sissymaidlola -> RE: mb posting etiquette (3/5/2005 9:20:07 PM)
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Ummmm....not trying to be rude or anything but I find it confusing when the name of a post gets changed in the middle of it ... Not to mention that the OP might take offense that their post gets renamed. Hi erin, sissy Doesn't consider your post rude ... but please don't consider his response rude either, erin. You seem to be a little confused between the difference between a post and a thread. The thread has a name which it takes from the original post (OP) that started it. Every post on that thread also has an individual name, but each post takes as a default for that name the name of the previous post (the one it is posted against in the tree structure, that is, not the previous post chronologically). sissy Did not change the name of the OP, nor any other post on the thread, as you claim. He merely gave his own post its own unique name. That is good (NOT bad) message board etiquette. It is very confusing when one reads a thread with 10 pages or more (200-300) of posts which ALL have the same default name. Try going back to such a thread to try and find a post you read on some particular point when all the posts are similarly named. However, if a month from now you wanted to revisit this encounter between us here, and this thread was now 20 pages long, you could still easily find it because you would remember it was in a sub-thread entitled "Context is everything." The tacit rules for post naming are: if your post is on the same subject as the post you are posting it against, then leave the default name in place (already automatically prefixed with the "RE:"). But if you are introducing a new topic to the post that you are posting against, then give it a new name. sissy Felt he was introducing a new concept of "context" to the topic that he was posting against, hence a new name. If your post had added more information to the topic of "context" than sissy's then it should have been titled: "RE: context is everything." As it is, you should really have given your post a new name to go with its new subject matter, such as "posting etiquette." Those are the normal message board posting conventions. Should you doubt the truth and logic of the foregoing, ask yourself this. According to your rules, introducing a post with a different name in the middle of a thread could be considered to be insulting to the poster of the OP. In that case, every post on a thread must take the same name as the thread (and OP) itself, and no one need ever name a post themselves (because the default post name will always carry through from the prior post right on back to the OP). So why is there an input box labeled "Subject" in the top left hand corner of dialogue window in which you input your post ? That box would be read-only instead of user inputable (sissy just made that word up <giggles>) if we were not supposed to name our own posts. If everybody followed the rules, the tree structure of threads would look something as follows: original post ..RE: original post ....RE: original post ......new thought for this subthread ........RE: new thought for this subthread ..........RE: new thought for this subthread ............RE: new thought for this subthread ..............a second new concept ................RE: a second new concept ..................RE: a second new concept ................RE: a second new concept ............RE: new thought for this subthread ..............RE: new thought for this subthread ................RE: new thought for this subthread ..................RE: new thought for this subthread ..........RE: new thought for this subthread ........RE: new thought for this subthread ........RE: new thought for this subthread ......RE: original post ..RE: original post ....RE: original post ..RE: original post Now don't you think that is a little clearer and more useful than every post in the thread appearing the same ? Take care. sissy maid lola [image]local://upfiles/21203/7550AAD373274EA8911F0BC3852D002C.jpg[/image]
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