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Top Posting, And Posting: Sort Of Like Waxing
I just learned that I am a "Top Poster". Most of us here are. It's
considered bad net-etiquette to post on top of what the last or another poster wrote. Did you know that? I didn't, and despite what I've read about top posting it makes sense to top post. It's easier to follow from poster to poster when top posting is used. Perhaps within a single post top posting can be troublesome as the reader has to scroll down. I'm mostly interested in what the last person said, not the prior person. At work I've argued for, and implemented putting the most recent record on top of earlier records. I've just reviewed some posts here. Some posters don't even include the post they are responding to. Who cares? It still works. I find that most of the Euro-posters avoid top posting but instead snip the irrelevant parts of the post they are responding to and then insert their thoughts after a quoted section of an earlier poster. This is considered "proper". I do that only when I am "conversing" or responding line by line. Could it be that we are a small group and developed a short hand way to communicate? Like among good friends or in a marriage some of the formality is discarded as unnecessary and inefficient. It's ok because of the "closeness" with the person. Or maybe not. Maybe I've just been a clod. But then so are you probably. Maybe we're like "jazz posters". Feel free to post on top of this, and don't feel the need to snip and quote, but please help me understand why I was told not to top post in RBT. Maybe because it's a bicycle group and there hasn't been a fight in a day or so? (Actually I was told in a kind way off the NG) Do you remove a hard wax when you need to put a softer wax over it? No- only if it the wax will be too thick, or if there is some other good reason to remove it. Do you put a hard wax over a soft wax? Not normally, and only if there is a specific reason to. Are we losing contributors because of our bad manners? Gary Jacobson Rosendale, NY |
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