<b>dont you feel special when you make the first post in a thread?</b> No, not particularly. It just means that I was one of the people online at the time and just happened to read a new thread first and I felt like responding to it.

<b>but anyway, how do you think being the first poster is good (or bad)</b> It's not good or bad. It might be good because your opinion will be posted before everyone else comes in and posts basically the same thing. Bad because sometimes it's good to read a lot of different opinions and maybe find something that you haven't considered before so your response after reading a lot of posts before yours will end up being different than if you made the first post.

<b>how do you feel when you start a very active topic?</b> I never start threads so I have no opinion on that.

<b>Do you read through all of the posts in a topic with lots of posts, or do you read the first few and then post for yourself?</b> I always read every post in a thread before I make a post myself.

<b>or maybe you just skip right to the reply button.</b> No, I never do that and it's quite easy to recognize the people who do do that.