 AlcoholPremium
join:2003-05-26
Climax, MI
kudos:3 | reply to usa2k
Re: Wild Crazy Idea Wait, what? You want to limit the posts per thread?
Why?
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 usa2kBlessedPremium,MVM
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Redford, MI
kudos:3 | said by Alcohol:Wait, what? You want to limit the posts per thread? Why? Ha ha. |
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 statestress magnetPremium,Mod
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Purgatory
kudos:6 | 95 more posts and this topic is done... |
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usa2kBlessedPremium,MVM
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Redford, MI
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said by state:95 more posts and I need to actually reply to someone's comment I actually did read 
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AlcoholPremium
join:2003-05-26
Climax, MI
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 WillyPremium
join:2000-09-24
USA
kudos:1 | reply to Alcohol
said by Alcohol:Wait, what? You want to limit the posts per thread? Why? No eliminate the "Reply OP" button at the bottom of the page.
The purpose I guess is to have new posters replying to other posters in the thread instead of "Just" the OP.
I understand the point but don't agree.
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usa2kBlessedPremium,MVM
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Redford, MI
kudos:3 Reviews:
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| Re: Wild Crazy Idea If I reply to Willy instead of Mele20, then clicking "replied to Willy" takes you to a totally out of context post. That is what many people do by clicking reply to OP because they do not know better when they usually are simply responding to the last post in the thread, and that is the land of Stupidville where I would lead you you on this reply - because the context is unconnected. The reply might be as cryptic as "You are so right!". About what?
Try keeping up with »[Game] Can you identify this...? - its an attempt to play a game, but when the replies do not lead back to the current picture being guessed I cannot be bothered. The first post is irrelevant. Many discussions of a more serious nature spanning many pages of posts can morph into a good, but different discussion, still people reply like the first post still means something to their reply.
My time on this site lately is likely 6 hours a day broken into many return visits. Study, visit, study, visit, something else, visit ... I obviously have different habits here than you (mele20), and I ignore hundreds of threads as it is, so I feel I am being selective, and taking my time with the ones that have the right flow, or continue match my interest.
Anyway, my first post/suggestion would help break people of that bad habit. Perhaps its just a lost cause? Perhaps I should find better things than being here so much?
Too late and too tired to proofread. Hopefully I made some sense. Have a good night!
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Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | said by usa2k:Try keeping up with » [Game] Can you identify this...? - its an attempt to play a game, but when the replies do not lead back to the current picture being guessed I cannot be bothered. The first post is irrelevant. Many discussions of a more serious nature spanning many pages of posts can morph into a good, but different discussion, still people reply like the first post still means something to their reply. Anyway, my first post/suggestion would help break people of that bad habit. Perhaps its just a lost cause? Perhaps I should find better things than being here so much? Now that I went and looked at your example thread, I can see where your request could be useful in that forum. As I said earlier, I would support this on a forum by forum basis. That is a very long thread and in a thread like that the original post does become irrelevant. However, in the forums I frequent that is not the case at all so if your request is granted it should be on a forum by forum basis where the forum mod decides whether or not to implement it.
As for discussions of a more serious nature morphing into a different, but good discussion, where the OP's post becomes irrelevant, in the forums I frequent here that is cause for temporary ban from the forum and your and others OT posts to be deleted. I had this happen to me a couple of days ago actually. I didn't know there were any forums on this site where not strictly, at all times, adhering to the OP's first post was allowed. I am fairly often punished for the very behavior you say is ok and good...not so in the forums I post in! So, again, I suggest that your request, if granted, needs to be on a forum by forum basis and if done in that manner I support it.
Oh, and I get the stupidville now. That is an issue that has been discussed here many times over the years I have been here and the removal of subject post at the bottom was an attempt to unconfuse those who don't understand what Reply to OP and reply inside a particular post means and how those two reply buttons differ. It didn't seem to help and I still contend that the old reply to subject we had at the bottom of the page was not the same as reply to OP. But I am in a small minority on that. But that issue also is not really the same issue in different forums so I don't think globally applying things to all forums is a good idea a lot of the time.
I don't think you spend too much time here as long as it is enjoyable and I'm fine with your request if applied to forums like the one where you showed the example thread. But I don't think it should be applied to Security, Microsoft Help or some other forums. So, I think it should be at the discretion of the mod of each forum. Hmmm..I think I am repeating myself...sorry, I'm getting sleepy.
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usa2kBlessedPremium,MVM
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kudos:3 | Another perfect example on a thread I follow religiously.
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 drewAutomaticPremium
join:2002-07-10
Port Orchard, WA
kudos:6 | reply to Mele20
said by Mele20:I have been here and the removal of subject post at the bottom was an attempt to unconfuse those who don't understand what Reply to OP and reply inside a particular post means and how those two reply buttons differ. It didn't seem to help and I still contend that the old reply to subject we had at the bottom of the page was not the same as reply to OP. But I am in a small minority on that. I have absolutely no idea how "Reply to Subject" differs from "Reply to OP" other than the number, and specificity, of letters. It's nothing more than different verbiage, correct?
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Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | To me the distinction is that "reply to OP" means reply strictly to what the OP asked about or stated in his/her FIRST post.
"reply to SUBJECT" to me means reply to the entirety of the subject as it has EVOLVED in the thread and taken as a whole (and, of course, includes replying to other posts by the OP in the thread).
The two, to me, are quite distinct and not the same at all. But as I said earlier, I learned during the big discussions we had here about Reply to Subject, (when it was being debated about removing it as an attenpt to unconfuse folks), that I was in a small minority.
I realize that both reply to OP and the reply to subject (which we used to have) shows up when you post as a reply to the name of the OP so in that sense they are the same. But, by removing reply to subject, what I felt was being removed was our right to reply to the subject as a whole which I thought then, and still think, is extremely important to be able to do...but then cognition tests show my thinking abilities to be in a very small minority of those who usually end up as CEOs of major companies. That has never happened with me   so I don't know if I place much credence in those studies or how I score on those types of tests, but my point is that my thinking abilities are different (not saying they are better...just different) from the majority of folks so that is likely why I see this distinction so clearly and others don't see it at all.
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