why don't you click on ...

If I click into a cluster of 50, a request is sent, reply made to verify the connection, cluster downloaded. When I click the next cluster, a request is sent, reply made to verify the connection, and the next cluster sent.

Especially with DSL or better, anything less than about 200 posts is less burden on the 'cat server, as a single download, than two (or more) separate clicks, and takes less of my time.

Rarely I'll click a thread with 300 or so posts and let the 'cat take the hit; but I just don't often, except in very exceptional cases, visit a thread with more than around 300 posts, simply because I know from past experience that there's unlikely to be anything useful or of interest after the first 100.

If the first 100 posts don't reveal which pigheaded (see Spaw for additional adjectives) ...(and noun) started and is sustaining the troll the subject would have been resolved without attempting to break the server.

It's also very rare that I don't see threads that have even remote possibility of needing my contribution within the first 50 posts, and I don't need to feed trolls.

John