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Double posts

emw said:
There are so many ways to increase post count that don't involve stringing together responses. One of which is to post excessively in threads complaining about multiple posts. :p
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What are you implying? :p :D

(And a 4-word reply nonetheless!)
 
~Shard~ said:
What are you implying? :p :D
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That, my friend, is a very good question ;)
 

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I don't see much reason to double post - I've done it a few times but always out of haste and it makes a thread longer for no good reason.

That said, I triple posted the other day due to network latency - hopefully people won't jump all over me next time something happens like that.:eek:

I often put multiple quotes I want to respond to in the same post. They aren't necessarily related but it's a cleaner look when reading.

Even if it takes extra work to put miltiple quotes in a post, I'd rather have less (but easier to read) posts than have MR end up looking like the Slashdot forums or something.
 
~Shard~ said:
Don't be so hard on yourself, you're only up to 3 posts... ;)
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Hilarious. :D Thanks for making my day, since I was thinking the very same thing before I read your post. Almost spilled the water in my mouth when I read your post then... :)
 
MontyZ said:
Okay. Thanks for clarifying that. I didn't realize MR is a repository of quality, valid posts, I assumed it was a discussion forum for an online Mac community. I'll try to keep my posts to a minimum and encourage others to do the same.
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There's no need for sarcasm here.

Yes it's a discussion forum for Mac users, but no we don't want a to have to sift through useless junk to find interesting discussion.

Posting a legitimate opinion on something, whether or not it has been said before, is worthwhile, whereas posting:

Jon Doe said:
ZOMGZZ LOLZ!!!111
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and immediately following:
Jon Doe said:
Hahahahahahah. u r funne,
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is not worthwhile. That said, you can post as much as you want, if you have something to contribute, but the point is not to post a lot, and not to "drive up page views," but to provide an easily accessible forum for discussion.
 
Diatribe said:
Hilarious. :D Thanks for making my day, since I was thinking the very same thing before I read your post. Almost spilled the water in my mouth when I read your post then... :)
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Anytime my friend, anytime. ;) :cool:

Yeah, I don't think I want to know how many threads there are like that where I have the most posts. What can I say, I really enjoy spending time on MacRumors! :)
 
OutThere said:
Posting a legitimate opinion on something, whether or not it has been said before, is worthwhile, whereas posting:

(one liner)

is not worthwhile. That said, you can post as much as you want, if you have something to contribute, but the point is not to post a lot, and not to "drive up page views," but to provide an easily accessible forum for discussion.
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I'll go further than that and say that one-liner posts aren't necessarily a problem unless they proliferate, especially when it's always the same couple posters. Maybe you just want to interject an "LOL, very funny!" now and then, and that's OK I think - but all in moderation. I don't want to have to scroll through dozens of such comments in order to follow a real discussion.
 
~Shard~ said:
Don't be so hard on yourself, you're only up to 3 posts... ;)
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LOL. Ooops, now it's up to 5 :eek:

Lord Blackadder said:
I'll go further than that and say that one-liner posts aren't necessarily a problem unless they proliferate, especially when it's always the same couple posters.
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To be fair, many one-liners can be quite poignant, it's more the one or two worders that generally get distracting to me.
 
max_altitude said:
Guilty of this once or twice, but only because I didn't know how to use multiple quotes. Thanks for explaining mad jew! ;)
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Yes, thank you for that. I will definitely be using that from now on. (Guilty of double posting for multiple quotes before.)
 
jdechko said:
Yes, thank you for that. I will definitely be using that from now on. (Guilty of double posting for multiple quotes before.)
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I'm glad you'll be using that from now on, but did you need to resurrect a month-old thread just to tell us that? :p :cool:
 
~Shard~ said:
I'm glad you'll be using that from now on, but did you need to resurrect a month-old thread just to tell us that? :p :cool:
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Now that I know, I can keep track of the user. :p :eek: j/k
 
Yea, I'm guilty of this. I guess in part it is not realising how to combine quotes from multiple people with ease (yea, I know how to now), part laziness and part not realising it is bad etiquette. I'll endeavour to do better in future. :D

Edit: Oh, and thanks to 840quadra for bumping this thread!
 
How do you report a double post? For the most part I would only do so for true "double posts" (an accident that results in two or more posts that are exactly the same)
 
You can report a double post the same way you report a regular bad post, use
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(which is beside each post except your own) to bring up a dialogue box that'll give you a chance to explain to a moderator why the post should be modified or deleted. :)
 
Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising messages, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts.

Not sure double posting falls under the guidelines that it needs to be reported. As a mod, I wouldn't want to have to deal with so many of these reports. Double posting is annoying, but sometimes a necessary evil. Didn't someone mentioned it screws up hybrid view.

Here's to the Crazy Ones ​
 
Lacero said:
Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising messages, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts.

Not sure double posting falls under the guidelines that it needs to be reported.
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Many double posts would be considered SPAM. Nevertheless, this thread clearly states that there is a time and a place for double posts.


Lacero said:
As a mod, I wouldn't want to have to deal with so many of these reports. Double posting is annoying, but sometimes a necessary evil.
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Well, the moderators seem to think reporting bad posts help them. I agree in that I imagine it'd generally get annoying to be distracted but maybe it doesn't happen all that often.


Lacero said:
Didn't someone mentioned it screws up hybrid view.
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I assume you mean that double posting gets around the problems some member(s) have in hybrid view (or whatever it's called) when members such as myself post more than one reply in a single post. :)
 
mad jew said:
You can report a double post the same way you report a regular bad post, use
report.gif
(which is beside each post except your own) to bring up a dialogue box that'll give you a chance to explain to a moderator why the post should be modified or deleted. :)
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OK, that's what I thought, Thank you. :)
 
840quadra said:
For your Viewing Pleasure :)

http://guides.macrumors.com/Reply_with_multiple_quotes

Moderators and others, feel free to reference that guide when needed. Seems to be lots of threads and users who post 2 to 4 in a row now :eek: .

I am a past offender, and have done my time, and hopefully redeemed myself by creating this guide :) .
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Nice guide 840uadra, thanks for putting this one together! Hopefully this will help deter people form making unnecessary double posts and cluttering up the Forums. :cool:
 
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