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General Site Reminder: Please use the Edit Button instead of making multiple posts in a row. Yes, even if you're quoting someone. Thank you!
Liberty- 06/03/2016 03:15 AM
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CloseA refresh on the basics:
- If inside Welp it's okay to multi-post but don't overdo it. (Obviously, forum games being inside the Welp forum, this is okay.)
- If you have a topic (Writing/Art/other content) that has an update and no-one has posted since the last one, then it's fine as long as it's been a while since the last post. At least a few days or so - don't just update the same day.
- Otherwise, use the edit button below your initial post to add more to it instead of posting another post.
- If you have a topic that requires separate posts in a row (for example, an LP topic where the first post has current LPs and the second has past ones) then that's fine.
Just been noticing a few people who have been forgetting. >.<)b
- If inside Welp it's okay to multi-post but don't overdo it. (Obviously, forum games being inside the Welp forum, this is okay.)
- If you have a topic (Writing/Art/other content) that has an update and no-one has posted since the last one, then it's fine as long as it's been a while since the last post. At least a few days or so - don't just update the same day.
- Otherwise, use the edit button below your initial post to add more to it instead of posting another post.
- If you have a topic that requires separate posts in a row (for example, an LP topic where the first post has current LPs and the second has past ones) then that's fine.
Just been noticing a few people who have been forgetting. >.<)b
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
I still don't really understand why this is a rule. If people are obviously just bumping a topic then I get it, but it doesn't seem worth enforcing under any other circumstance. It's just someone's pet peeve that somehow got turned into a rule ten years ago due to power abuse, and then stayed as one because of inertia.
Because it means fewer actual posts on a single page, and since most of those instances are super short, it just reduces the overall overview you get. I prefer editing a lot because of that.
(that, and avatars etc take up more space, so more scroll too)
(that, and avatars etc take up more space, so more scroll too)
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
Yeah, and it's fine that that's your personal preference Kylaila, but it doesn't need to be a rule any more than using correct punctuation needs to be a rule.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
Admittedly, I haven't seen too many people banned over it. But I've also never seen this rule at any other forum.
Sometimes you just wanna separate your post in half as a form of punctuation. Sometimes you wanna do it for emphasis. Sometimes they're two different topics. Sometimes the site lags as you're passing from one cell tower to another and you accidentally octuple-post. Sometimes it's been 16 hours since your earlier post and you want people to see that there's a new post in the topic. Sometimes you're responding to yourself, and your insane self-conversation would make less sense if you didn't use a separate message. Sometimes you don't know that there's another post underneath yours because you have bulmabriefs144 on ignore. There are lots of legit reasons!
Sometimes you just wanna separate your post in half as a form of punctuation. Sometimes you wanna do it for emphasis. Sometimes they're two different topics. Sometimes the site lags as you're passing from one cell tower to another and you accidentally octuple-post. Sometimes it's been 16 hours since your earlier post and you want people to see that there's a new post in the topic. Sometimes you're responding to yourself, and your insane self-conversation would make less sense if you didn't use a separate message. Sometimes you don't know that there's another post underneath yours because you have bulmabriefs144 on ignore. There are lots of legit reasons!
The most we do is just talk to people about it privately. At worst, give a warn. It's not something we ban over.
Thing is, there's various reasons for it being in existence.
One is to avoid general spamming up of threads. We've seen it in Welp a lot where people will post 3+ times in a row and it's just a mess. It's a lot easier to note each comment as being from different people.
The other reason is to promote more interaction between people instead of having someone just hog the topic with reply after reply after reply. It's very messy when someone wants to reply to 5 different posts and quotes one person per post. Soon enough a topic bloats to hell and back (as any who have every played mafia can tell you) and what would have been a 3 page topic becomes triple that, if not more, all of it jumbled with replies all over the place.
It also helps those who have subscribed to threads so that they don't get a shit ton of notifications by the same person posting tons of time in the thread. Again, mafia shows just how unruly that can get after a while.
It also helps keep the community areas like Latest Posts be a bit more organised and allow different topic posts to show up instead of just one topic being posted in by the same person over and over.
It keeps the place tidy and organised and easy to find one person's posts in a thread. Instead of searching 5 posts in a row, you can jump in on the one post they made instead.
In general it's for ease of reading, ready-use and keeping the site tidy for everyone.
Thing is, there's various reasons for it being in existence.
One is to avoid general spamming up of threads. We've seen it in Welp a lot where people will post 3+ times in a row and it's just a mess. It's a lot easier to note each comment as being from different people.
The other reason is to promote more interaction between people instead of having someone just hog the topic with reply after reply after reply. It's very messy when someone wants to reply to 5 different posts and quotes one person per post. Soon enough a topic bloats to hell and back (as any who have every played mafia can tell you) and what would have been a 3 page topic becomes triple that, if not more, all of it jumbled with replies all over the place.
It also helps those who have subscribed to threads so that they don't get a shit ton of notifications by the same person posting tons of time in the thread. Again, mafia shows just how unruly that can get after a while.
It also helps keep the community areas like Latest Posts be a bit more organised and allow different topic posts to show up instead of just one topic being posted in by the same person over and over.
It keeps the place tidy and organised and easy to find one person's posts in a thread. Instead of searching 5 posts in a row, you can jump in on the one post they made instead.
In general it's for ease of reading, ready-use and keeping the site tidy for everyone.
author=LockeZ
Yeah, and it's fine that that's your personal preference Kylaila, but it doesn't need to be a rule any more than using correct punctuation needs to be a rule.
I can't speak for anyone else, because I am only me.
That does not invalidate the points raised (and pointed out and elaborated by Liberty) in the slightest.
Scroll is a big problem in keeping a busy forum tidy. Every place I have been to has made sure to promote the edit feature over multi-posts, and while it was always a relaxed "rule", it still was there.
Doesn't mean there are no instances where it's more useful or okay to do a second post, and in those instances noone raises an eyebrow. Like the art-bumps in commissions sections where the op repeatedly it whenever they were available (and commissions being done via private messages, no other people commenting)
People double posting 1 minute right after their old post with nothing inbetween because they want to quote someone? Not kool.
But yeah, there we go.
The site I frequented before this had a "no double-post" rule, and allowed users to edit posts in... most places? I vaguely remember the odd thread where it was disallowed, but only because it was an older thread that dated back to before edit functionality was implemented. Or some-such reasoning.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
author=Liberty
It also helps those who have subscribed to threads so that they don't get a shit ton of notifications by the same person posting tons of time in the thread.
author=LibertyBoth of these arguments only make sense if you're assuming that the reader doesn't check the site until after the second post is made. If they check the site once, see the first post, and then come back after the second post is made, they will miss it if the second post is only an edit. I think almost anyone who's actually interested in a topic enough to subscribe to it would rather have spam than miss posts.
It also helps keep the community areas like Latest Posts be a bit more organised and allow different topic posts to show up instead of just one topic being posted in by the same person over and over.
And if you're only checking in once a day, then who cares whether you have six or twenty notifications in a topic anyway? Clicking the topic once and then marking all your notices as unread takes the same amount of time either way.
I honestly think if you're going to keep this rule, then edits should show up in the Latest Posts and Notifications if they were made more than three or four minutes after the original post.
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