When it comes to questions you are interested in?

that you feel the urge to answer, do you read everybody else’s comments before or after you give your answer? If there are quite a few answers already given, I read a couple to see the tone of them, whether anyone has already answered what I intended to say, but then I will skip down and write my answer first, and then go back afterwards and read everyone else’s comments.

This to me keeps my thoughts as I intended, and allows me to keep my mind on the task at hand. Sometimes I am easily distracted, and it just works better this way for me. Does anyone else do this, or do you read everyone else’s answer before putting your own? It has come up on occasion that is not the way the asker would like it to be done. I just wonder if there is a protocol here that I have somehow missed.