I don't miss the good ones. I also read all the comments. There is nothing more boring than to find that more than one person has come to the same conclusion and made the exact same comment on a discussion. It's kind of like listening to a lecture and when the question and answer part starts the first person will give the answer and when the second person is called on instead of expanding on that answer or coming at it from a different angle they just repeat what the first person has said. It makes me think weren't they listening?

I don't understand what this post has to do with the price of eggs... Have I misread it? Oh. Right.

I noticed what you are on about too . . . Bad vibes and all that. . . Some people are too sensitive.

I do sometimes answer the title anyway, even if it has nothing to do with the actual discussion.

Oh I have had people yell at me by reading a title and not actually read the discussion. As I used a title that would draw attention.

I have to agree with you on this. If no one ever read the post itself, they would never know what it is about. I always read the posts, there is no other way to really respond to it if you don't. Great post here.

I agree! Sometimes people just cannot express themselves fully in a title of a few words!

Your post puts me in mind of the song "Killing Me Softly" by Roberta Flack. The song was allegedly about Don McLean. I'm not sure why.

I have a bad habit. I am a skimmer, lol. now and then that gets me into trouble

I've had some classics. I posted about seeing a guy who looked like Robert de Niro and half my comments were from people who hadn't read the post and thought I really did meet RdN.

Blimey! I thought I would get PAID by just reading the discussion. I was misled.......

A title describes the discussion so one should take acre of their title..

Okay, I read all of it... and to prove, it has the words "all" and "really" in bold And before I forget all of it, there is also one instance of and one instance of

So true that it's important to read the whole discussion. The other day I wrote a post about being dyslexic (or so my title suggested) but I got off topic and found my post was about something else entirely but didn't think to go back and change my title

Yes, the titles can definitely be deceiving, and language barriers can throw people off too.

A title is definitely the reflection of your discussion. one should have such title which would catch the attention of reader to read whole discussion

I think you love mysteries. Fine I will always read your entire discussion and respond.

I have noticed that. I agree with you that it really pays of to read the discussion. I read it because I don't want to be misguided by a title.