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Posted November 26, 2011
Do you find yourself asking general questions in threads that get over looked because your question was posted immediately after you replied to some one else and the forum Auto-Nazi slapped your separate question in with your last post making it look like part of your response to someone else and not a question directed towards everyone in the thread in general?

For example

Joe: Do you like applesauce?
Sally: Yes I like Applesauce.
Sally: Hey everybody what time is it?
Joe: I don't have a watch and why are you calling me everybody?

And anyone that may have actually had the time has pretty much skipped past this whole post because it just looked like conversation between Joe and Sally which no one else really cared to read.
Posted November 26, 2011
Whoever doesn't have the time on the internet must be accessing it through hitherto undiscovered means.

Or they're a spam bot that doesn't get to know the time so it can't clock in the hours it works.
Posted November 26, 2011
Never mind, complicated question.
Post edited November 26, 2011 by carnival73
Posted November 26, 2011
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carnival73: Never mind, complicated question.
I understand the question, but I think that it raises far bigger issues such as what is effectively spam bot slavery.
Posted November 26, 2011
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Navagon: I understand the question...
Not sure if I do. It's about how, when the last post in a thread is your own, and you post again within a certain time frame, that second post is treated like an Edit, right?

If it is, yeah that can mess you up a bit, but I've never seen it as a real problem. I mean, once you know how it works, you can deal with it, like making a genuine edit to your first post, and putting the question you're posing to the forum in general at the beginning, possibly with a reminder that it is, in fact, directed at everyone.
Posted November 26, 2011
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Jaime: Not sure if I do. It's about how, when the last post in a thread is your own, and you post again within a certain time frame, that second post is treated like an Edit, right?
Yeah, that's it. It's not as bad as it used to be. In fact, given how much forum traffic has picked up it's entirely avoidable - sometimes even when you'd have preferred a combined post.
Posted November 26, 2011
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carnival73: Never mind, complicated question.
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Navagon: I understand the question, but I think that it raises far bigger issues such as what is effectively spam bot slavery.
In other words if the subsequent posts where not added as 'edits' a bot could run through and make a hundred different spam posts where as this way the spam can all be deleted in shot?

Do spam bots still do this? I haven't seen flooding attempts since the late 90's.
Posted November 26, 2011
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carnival73: Do you find yourself asking general questions in threads that get over looked because your question was posted immediately after you replied to some one else and the forum Auto-Nazi slapped your separate question in with your last post making it look like part of your response to someone else and not a question directed towards everyone in the thread in general?

For example

Joe: Do you like applesauce?
Sally: Yes I like Applesauce.
Sally: Hey everybody what time is it?
Joe: I don't have a watch and why are you calling me everybody?

And anyone that may have actually had the time has pretty much skipped past this whole post because it just looked like conversation between Joe and Sally which no one else really cared to read.
Who doesm't care to read conversations?
Just because I've replied to you doen't mean I only expect you to read this as no-one else could be arsed...
Posted November 26, 2011
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Fever_Discordia: Who doesm't care to read conversations?
Just because I've replied to you doen't mean I only expect you to read this as no-one else could be arsed...
I do think he does have a point. In long threads, in which different subjects are discussed, I'm often only interested in some of them. So, I read only the posts which I think are part of the discussions that interest me, and skip or skim over the others.
Posted November 26, 2011
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carnival73: Do you find yourself asking general questions in threads that get over looked because your question was posted immediately after you replied to some one else and the forum Auto-Nazi slapped your separate question in with your last post making it look like part of your response to someone else and not a question directed towards everyone in the thread in general?

For example

Joe: Do you like applesauce?
Sally: Yes I like Applesauce.
Sally: Hey everybody what time is it?
Joe: I don't have a watch and why are you calling me everybody?

And anyone that may have actually had the time has pretty much skipped past this whole post because it just looked like conversation between Joe and Sally which no one else really cared to read.
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Fever_Discordia: Who doesm't care to read conversations?
Just because I've replied to you doen't mean I only expect you to read this as no-one else could be arsed...
Depends how many pages the thread has. When I come across threads that have like six pages and people are going into various tangent discussions I skim over them. Not that I'm bothered by tangents but after reading the OP it's just easier to breeze through to get the gyst of where the thread led to.

This particular thread there's only one page so far so nobodies eyeballs will fall out from trying to read entirely everything.
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Fever_Discordia: Who doesm't care to read conversations?
Just because I've replied to you doen't mean I only expect you to read this as no-one else could be arsed...
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Jaime: I do think he does have a point. In long threads, in which different subjects are discussed, I'm often only interested in some of them. So, I read only the posts which I think are part of the discussions that interest me, and skip or skim over the others.
Yup, pretty much. Thanks, you beat me to it. XD
Post edited November 26, 2011 by carnival73
Posted November 26, 2011
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Fever_Discordia: Who doesm't care to read conversations?
Just because I've replied to you doen't mean I only expect you to read this as no-one else could be arsed...
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carnival73: Depends how many pages the thread has. When I come across threads that have like six pages and people are going into various tangent discussions I skim over them. Not that I'm bothered by tangents but after reading the OP it's just easier to breeze through to get the gyst of where the thread led to.

This particular thread there's only one page so far so nobodies eyeballs will fall out from trying to read entirely everything.
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Jaime: I do think he does have a point. In long threads, in which different subjects are discussed, I'm often only interested in some of them. So, I read only the posts which I think are part of the discussions that interest me, and skip or skim over the others.
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carnival73: Yup, pretty much. Thanks, you beat me to it. XD
Well I guess, but if the thread's that popular you shouldn't have to wait too long for someone esle to post after your reply so you can make your seperate point
Although, it could be a bit of a pain, granted
Still think it's better than drowning in spam though
(OMG just imagined drowning in liquified pork by-product - yuk!)
Posted November 26, 2011
Lol but what if you HAVE to read everything like me, or others with my OCD? ;)

It's a headache I tells ya.
Posted November 26, 2011
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GameRager: Lol but what if you HAVE to read everything like me, or others with my OCD? ;)

It's a headache I tells ya.
I recently caught up on 3 woth years of 'guess this game' posts!
Kinda fun though - noticed that all the attachments had dissappeard for about 3 pages around the page 86 mark though
Posted November 26, 2011
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GameRager: Lol but what if you HAVE to read everything like me, or others with my OCD? ;)

It's a headache I tells ya.
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Fever_Discordia: I recently caught up on 3 woth years of 'guess this game' posts!
Kinda fun though - noticed that all the attachments had dissappeard for about 3 pages around the page 86 mark though
That's odd....but seriously....try being ME for a day on Gog or the entire net! I have to usually read all or MOST(70% and up) of a thread's posts before I can post, to make sure I get all the posts and replies in before making a reply. Damn this bloody noggin of mine. :(

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Posted November 26, 2011
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Fever_Discordia: I recently caught up on 3 woth years of 'guess this game' posts!
Kinda fun though - noticed that all the attachments had dissappeard for about 3 pages around the page 86 mark though
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GameRager: That's odd....but seriously....try being ME for a day on Gog or the entire net! I have to usually read all or MOST(70% and up) of a thread's posts before I can post, to make sure I get all the posts and replies in before making a reply. Damn this bloody noggin of mine. :(

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Do you ever find the time to actually PLAY your GOGs?
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