Read the whole post before responding? Do you mean read each and every post in a thread completely?

When someone answers with a 50 line paragraph which does not come to the point or catch my interest quickly. I'll skip or skim. Is that wrong? Mudcat discussion is like a bar, the sloppy, the boring the long winded get ignored.

Mudcat may not be the greatest discussion site on the web. The learning curve seems to be way too high due to the high number of Mudcat lawyers who seem to be way too willing to tell you what you are doing wrong.

BOB,.......read the Permathreads and FAQ.

The permathreads and FAQ, and previous discussions seem to be the constitution and body of law and the interpretations seem to be virtually endless.

I've asked questions and been refered to previous discussions. Only to find myself sifting through a hundred posts for a two post answer. Or even worse something with a similar topic with nothin germain to the question. I say if you ask a polite, thoughtful question, catters should either try to answer it well or shut up. If they don't tell how the other thread is helpful, what to look for and where within the thread. then you should send them a polite PM asking them to take the pineapple out of their Butt.

And when asking for opinion......

I have to tell you that reading someone else's 6 month old conversation is not my idea of fun. I don't feel the information is as current as it might be. And the thread drift becomes many more times as tedious and irrelevant.

I wanted to discuss "O Brother where Art Thow" once so I posted a topic on it which was immediately squelched with. WE talked about that ages ago, look here and here. If I started a conversation with you would you hand me a recording of an old one before you are willing to talk?

The one rule of Mudcat is that you have to wade through a lot of garbage to participate in Mudcat.