Is a thread best read backwards?

[PIT2]

Sometimes i find myself reading threads backwards (from the last post to the first). I do it mainly when i can't be bothered to read the first replies and want to skip to the real action.

Amazingly when i do this, i understand peoples points better and quicker than i would do otherwise!

Is a thread best read backwards?

 

[Smurf]

The only reason I'm writing this is to move the number of posts above 1 so that it can be read backwards.

 

[rcgldr]

So was the movie "Memento" your favorite?

 

[dav2008]

!nalp ruoy deliof evah I

 

[Hootenanny]

!nalp ruoy deliof evah I

Haha read backwards... literally - funny

 

[Pengwuino]

I can't be bothered reading the first posts so i don't care what this threads about

 

[pallidin]

Sometimes i find myself reading threads backwards (from the last post to the first). I do it mainly when i can't be bothered to read the first replies and want to skip to the real action.

Amazingly when i do this, i understand peoples points better and quicker than i would do otherwise!

Is a thread best read backwards?

Actually, that can be true. In forums, it is not unusual to come across comments which seem to make no sense, such as mine :)
As the thread developes, often there is clarification on prior comments. Reading backwards, the original "non-sense" comment can become strikingly transformed into "sense"; an attribute not available by reading "forwards" one time.

Another curious aspect of reading forums "backwards" is that your mind challenges itself! That is, a last post comment to a previous post may not include actual reference to that previous post, so you mind say's "what's going-on here!" That can be quite stimulating.

 

[Mk]

I always read the thread killer's thread backwards. You can't read it forwards like Danger does.