beachcomber, I'm in awe. Even as a GUEST, you manage to kill more than your share of threads, unlike any mere "amateur"? Good for you!

(Not this time, however....LOL)

I'll confess to occasionally skipping long messages in a thread, skipping to the end, and interjecting my own take. There are plenty enough threads I never open, of course, and when I do find a title that sparks my interest, I generally try to read everything in it, especially those discussions I find when they're still new, and which I manage to track pretty reguarly while ongoing.

But, yeah, there have been occasions when I've skipped over l-o-o-o-n-g posts, especially when they're the work of someone whose opinion I think I already know all too well. And of course, I'm more likely to skip expressions of opinions with which I expect to disagree ~ but I'll skip at least some lengthy expressions of viewpoints akin to my own, as well.