General forum question: Does a thread already having a lot of responses deter you from responding yourself??

The question was worded poorly, sorry; it's really late. 
 
Anyway,  
 
I was thinking about this a bit (bored with reading my assigned English reading) and I noticed that I am less likely to respond to a thread in a serious, thought-out manner if it already has a ton of posts. Reason being: I just don't feel like typing a HUGE load of text considering that (A) Most people won't read past the first page to begin with; and (B) Someone will have already said my sentiment but maybe in a different phrasing. 
 
I don't know, what do you guys and gals think?

Usually by then there is already a conversation going and people will just overlook my own comment for someone who has already established an argument.

Speaking of which, have you seen this? So terribly scared of posting in here anymore.  

well there is a feeling that you're late to the party

Most of my forum posts are just sarcastic quips, so the longer a thread is, the less relevant they seem. It also becomes increasingly likely that somewhere, buried within the many pages of conversation that I am not going to bother reading, someone else already made the same comment. 
 
So yeah... if the thread is too long I generally don't bother.

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Usually by then there is already a conversation going and people will just overlook my own comment for someone who has already established an argument.

Speaking of which, have you seen this? So terribly scared of posting in here anymore.  

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I feel exactly the same way. I especially hate doing it when I look through a thread and see after 30-60 posts nobody answered their question, and I do and nobody seems to care. I've written quite a few detailed explanations of various things only to have them looked over, and the topic--which could have been easily ended if they had only read my response--continues.

Sometimes, kinda depends on the thread in question, If it is something like the Photoshop thread, then I will acknowledge the work of others with a reply,

 
If it is in a thread that I have posted in and I get an @ reply then depending on the age of said thread, or the nature of my reply (Ie: personal or off topic) I will either reply back through the Automated PM that is sent, or I will do an @ reply back to them.  
 
If it is a thread that I created, then I will answer back or supply more Info as the thread goes on, But I will not "Bump" said thread without actual content that it needs,  
 
If it is a massive thread like some of the ones that we get when there is a ruckus, depending on the weight of the subject at hand, and how I feel about said topic, then I will either contribute my 2 cents, or go back and read some of the responses,  
 
I usually skim through these types of topics anyway, reading the post's of people I recognize or people that I respect and follow and if I find something that I would like to discuss I will quote and continue that.

It's going to be crazy-meta when this thread gets to three pages and people are too intimidated to do anything else than vote.

@HaltlamReptar  
Haha, too true, 
 
Another thing that I forgot to mention, I get annoyed when people who's post's I like to read change their damn Avatar, As that is how I recognize Users.

This thread was almost too long for me to respond to without feeling lost in the sea of replies.  Glad to see I'm not alone.

If it gets too long, I usually drop some @s and quotes to get a response. 
 
However, if it gets too long, it's usually because someone said something somewhat religious in nature, and everyone has to lump all theists together and denounce them, and there is absolutely no merit to doing that, especially not here.

Yeah, im sure that my opinion has already been stated in a huge thread. Unless i'm in the middle of a debate of some sort, i dont bother with threads that have been posted in over 100 times.

Yeah, I'm just too lazy to scroll through multiple posts on multiple pages.  

Yeah it totally does, why waste time if I know nobody will ever read it.

No.  I like to share my own opinion on the subject.

At times it does but most of the time I do not pay attention to the number of posts it got.

No way.

I figure once a thread has a few pages already, most of what is worthwhile saying has already been said.  Consequently a few threads that have had a lot of traffic by the time I log in, which I have an interest in, I will still give a miss.

Yeah, because most of the time my post will be ignored, and sometimes I don't have the patience to read the whole topic, especially when it's a very tidbitty topic like that about Assassin's Creed 2 ending.

By the way, I smell that this thread will be long. And that would be fucking ironic.

When I go into a thread I usually feel the need to read all the posts in that thread, both to make sure I'm not repeating something that has already been said and also to see if there are any particularly relevant responses I may want to know about before replying myself. Usually when the thread is longer I know that reading through that entire thread will take me a fair amount of time and so I may leave the thread and come back to it later, but in a few cases it has meant that I've refrained from posting at all.

No, if I have something to say I'll still say it. I look forward to posting in this thread again when it's like 20 pages long.

Usually not, but it tends to depend on the nature of the thread. If a lot of people have already expressed the opinion I'm going to post then there's not much point.

Nope, I don't. If I have something to contribute with, I will. Of course it also depends on what the thread is about, but if it's something serious, I will still write what I have to say.

Yes. A lot fo us on GiantBomb share a similar mind set, thus a lot of opinions are just said over and over. 

This thread has far too many posts for me to feel comfortable joining in.

If this thread exceeds 3+ pages will people still respond?
 
I find myself steering away from threads with a lot of discussion because I feel at some point, someone has already said what I was going to. And I don't want to be that guy.

It doesn't really deter me from posting if I have something new to bring to the discussion, or I feel a point made earlier needs reiterating, but generally in a long thread the point I would be making has already been talked about to death, so there is often not a huge necessity for me to post in larger threads.

Someone has usually said what I plan on saying by the time I find the thread, so rather than making it even longer by repeating what's been said I usually just stay away.

Yeah, it sort of does. I feel like no one will read my post if it's lost in a massive thread, so significantly less people would end up seeing it. I guess this may be an irrational approach, but deep down it often prevents me from posting. 

This thread is already at that tldnr point. For all the reasons posted before i usually don't bother posting in threads more than 3-4 pages in. However i have discovered a morbid interest in reading locked threads. When ever i see a thread was locked i immediately open it, go to the last post to see what comment the MOD posted as to why they locked it, and if it is something interesting i have to go back and see how the thread ended up there. It's like the internet equivalent to a car crash. You know its ugly but you just cant look away.

" This thread is already at that tldnr point. "

No.  It's more the date on the thread that deters me.  If it's more than a month old, I usually won't comment on it, simply because I know that it probably won't get many more visitors. 
I do sometimes break this rule, however.

yep...

Yes because I don't normally want to post something someone already said, and I don't want to read through so much stuff that by the time I am done its like 3 hours later.

yes, but i feel stupid when everyone has a big wall of text and i just have a sentence.

Sometimes.

Yes, because someone was probably said the same thing I would have said, so it seems kinda pointless.

not from posting my opinion. But at that point I know nobody will read my post, so kind of

Yes, because if its an argument to intense for my taste, i will get bored of it,  but some of those threads are really entertaining.