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If you only counted quality posts I’d not make the top 10,000,000. But we all chose where to spend our online time.
Having never joined Twitter or FB I probably spend more time here than many.
I've never joined FB either, although I am on Twitter.

Moreover, this was the very first online space that I ever joined, and, for a very long time (Twitter excluded) it was the only online space I frequented.

That, too, as @Apple fanboy rightly remarks, may determine - or have an effect on - one's posting habits.

And yes, agreed, we all do choose where to spend our time online.
 
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All... my remark regarding post count was not a dig or had anything negative behind it. I was simply commenting on how many posts some people have here that is all. I hope I didn't offend anyone...
 
I've never joined FB either, although I am on Twitter.

Moreover, this was the very first online space that I ever joined, and, for a very long time (Twitter excluded) it was the only online space I frequented.

That, too, as @Apple fanboy rightly remarks, may determine - or have an effect on - one's posting habits.

And yes, agreed, we all do choose where to spend our time online.
I am starting a new job and well, as expected my post rate per week will take a hit.

I even calculated what it’ll take to keep my “post rate per 6 months”. It’ll be a tough 21 posts/day.
 
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In the early days of the internet, with the first email systems, bulletin boards and then Usenet, "Netiquette" was a big deal and one reason was because at that time bandwidth was at a premium, still fairly rare, and truly a big deal, most people were using dial-up to access their email and the internet, and having personal computers in one's home was something that was still in its infancy.

"Netiquette" focused on not wasting other people's (limited) online resources, not wasting their time, and indeed, "quality" vs "quantity" of posts on Usenet, as one example, was important. Responding to a post in an alt.rec.photo group? Fine -- just don't quote the other person's post in its entirety and only select out and include the specific portion of it to which you are replying and/or adding your own thoughts. One-line posts were seriously frowned upon. "I agree" posts which didn't include anything else were also even more frowned upon. (There weren't any convenient "like" icons to click on back then.) The idea behind "Netiquette" and all of its various rules was to keep discussions moving along, relevant and not allowing them to be clogged up by one-liners or irrelevant comments. Obviously this was easier said than done in many situations, but transgressors were quickly chided by fellow participants in many groups.

In the early days of web-based discussion forums attached to someone's website, again for a long time "Netiquette" ruled, and people were reminded to stick to a topic, not to go off-topic, don't write one-line responses in a thread, don't quote someone else's thread in its entirety if the need was to only comment on a small section of it, etc., etc. Also, since website owners were paying for the hosting services and such, people who joined for the purpose of spamming a site were a huge problem which had to be zapped out, and people who were deliberately running up their post count in order to achieve some particular privilege were also closely watched. Quality rather than quantity was a watchword for most web-based discussion forums for a very long time.

From the looks of it, "Netiquette" and posting standards in general seem to have eased up significantly over the past several years, if not pretty much disappeared altogether, which is why these days we do see one-line posts, even one-word posts or simply a "smilie" in place of words being the only response to a thread discussion.

Those of us who were around the online world back in the late 1980s and early 1990s still have the tendency to remember those "Netiquette" rules and to try to avoid making repetitious posts which have no intrinsic value or one-liners or gawd forbid, simply using a smilie as an attempt to express something in a thread. Quality rather than quantity..... And then again some of us are just loquacious, so our posts in threads may occasionally veer into the quantity but we still strive for that all-important quality.....
 
In the early days of the internet, with the first email systems, bulletin boards and then Usenet, "Netiquette" was a big deal and one reason was because at that time bandwidth was at a premium, still fairly rare, and truly a big deal, most people were using dial-up to access their email and the internet, and having personal computers in one's home was something that was still in its infancy.

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Those of us who were around the online world back in the late 1980s and early 1990s still have the tendency to remember those "Netiquette" rules and to try to avoid making repetitious posts which have no intrinsic value or one-liners or gawd forbid, simply using a smilie as an attempt to express something in a thread. Quality rather than quantity..... And then again some of us are just loquacious, so our posts in threads may occasionally veer into the quantity but we still strive for that all-important quality.....
If memory serves, the same situation applied in the early days of phone texts, as well, when you were limited by what a text message could accommodate, a situation which encouraged terse, precision in messages, and the development of acronyms and emojis.

Likewise, Twitter.

Having said that, I'm still sufficiently old-school to prefer messages, tweets, posts and texts to come complete with sentences that are correctly constructed according to the rules of syntax, spelling and grammar.

Yes, language changes with time and use (and the form used also serves to change language), but I still thrill to a well-written and well-argued post.
 
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If memory serves, the same situation applied in the early days of phone texts, as well, when you were limited by what a text message could accommodate, a situation which encouraged terse, precision in messages, and the development of acronyms and emojis.

Likewise, Twitter.

Having said that, I'm still sufficiently old-school to prefer messages, tweets, posts and texts to come complete with sentences that are correctly constructed according to the rules of syntax, spelling and grammar.

Yes, language changes with time and use (and the form used also serves to change language), but I still thrill to a well-written and well-argued post.
Me 2. I 8 it the way kids don’t txt proper like what I duz.
 
I believe texting came along shortly after the develop of the wide world web / internet, maybe mid-to-late 1980's, but didn't become popular until a few years later. Of course once the iPhone and other smartphones really became popular so did texting, as it was a lot easier to do then. In the early internet days is when we learned to do :) (I'll have to space it out to make it more apparent so it's not changed into an emoji). : - ) on the keyboard, indicating that we were smiling....
 
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Those of us who were around the online world back in the late 1980s and early 1990s still have the tendency to remember those "Netiquette" rules and to try to avoid making repetitious posts which have no intrinsic value or one-liners or gawd forbid, simply using a smilie as an attempt to express something in a thread. Quality rather than quantity..... And then again some of us are just loquacious, so our posts in threads may occasionally veer into the quantity but we still strive for that all-important quality.....
I was running a BBS from 1986 to 1992. In 1991 I think, one of the users entered SysOp chat and that was the first time I encountered stuff such as AFK, or BRB. I had to ask him to translate. Thought it was cool so started using it too.

Despite what some might think around here, I do try to condense my paragraphs. Sometimes a simple one word response will work. I wish I could do just that sometimes.

Unfortunately, it's in the rules…the mods do not allow one word responses and they enforce the rule. Especially if it's a short word and/or doesn't move the conversation forward. I've been moderated on that before.

So, if a one word response will do it, I hit the like button instead. Or assemble a sentence that isn't going to get me moderated.

Anyone out there still using one word responses on this forum…it's just a matter of time before the mods find you.
 
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