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<blockquote data-quote="AmerginLiath" data-source="post: 8355521" data-attributes="member: 777">Per what I was saying in #117 last page, I think a lot of the problems stem from posting as if conservations are threaded (coming from a Twitter or Reddit-style zeitgeist back to a bulletin board), when posts are shown linerally. That’s an issue that we can’t really change — and it would be really confusing to read were it to somehow change — so I think that’s something that needs to be kept in mind.Linking back to previous comments (or even just noting which post number something was) is a good reference point to return back from a digression. I do think we need to be better at splitting threads or starting up new threads (with links to the new conversation and quotes from the old thread as necessary) if the new topic needs a full debate.Part of me wonders if, when folks are involved in long debates or discussions over myriad pages, if they should remember to “recap” every so often — someone (whether the OP or another poster) making an aside on page ten of where the debate’s been going and what the main arguments are, for those joining already in progress.I’ll admit that I post a lot less often than I used to (never being remotely a heavy poster here, despite being here since close to the beginning) because every thread is so long and involved for me to catch up to when I poke my head in every few days, but I imagine part of that is how I still think in terms of early-2000s BB etiquette here in the 2020s.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AmerginLiath, post: 8355521, member: 777"] Per what I was saying in #117 last page, I think a lot of the problems stem from posting as if conservations are threaded (coming from a Twitter or Reddit-style zeitgeist back to a bulletin board), when posts are shown linerally. That’s an issue that we can’t really change — and it would be really confusing to read were it to somehow change — so I think that’s something that needs to be kept in mind. Linking back to previous comments (or even just noting which post number something was) is a good reference point to return back from a digression. I do think we need to be better at splitting threads or starting up new threads (with links to the new conversation and quotes from the old thread as necessary) if the new topic needs a full debate. Part of me wonders if, when folks are involved in long debates or discussions over myriad pages, if they should remember to “recap” every so often — someone (whether the OP or another poster) making an aside on page ten of where the debate’s been going and what the main arguments are, for those joining already in progress. I’ll admit that I post a lot less often than I used to (never being remotely a heavy poster here, despite being here since close to the beginning) because every thread is so long and involved for me to catch up to when I poke my head in every few days, but I imagine part of that is how I still think in terms of early-2000s BB etiquette here in the 2020s. [/QUOTE]

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