I hate jumping in to a topic with 150+ comments.

I hate going on any thread with over than 3 pages of comments. I definitely agree your voice or opinion would be lost or got mentioned before. But then starting another topic would only get the thread locked so...

sadly, that's how internet forums are.

@FourWude: @Ahmad_Metallic: It's not really "de-railed" when it's just you two having a private conversation, haha. 

@Getz said:

@FourWude: @Ahmad_Metallic: It's not really "de-railed" when it's just you two having a private conversation, haha. 

I've seen that happen in many threads. Sometimes a thread will be 6 pages long and two people having a conversation make up 3 of those pages.

@Getz said:

@FourWude: @Ahmad_Metallic: It's not really "de-railed" when it's just you two having a private conversation, haha. 

I've seen that happen in many threads. Sometimes a thread will be 6 pages long and two people having a conversation make up 3 of those pages.

That's pretty much what most long ass threads are like. It ends up with a few people bitching over something which has nothing to do with the thread in question.

I don't know but this thread is de-railing quite a bit. It's barely on topic now, people just spam posting to push it past 150.... although I'm guilty as charged of that offence.

Getting in on this action while it still young and under 60.

@Claude said:

@Getz said:

@FourWude: @Ahmad_Metallic: It's not really "de-railed" when it's just you two having a private conversation, haha. 

I've seen that happen in many threads. Sometimes a thread will be 6 pages long and two people having a conversation make up 3 of those pages.

That's pretty much what most long ass threads are like. It ends up with a few people bitching over something which has nothing to do with the thread in question.

I don't know but this thread is de-railing quite a bit. It's barely on topic now, people just spam posting to push it past 150.... although I'm guilty as charged of that offence.

@Claude said:

@Getz said:

@FourWude: @Ahmad_Metallic: It's not really "de-railed" when it's just you two having a private conversation, haha. 

I've seen that happen in many threads. Sometimes a thread will be 6 pages long and two people having a conversation make up 3 of those pages.

Yeah, that's the magic of @replies creating a PM.

You hate 150+ comments? Why 150? Is 149 ok?

I enjoy lo,g threads but I usually skip to the last page to see what's going on

You hate 150+ comments? Why 150? Is 149 ok?

Getting in on this action while it still young and under 60.

Just for fun I'm reading every post in this thread. 

Getting in on this action while it still young and under 60.

We're at retirement age now.

@Jasta said:

Getting in on this action while it still young and under 60.

That's illegal in most states.

What if you're in that thread from beginning to end, what then? Do you read those random comments that show up on a page? People read them, your opinion matters no matter how asinine. I need to go pee.

69!

AbsolutePunk is the worst about long threads. The music threads especially. One topic has over 3,000 replies. Maybe I'm just different but I think their community is too big. There's no connection to the community whatsoever, it's just a bunch of names and icons. You don't get to know anybody specifically on the forums like you do here or on any smaller forum.

AbsolutePunk is the worst about long threads. The music threads especially. One topic has over 3,000 replies. Maybe I'm just different but I think their community is too big. There's no connection to the community whatsoever, it's just a bunch of names and icons. You don't get to know anybody specifically on the forums like you do here or on any smaller forum.

Does anybody else want to get this past 150 comments and watch the whole thread collapse like somebody blew up a long abandoned building?

I didn't read any comments past the first page. Did I prove a point?

Does anybody else want to get this past 150 comments and watch the whole thread collapse like somebody blew up a long abandoned building?

@Video_Game_King said:

Does anybody else want to get this past 150 comments and watch the whole thread collapse like somebody blew up a long abandoned building?

I'm just hoping a Mod locks this at 149. Now that's irony.

Jumping in after reading a post or two on the first page. I'm pretty special and unique.

Just to add to my individuality, I'll probably never return. It's the perfect crime.

In topics like this with more then 2 pages I will just read the OP and maybe 4-5 posts below it, then skip to the last 4-5 posts and go from there.

yeah, threads get complicated after a while. once a topic get's a lot of post the thread gets crazy.

Well, I for one find the n word to be highly offensive!

What I would love to see is a moderator locking this before reaching 150 posts, just to be humorous.  There isn't much going on in this thread worth discussing, but I will at least attempt it.

Regardless of the length of the thread, usually a forum thread stays good so long as the parties involved are intelligent enough and mature enough to engage in conversation with the intent of furthering the topic along, having everyone learn something whether it was a minor or major learning experience.  However so long as literally anyone can join in a public forum thread, there will always be a portion of a public thread filled with useless words coming out of immature people that find a kick in harassing others either directly or with passive literary methods.

I just hop in a thread regardless to see if there is anything of value to me personally to discuss or make a comment on.  Otherwise I just move on to another one.  Just because the immaturity happens often in long threads, it doesn't mean I will not give an unread one a chance first.