I think most of us are guilty (at various times) of clicking the most recent page in a thread, or jumping to a notification that someone replied to us, and simply replying to that reply, without reading the comments that were made between what we originally wrote and the reply we were notified about.
As for “whether to bother”…..
I can say that I notice when people don’t bother. We’re a small group, and when someone all of a sudden just says they aren’t gonna bother, I definitely notice that I haven’t seen them contribute at their usual frequency.
I mean, there was also a couple months back that I thought that JPP, mcp, Per, Chef, Carl, Snoozi, Tciso, Nuckertuzzi, Reefer, Carl, Cuz, and dbr, had all quit or died or something…..but then I remembered I had put them all on ignore. So I mean that was my own fault.
