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What is the deal with multi-posting?
laura118b:
--- 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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But if you don't want to stand in the corner by yourself all night that's what you have to do. Unless someone starts a thread brand new, you kinda have to just jump right in there if you want to be part of the discussion.
DragonFire:
--- Quote from: laura118b on November 04, 2009, 10:03:15 PM ---But if you don't want to stand in the corner by yourself all night that's what you have to do. Unless someone starts a thread brand new, you kinda have to just jump right in there if you want to be part of the discussion.
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And that does mean that people aren't intending to be exclusionary...you simply aren't comfortable posting.
IN that sense, how would reporting them help??
laura118b:
--- Quote from: DragonFire on November 04, 2009, 10:07:32 PM ---And that does mean that people aren't intending to be exclusionary...you simply aren't comfortable posting.
IN that sense, how would reporting them help??
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Don't ask me, I was agreeing that it's not meant to lock people out, it just happens. ;)
DragonFire:
--- Quote from: laura118b on November 04, 2009, 10:24:56 PM ---Don't ask me, I was agreeing that it's not meant to lock people out, it just happens. ;)
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I was just asking generally, since we seemed to have a bit of a discussion going.
BookLover♥:
In terms of multi-posting in general, where I've seen it become an issue is when a thread is really active. You post one thought, and I start to respond, only to find when I hit "post" that you've posted another thought, which I now want to respond to as well. It can inhibit 'conversation' that way... I hold off on responding until I think you've completed your thoughts.
Perhaps is not intentional, and perhaps some of us are just not as assertive in our approach. Either way, it seems reasonable not to put the onus solely on those that feel excluded when multiposting is occurring... if you're in a situation where you're about to multi-post, consider whether it's a time when you can simply modify the existing post.
--- Quote from: DragonFire on November 04, 2009, 09:27:44 PM ---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.
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The issue I've seen with this, is that if you post while reading instead of waiting until you catch up, you don't know what else has been said about a particular subject or question. You may end up multi-posting even when you're addressing a single topic or poster.
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