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Zoobot
Joined: 25 Aug 2006
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
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 Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:49 am Post subject: Message Board Thread Protocol |
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Do you prefer all the responses to a thread to respond to the original post, or do you prefer the conversation to develop organically in response to each previous response? Or are both dandy?
I hope the inclusion of the loaded (dance, f*cker, dance!) word "organically" doesn't bias anyone... |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:24 am Post subject: Re: Message Board Thread Protocol |
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| Zoobot wrote: |
Do you prefer all the responses to a thread to respond to the original post, or do you prefer the conversation to develop organically in response to each previous response? Or are both dandy?
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I prefer Usenet, where you could break a diverging thought off into its own threads. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:06 am Post subject: |
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An original poster has no right to control the direction of a discussion.
Just as conversations in real life take tangents, so do threads.
That's a natural phenomenon of life. |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Keep the topic on the OP. If what you have to say is so important, it deserves its own title. |
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Zoobot
Joined: 25 Aug 2006
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:03 am Post subject: |
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| It depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a pissed-at-the-world, I-want-to-make-random-strangers-feel-dire-emotional-pain kind of mood, then I'll say that only idiots stray from the OP if I read something that diverges from the OP and annoys me. But most of the time, I prefer the conversational mode. What comes up, comes up! |
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mnhnhyouh
Joined: 21 Nov 2006
Location: The Middle Kingdom
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| Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:13 am Post subject: |
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If the OP has legs, it will run over any divergences. Otherwise it will not.
Simple really.
h |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
That's a natural phenomenon of life. |
Excuse me. This thread is not about life's natural phenomena, back on topic please. |
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