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What is the deal with multi-posting?
Aine:
Is it a reportable offense?
I don't know if it was the norm in TT, but, in my opinion, it looks like more people seem to be posting multiple times in a row in the Spoilers section as a way of drowning out others by sheer quantity.
iago:
If that's genuinely what's going on, I am not okay with it, but I'm leaving day to day enforcement up to the Mod Squad right now.
Aine:
I just sense from conversations here and in the chat room that there is a level of frustration with wanting to talk about the books and not being able to because your opinion is squashed or drowned.
It could just be laziness, though. ;)
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Áine on November 04, 2009, 06:16:21 PM ---I just sense from conversations here and in the chat room that there is a level of frustration with wanting to talk about the books and not being able to because your opinion is squashed or drowned.
It could just be laziness, though. ;)
--- End quote ---
From my perspective, as someone who checks the forums irregularly through the day and not every day depending on how work is going, if there's a high-volume discussion going in which I am interested in participating, responding to every point of interest separately is a way both of keeping straight what I am saying to whom, and of showing respect for each poster individually. And if I'm away for a while it's easy for that to mean I have six different things to post in a row when I come back. There's certainly no intent to swamp anyone else's opinion there.
Blaze:
Sometimes I multi-post in a row in a topic, to complete a line of thought, or add stuff (as with Abielle worried about being fat in the character pic thread) but I do it as opposed to modifying and modifying my previous post to a screen busting size. Or because I don't know if someone else is posting in the interim. (I feel rude modifying a post someone else has already posted after it.) Never to crowd out another poster.
What would be a the better protocol?
And would multiple posting prevent others for voicing an opinion? What is the prescribed lag between posts?
That would be an easy fix, to set the time between post as a glacial 30 seconds. Torture to those who touch type and speed read.
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