The creator of the thread means absolutely nothing to me. The thread title can mean a lot in some instances but some topics are indeed done to death and are usually pretty shitty. I suppose my reasons for opening a thread probably vary mostly on my mood and at the end of the day, it's only a few minutes wasted if it's got nothing for you.
My routine when visiting the site is I hit my bookmarked MS forum then from there I hit the VGChartz tab at the top of the page, look that over for something new then scan the hot topics. Hot topics is the only thing that gets me to stray from posting exclusively in the MS forum. I also usually just read threads and don't post because a lot of the times what I would have posted has already been said or my natural reaction would be to say something offensive. I try to keep myself in check from being too rude because I see it as mostly a lose lose situation. Another thing that keeps me from posting is that I normally don't care to get into these drawn out exchanges with other posters, good or bad.
I LOVE paying for Xbox Live! I also love that my love for it pisses off so many people.
