"Why do TMPers click on topics of no interest to them?" Topic

You've seen it many times. Someone clicks on a topic they have no interest in. They complain about it being on TMP. Any ideas why they do this?

Sometimes it isn't obvious what a topic is about.

Some people like to complain.

Sometimes both.

Same reason people click on "12 Ways to Kill a Gerbil With a Melon. Number 5 Blew My Mind!"

You never know if the bug was hiding a good post.

Martin Rapier: +1

It's personality driven, or psychological. Some people think they know best and want to enlighten us unwashed masses or they just like to complain. :-)

people notoriously do not know how to fill in the topic line or just don't care to.

Now I feel guilty:

TMP link

I will try and improve.

Someone clicks on a topic they have no interest in. They complain about it being on TMP. Any ideas why they do this?

It seems they do have an interest of sorts.

I also gree with most of the comments made.

Now, do we really need silly posts like this?

Gluttons for punishment?

Heck! I clicked on this one, now I'm off to complain.

Extra Crispy
Same reason people click on "12 Ways to Kill a Gerbil With a Melon. Number 5 Blew My Mind!"

ROFLMAO!

Total lack of self-control……….

I often click on topics I have no interest in. This is usually because I don't know if I am interested until I read the first post!

I never complain about it existing, though. I'm sure someone will be interested.

Oh, yeah…..I can only think of seven ways to kill a gerbil with a melon. What are the others….?

Come to think of it, we do not seem to have had any good old grammatical pedantry for some time! Tracking down the loose infinitive or some such is always a reason to click on everything – thought provoked when I noticed a very common grammatical mistake in one of the above posts – but I ain't sayin' which!
:-)

Cerdic, ask Richard Gere….

I have no interest in this topic so why is everyone wasting my time by posting it.

Do the methods of killing gerbils with a melon work with hamsters?

Only ten of them.

Depends if you use the hamster to replace the gerbil, or the melon.

If you tie the hamster to the melon then you can possibly accomplish both.

Hamsters can be a serious agricultural pest. It is really important that we have reliable methods to control them.

Which 2 ways don't work?

Nervous tic.

I'm scrolling along with no intention of clicking on the Gerbil-Melon link and just when the mouse is over the link, my finger twitches. Then the screen is all, like, "GAAAAaaaaaahhhh!" and my mind is all, like "Ewwwwwwww!" Then I have to get the brain bleach…calm down my pet hamster…hit myself in the head with a melon a few times…Everything's all higgledy-piggledy.

Strange fact:

My 'Hamsters can be a serious agricultural pest.' quote is true…

Many years ago I worked for a company which had a subsidiary that made rat and mouse poisons. One time they got a query from a farmer in Kent -'do you have anything that works on hamsters?'

Seems people were releasing pet hamsters in the countryside and the things were breeding – and farmers found that traditional poisons didn't work very well…

I often click on topics I have no interest in because the conference call I happen to be on is droning on and on in repetitive boredom and I've already read through all the posts in which I am interested. (Such as now) Although I don't complain but I sometimes will question.

Not surprising. Gerbils are thought to have been main carrier of black death not the so much the black rat.
As an aside while we're on pesky rodents, rabbits don't get TB, not in understand, but suffer from.

I have no idea why they click on it. It's probably the same reason they click on a topic and chime in to tell everyone they have no opinion on it. Like we were all just DYING to know that.

Because they want to?

I suspect it's related to the defect that causes people to answer Amazon.com product questions with "Sorry, I don't know the answer to your question."

Why do birds, suddenly appear…

People just like to complain

I give up…why?

What is the punchline?

Curiosity?

Hello All,
Seeing as I am probably the cause of this post (although not exclusively), I think I'd better try and explain how I feel.

1. The site is called 'The Miniatures Page', perhaps it should more accurately be renamed ' The Miniatures, and Anything Else Which Takes Your Fancy Page.

2. As others have said, titles of posts aren't always accurate.

3. I enjoy The Miniatures Page, It has great content related to the hobby, be it wargaming, painting, modelling or just collecting. It's great for ideas, hints and tips and gleaning useful information from clever people and hard to find sources.

4. I find it frustrating that I can't filter out most of the non-wargaming/miniatures posts which don't interest me, because they appear on a diverse number of boards, some of which contain other useful information, and sometimes essential information, such as messages from Bill about site rules et al
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5.. Just my personal opinion, but I think they detract from my overall enjoyment of The Miniatures Page. This, from your response, is not the opinion of most of the other members (so be it) They way I see it, the number of unrelated posts pushes the other posts down the page, scrolling them off the other end too fast.

6. Perhaps the said posts could have their own board, a 'Non Hobby Related' board, so that I, and people of a like mind (there are some, I know), could then filter them out. (possibly a Poll for this Bill).

7. I've made my point now, I think. That many of you don't agree with me is obvious, so I will now desist from making comments on such posts (except this one), unless I have something to contribute.

8. As an afterthought, perhaps posters in the 'for sale/wanted section' could possibly give an indication of where they are prepared to sell their items. I've lost count of the number of adds I've opened, only to be told 'sorry, you can't buy this'. All it would require is an abbreviated notation in brackets in the title of the post such as (US), (L48), (UK), (EUR), (WW-for world wide).

Thanks for your time in reading this.
regards
Paul F

It is often the writer's fault by using an "intriguing" headline in order to get more attention. Thus they get more attention.

martin

There are certainly a lot of…

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…clickbait-style titles these days.

Because, if l scan over the Napoleonics page, and there's a topic with over 100 replies in a short space of time, you can put money on the fact Gazzola and Brech are up to their antics again. Settle down, make yourself a coffee, get a beer, and enjoy! The title is irrevalant!

John

Seeing as I am probably the cause of this post (although not exclusively), I think I'd better try and explain how I feel.

No sir, not you, and you bring up lots of good points I can agree with. This is a TMP tradition that everyone is guilty of, me included.

What if someone clicked on this topic without being interested in why they clicked on a topic that wasn't interesting to them? INCEPTION :)

@ Ed the Two Hour Wargames guy.
No problem with your post, I just wanted to voice my thoughts and clear my head (empty now! Lol)

…every time, you are near? …

I just wanted to point out I have nothing to say.

Doug