NEWS: WE CAN HAZ LEGAL THREATS?
Inge:
On my forum, also SMF, editing a post does not make it appear as new. I support double posting, whether by senators or peasants, and I will continue to post my opinions unless or until I am banned from posting.
The rule has no practical basis, as the same amount of space is occupied by the text added to an existing post as the same text held in a new post. Editing a previous post also causes extra work for the database server, as data must be inserted and any newer data moved.
Double posting does not make the information harder to read like some other proscribed acts such as textspeak. In fact lolcatspeak, which is encouraged in this forum, *does* make the posts harder to read. I therefore consider the no-double-posting rule to be a rule without logical foundation. Just another tedious obstruction.
J. M. Pescado:
Catois is typically not employed in posts intended for serious reading.
Lord Darcy:
Quote from: Mootilda on 2008 December 22, 01:44:43
As far as I know, editing your post will make it re-appear as a new (unread) post, so there's no need to double post at this site.
Although the "new" icon does appear when you edit your post, edited post will not appear as a new post when you click "Show new replies to your posts" or "Show unread posts since last visit". People may not know that your post was modified until another person responds.
You can make a new post and delete your previous post to avoid double-posting, but I believe that this trick should be reserved for when it's important to notify people of something, like fixed download links or Peasantry updates. This is clearly not the case here.
Inge:
All the same, no-double-posting is merely a shibboleth to seperate newbies from old-timers, and has no practical basis, other than to discourage the occasional impatient person who posts a question and five minutes later adds a "Hello?" and again posts "is NE1 gonna anser me?". But those individuals are hardly likely to be discouraged by a mere rule, anyway.
Kyna:
Double posting in a discussion thread strikes me as attention-seeking.
"Look at me, my last post was just so awesome it took your breath away. This is the only possible reason that nobody replied. I know this because I are a speshul snowflayke. Now here's another post of awesomeness from me, and I know you're all waiting with bated breath!"
Um ... no. If nobody replies, maybe it's because nobody is interested in the discussion.
Threads at MATY can derail fairly quickly, so I think it's a safe bet to say that most of the threads in the Podium and RL end up as discussion threads.
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