04-21-2021, 09:05 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-21-2021, 09:18 AM by CtrlAltDel.)
(04-20-2021, 04:28 PM)rich2005 Wrote: You do not always have to quote everything.
Rich, I've always like to "trim" the responses of whomever I am replying to and just include, in quotes, what I was specifically replying to in order to cut down on confusion. I've been around a while also and am aware of the quote function but this was a little different compared to any board I've used. In this particular instance, what you see posted on the board is just what I finally got out after I tired of trying to respond in the way that I wished.
I was specifically attempting to reply to two different posters with separate and unrelated remarks and was prevented from being able to do so. It took me by surprise because I've never encountered a setup like this and it was confusing. At first, I thought there may have been a time computation placed on the posts and you weren't allowed to make two individual posts within a certain time period. I waited about 10 minutes after the first reply and tried to individually respond to another poster in a second post. Again, no luck, they were combined.
What if I use no quotes at all and attempt to reply to two different posters, in the same thread, will the posts still be combined into one message? I'm honestly kind of apprehensive that this reply, the one I'm now typing, will be appended to the same one I posted yesterday in a mishmash of incomprehensible garble.
(04-20-2021, 03:32 PM)rickk Wrote: Always been that way here, far as I can recall. I believe they consider that to be more of a "feature" than a "bug". To force afterthoughts to be appended to their host ideas, and in the process thwart users who otherwise might try to inflate their post count.
It's very different, no doubt. There is no way to stop it, is there? I'm so confused I think I'll stop posting for a while, not that I ever posted that much to begin with so I hardly think I'll be missed.
This is different than everything I know about message boards and it's not intuitive.