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What is the deal with multi-posting?
iago:
Yeah, I'm sensitive to the notion of replying separately to each poster's response -- I'm certainly guilty of doing that on forums occasionally. If someone's doing that with a *clear intent* of drowning out other people, that's a problem. If they're not, though -- well, I think that can only be solved in the "social layer" of things, rather in the "policy layer". Something as simple as "Hey, dude, you're not giving other folks a chance to get the word in. Could you give it a rest for a couple hours?"
Blaze:
Sounds fair to me. Thanks Iago! *HUGS*
Aine:
--- Quote from: neurovore on November 04, 2009, 06:30:03 PM ---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.
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Just my $.02, but it seems that having six or seven individual conversations with one person at the center seems contrary to the atmosphere of genial group discussion. Though most of the Changes/Susan-centered Spoiler threads that I have seen have lost the atmosphere of "genial" by now at any rate.
--- Quote from: Blaze on November 04, 2009, 07:17:48 PM ---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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Sorry, Blaze, I wasn't talking about the general oops multi-post that we all do occasionally or the "it has been too long since my original post to go back and modify it 'cause no one will see it" type deal. 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.
iago:
--- Quote from: Áine on November 04, 2009, 08:37:36 PM ---Just my $.02, but it seems that having six or seven individual conversations with one person at the center seems contrary to the atmosphere of genial group discussion. Though most of the Changes/Susan-centered Spoiler threads that I have seen have lost the atmosphere of "genial" by now at any rate.
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I would invite you to start a separate thread in those circumstances, and ignore the one that's troubling you so. Or at least to try to step back and consider the idea that the individual in question isn't *intending* the effect that *you* perceive to be happening.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Áine on November 04, 2009, 08:37:36 PM --- 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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That's certainly not my intent, but it seems to me that, while that might well be the effect in a real-time conversation, a conversation in a textual medium lets people go back and pay as much or as little attention as they like to whichever parts interest them, so I don't myself read volume of content as competitive at all; it doesn't feel to me like anyone posting large amounts is demanding anyone's attention because it's trivial to skip over if you only want to follow part of what's being discussed in a given thread.
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