I just became a victim of my example. I replied to a post on the 'who are you voting for' thread, and found another post to which I feel the need to reply. Right now, however, I'm stuck until someone else posts so I can continue quoting the original post and add my rebuttal. ------------------------------ Anonycea's idea - topic break ------------------------------ Well I just edited my other post (as I'm doing here) so I can further contribute to the conversation. I just wonder if anyone will notice the edit and find my new comments?
Yes I seen your additional comment, the problem is if no one goes back to read past posts. Most folks that read the entire thread will see your post, the problem is in the heat of the moment when threads are hot folks may miss your additional point. I tell you that Shawn will solve these problems, just keep bringing up your bad stuff in this thread and let him look the thread over a couple times. He will figure something out. Just keep posting your thoughts if you have a problem.
It's not really an issue of if there are times it works better with multiple posts. I'm not disagreeing there... I think there *are* times when sequential posts would be more appropriate. Unfortunately some people (and I'm not talking just about "new" members)... Even people talking about it in this thread on occasion do it inappropriately in my opinion. Even that in itself isn't a big deal, but compound that with the newbies just trying to run up their post count and then it becomes an issue of how much time I really want to spend editing and babysitting members. So what it's *really* about is how much of the mindless moderation can be solved programmatically. The more that can be automated, the longer we can go without a posse of moderators (which I'm trying to avoid). Take for example the signature enforcement... it's automated (no more than 4 links and 3 lines). Just enforcing that one small rule could become a full-time job for someone if it was just a "rule" that wasn't automatically enforced. I don't think the current setup is an ideal solution (I'm still thinking on how to make it better... and I do actually read the comments about it), so I'm in agreement there. I have a couple ideas already that might work for everyone, but I don't want to keep changing it so waiting a little bit to see if a better idea surfaces or not.
Lots of good sugestions here. I think it needs to be changed 'back' a little bit, but not like it was because of the spammy threads of multiple posts.