Re: Re: Is there a moderator?

From: Richard Ness (richard.no_at_gamn.spam.nessnet.com)
Date: 03/12/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:40:11 -0800

AMEN!!!!

"JohnF" <u85721@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "David L. Wilson" <dwilson314@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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>> When we start reading up pages instead of down pages, we will believe
>> you.
>
> Just out of curiosity, do you read the old text in every post or do you
> simply scroll down to the bottom looking for the new text knowing that
> you've just read the old text in the previous post? Or do you just go to
> the end of a series of posts and only read the last post so that reading
> the old text in order is important?
>
> I've always thought this was a dumb argument and never really paid that
> much attention where people put their posts. Maybe I'm different than
> everyone else but I read the posts of a thread in order so that when I go
> from one post to the next I'm really just looking for the response to the
> previous post I just read. I don't need to re-read the last post so I'm
> really just looking for the new text. If it's at the top of the message
> then it makes it easy to just read the new text then I'm on to the next
> thread. If it's at the bottom, I don't re-read the old text, I scroll down
> to the bottom (or middle) and look for the new text. Having the old text
> before the new stuff did me absolutely no good. With the text at the top I
> can see the post in the preview pane and I can just arrow through the
> posts and never have to switch to the preview pane until I hit a bottom
> post and have to scroll to the bottom.
>
> I just don't buy this absurd notion that it has to be posted at the bottom
> because that's the way we read. If you re-read the old text every time
> then I guess I'd buy it, but since most people just skip past the old text
> it only makes sense that the new text should be as accessible as possible
> to more quickly get through a thread.
>
> Isn't it funny how bottom posting people are the only ones that ever raise
> a stink about this? Post however you want.
>

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