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[freddy]

Gotta save that precious internet space.

 

[DJ88]

It is literally the worst possible thing.

 

[Pankratous]

I hate it, incredibly annoying.

 

[Unai]

In many forum mod would merge your double/triple post and sometime even give you infraction for it, its kinda became known ethiquete in fotum browsing.. so I'm surprised there is people that saying "just do double post!" Because such a thing is something that could be punished in forum browsing, some of you only had GAF as forum or something?

But it is not double post at all the OP is talking about.

Imagine this:

Me: something something something

Someone: something else, something else, something else

Me: Quote=Someone
Oh, I see!

This is the right flow. But this is just wrong:

Me: something something something

Quote=Someone
something else, something else, something else

Oh, I see!

Someone: something else, something else, something else

 

[Wolfe]

I do this if someone posts while I'm typing up a post and it ends up being something I want to respond to or comment on. Otherwise I'll just make a new post.

Edit: wait, that doesn't make sense cause my post would come after theirs, I guess I don't do it then.

 

[eot]

Gotta maintain a 4 post a day average.

I'd ur over 5 ur embarrassing.

EDIT: anyone remember that kid who had a 75 post a day average? Turkishwarrior or something

4.93, living on the edge

 

[ThankeeSai]

Only time I do it is if I've asked a question and several people answer it. I will say thanks to the first person to answer, then quote everyone else who was kind enough to answer into my initial "thanks" post.

....If you follow me.

I can't follow you because you've broken the linear nature of the thread.

Ha!

Spoiler

I broke my own rules

 

[Basileus777]

Only time I do it is if I've asked a question and several people answer it. I will say thanks to the first person to answer, then quote everyone else who was kind enough to answer into my initial "thanks" post.

....If you follow me.

I can't follow you because you've broken the linear nature of the thread.

 

[Ogni-XR21]

I agree, it's incredibly annoying.

 

[olympia]

it depends on the degree of the response

 

[dose]

Yep, annoys the fuck out of me. You're effectively responding to someone who hasn't even spoke yet.

 

[dani_dc]

Yeah its rather annoying and confusing.

I once noticed a person quoting me this way. I was tempted to quote them on the post he quoted or in a post befoee his just to screw up with the situation even more.

But I didn't because I'm not that much of a bad person.

 

[HappyBivouac]

This shit is the worst. I don't care if you have 20 posts on a page; it's better than breaking the flow and confusing the shit out of people.

 

[kehs]

I'm not trying to tell the mods how to run things, but it should be a permeable offense to do it.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Future quotes are butt

The bad kind

 

[NearRivers]

Started to notice it recently and find it annoying. Unnecessary pretend time travellers. It disturbs thread continuity.

 

[CadetMahoney]

Because it looks like you're spamming the thread and ppl get pissed at that. Especially if it's only suitable for a one-liner reply anyway.

The responder can see the green highlighted box when their quoted too. The only time it's an issue is when the thread has high traffic so your last post can easily be missed if you edit in a reply. I hardly see anyone do it so I don't think it's an issue tbh.

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

Used to vex me when I first noticed it but now ehhh I don't care as much. Feels like some phantom quote when I can't find it further down the line tho haha.

 

[old]

I guess they want to get their words in first before their dissenters.

 

[Basileus777]

Because it looks like you're spamming the thread and ppl get pissed at that. Especially if it's only suitable for a one-liner reply anyway.

The responder can see the green highlighted box when their quoted too. The only time it's an issue is when the thread has high traffic so your last post can easily be missed if you edit in a reply. I hardly see anyone do it so I don't think it's an issue tbh.

They can only see if they decide to read old posts for whatever reason. I've had conversations with people end because I thought they never responded only to find out weeks later when looking at the thread that they edited in a reply in an old post for some god forsaken reason. Normal people use the see first unread post option. Threads on GAF work in a linear fashion, breaking that is stupid, if you have a worthwhile response make a new post.

 

[Wafflecakes]

Annoys the hell out of me too. Awful posting habit.

 

[Forkball]

I hate it when I read a thread, see someone quote another guy and think "huh, I didn't even see that post." I click on it and I'm taken like 20 posts down and have no idea where in the thread I am and everyone's talking about something else.

 

[hateradio]

I don't mind this as much as double or triple posting, especially if they're quoting each time.

Learn to multiquote.

 

[Earthpainting]

I do this if I feel like there was some confusion to my original post. If I'm not expecting a response from the person that asked me something, I'd rather clarify within the original post than post a new one. Otherwise you'll end up with situations where people will keep quoting you and making the same observation over and over again. It'd be nice if we could expect everyone to read the entire thread before making a reply, but the reality is that this is often not the case.

 

[Unai]

I don't mind this as much as double or triple posting, especially if they're quoting each time.

Learn to multiquote.

Again, this has nothing to do with double or triple posting.

 

[Thursday War]

People who do this need to be shot.

:lol

 

[John Kowalski]

It's fun to break the continuum.

Very annoying, makes threads very confusing to read. I almost think it should be a bannable offense to ruin the chronological flow like that.

What are you, the time travel police?

I don't know, but it should be bannable.

Crazy talk.

Is this so bad?

It feels like you haven't optimized your posts, which is irksome.

I've done it to avoid double posting.

Me too, especially when someone is answering an older post of mine immediately after i'm answering an older post of his. It feels like the conversation broke apart and you edit yourself to make it stick together, lest you begin having two conversations with the same poster.

 

[Wafflecakes]

I don't mind this as much as double or triple posting, especially if they're quoting each time.

Learn to multiquote.

Not the same issue at all...

 

[RoadHazard]

Very annoying, makes threads very confusing to read. I almost think it should be a bannable offense to ruin the chronological flow like that.

 

[LogicStep]

We could ask for a new rule... that way people will stop.

 

[Ray Wonder]

This thread is very confusing. Too many people editing.

 

[Pickman]

ITT: Everyone doing what drives OP crazy.

 

[Papercuts]

I hate this shit when I read every post on a page and wonder where the quote came from as I read it.

pls stop people.

 

[thecouncil]

I'm not trying to tell the mods how to run things, but it should be a permeable offense to do it.

how does that work?

 

[Drazgul]

how does that work?

Only solid members will get banned.

 

[Skux]

Yep, annoys the fuck out of me. You're effectively responding to someone who hasn't even spoke yet.

But you get the quote and the response at the same time, the experience for a reader is exactly the same.

 

[NekoFever]

I once went so anti this that I started blocking people who did it. I calmed down eventually but it's still an awful habit.

Stop it.

 

[S0N0S]

I find it annoying, ruins the flow of conversation, unnecessary, and rude to the poster you're responding to ahead of.

End this uncouth madness, please.

 

[sixteen-bit]

To save paper.

I wonder if there are posters who print threads out, lol

 

[FuuRe]

For god's sake

There's a hater for everything

 

[Mauricio_Magus]

I never do that, I just make a new post.

 

[Cuphead]

Wow I never knew how much hate this method got.

I'll stop!

 

[Unai]

Wow I never knew how much hate this method got.

I'll stop!

Thank you!

 

[Watevaman]

GAF is the only forum I've ever seen where people do this. Before I started just clicking on the quote arrow, I would sometimes go back like 3 pages to see where the quoted post was, only to not find it.

Future quoters, you are the worst.

 

[Randam]

I've always been slightly annoyed by this.

So am I.
Please stop doing it.
Every time I scroll up again to look for the post just to realize I haven even read it yet.

 

[SquiddyCracker]

What's worse though, is when you quote a post that's yet to be posted:

i don't see the problem

Damn right.

 

[Dr. Benton Quest]

I suppose that's me assuming everyone uses gaf like I do. By that I mean everyone searches for when they were quoted via the search function. That way I can see if anyone was interested in having a discussion with me and so on



Ha

GAF really needs quote notifications.

 

[Ty4on]

GAF really needs quote notifications.

It had them for a short while actually. It was awesome, but I think it messed something else up.

 

[Tesseract]

yeah it's annoying, and kinda petulant

 

[studyguy]

I do it all the time incase I just posted something. If someone quoted me or it's not my latest post then I'll just leave it be. If that bothers people then whatever, it's a message board.

Doing it now, you can't stop it