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What is the deal with multi-posting?
comprex:
--- Quote from: Áine on November 04, 2009, 08:37:36 PM --- Those are completely understandable. There are a few threads going around the Spoiler section with multiple people making 3,4, or more multiposts in a row on multiple pages. To me, and the sense I get from talking to other people, gives an exclusionary or monopolistic impression.
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How can it be 'exclusionary' if no one is actually _blocked_ from making any given post?
???
Sorry, Áine, but coming down on multiposting seems to me a way to guarantee mob rule where 3, 4, 5, "me too!" posters can gang up on one dissenter.
DragonFire:
I've been guilty of multi posting lately, but it's not an attempt to drown out others.
Given the time difference between me and a lot of posters, I will re-enter a thread to find 4 or 5 pages of discussion has gone on.
I tend to reply to posts as I read them, rather than at the end, so I might post 3 or 5 responses, to different people, on different parts of the arguement.
Sometimes, you don't WANT to write a monster post out to 3 different people, or you want to clearly seperate or delineate your ideas, so you post it in seperate chunks.
If no one else posts in between, you get a multi post.
On my side, at least, it's not intended to be malicious.
Aine:
--- Quote from: squeemonster on November 04, 2009, 09:24:35 PM ---How can it be 'exclusionary' if no one is actually _blocked_ from making any given post?
???
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If you have a bunch of individual conversations going on, it seems to me, that it *excludes* everyone who is not already involved in that conversation. I wouldn't just randomly start going up to people at a party and listen in and interrupt their conversation. That's what I mean by "exclusionary," to people who might otherwise want to join in or discuss a topic.
--- Quote --- Sorry, Áine, but coming down on multiposting seems to me a way to guarantee mob rule where 3, 4, 5, "me too!" posters can gang up on one dissenter.
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Perhaps it is just the overall /aura/ of some of the Spoilers threads that makes it seem that way and it /is/ just my perception, but how is this any different that what already happens now?
DragonFire:
--- Quote from: Áine on November 04, 2009, 09:41:01 PM ---If you have a bunch of individual conversations going on, it seems to me, that it *excludes* everyone who is not already involved in that conversation. I wouldn't just randomly start going up to people at a party and listen in and interrupt their conversation. That's what I mean by "exclusionary," to people who might otherwise want to join in or discuss a topic.
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IF you want to post, post.
By this logic...a 10 page thread is exclusionary, because it's interrupting to post on it then.
The beauty of a forum is that it's not 'interrupting' to post on it, regardless if 2 or more people are having a back and forth.
--- Quote from: Áine on November 04, 2009, 09:41:01 PM ---
Perhaps it is just the overall /aura/ of some of the Spoilers threads that makes it seem that way and it /is/ just my perception, but how is this any different that what already happens now?
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How do you mean?
comprex:
--- Quote from: Áine on November 04, 2009, 09:41:01 PM ---If you have a bunch of individual conversations going on, it seems to me, that it *excludes* everyone who is not already involved in that conversation. I wouldn't just randomly start going up to people at a party and listen in and interrupt their conversation.
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Forum posting really stretches that analogy to breaking, imo. If we were to stand strictly by that model, you'd be hard put to join -any- thread unless you were one of the first 3-4 responders.
--- Quote --- That's what I mean by "exclusionary," to people who might otherwise want to join in or discuss a topic.
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To me, reading up on what has been posted in the thread already, and having something to add, is sufficient to justify anyone posting anywhere, really.
If one person can meaningfully field and provide responses to 3, 4, 5, 17 dozen questions in assorted colours, I'm willing to support their wish to do so.
I'm gonna talk to them. Until they run out of fun, amusing, interesting, clever things to post that is.
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