Feedback Multiple posts being edited into one - What's the purpose?

[CreedenceLeonoreGielgud]

On two or three occasions recently, a moderator has combined multiple of my posts into a single post, and then told me off afterwards.

I don't understand this policy. The posts I made were at separate times and were responding to different people on different topics. The combined posts don't have thematic unity nor do they flow logically nor do they read well. All the original ratings were lost, too.

Is this permanent KF policy?

 

[Jeanne d'Arc]

If they're all in the same time frame, they do it all the time.

Double/triple posting is annoying and no one likes "thread-bloat". Makes it harder to get to shit you care about.

 

[CreedenceLeonoreGielgud]

If they're all in the same time frame, they do it all the time.

Double/triple posting is annoying and no one likes "thread-bloat". Makes it harder to get to shit you care about.

What's the same time frame? A minute? An hour?

How does it reduce thread bloat? The total amount of content is the same.

How do you know what 'shit you care about' without reading it?

 

[break these cuffs]

What's the same time frame? A minute? An hour?

How does it reduce thread bloat? The total amount of content is the same.

How do you know what 'shit you care about' without reading it?

Replying to multiple users in a single reply instead posting multiple times in succession is longstanding internet decorum on basically every moderated community I've ever been a part of in order to reduce clutter. If you think of something later, the edit button exists for a reason.

 

[Eryngium]

Mod's are fags but I think their OCD in combining double posts does help a bit with thread spam even if their faggotry is annoying sometimes.

 

[Lez]

It bloats the thread and makes you have to do more scrolling than having it in a single post because with every post, the sidebar with your icon/username/tag line appears again along with the bit at the bottom where you report, like, quote and reply to posts. So rather than have all that appear once with your one post, it appears more times with multiple posts.

If you're going through a thread, there may seem like more discussion than there actually is which can be annoying.

It's just tidier to have multiple posts edited into one.

 

[Fascist Frederick]

I think you might take this stuff a bit too seriously. Lighten up. Who cares?

 

[IV 445]

Short answer, Null hates the way it looks and doesn’t want to see it.

Just condense your thoughts into one post. Not a wall of text, of course.

 

[CreedenceLeonoreGielgud]

I haven't 'thought of something later', in which case I would edit my original post. I've read a new post and responded to it.

I've been on plenty of moderated forums and I've never seen that behaviour from moderators, nor do I believe reading a reply to three different posts in one post is somehow less 'spammy' than three replies to a single post each.

Short answer, Null hates the way it looks and doesn’t want to see it.

Just condense your thoughts into one post. Not a wall of text, of course.

I'm not going to compromise the clarity of my posts for a rule I can't see the value in, so I'll probably go back to lurking.

 

[break these cuffs]

I'm not going to compromise the clarity of my posts for a rule I can't see the value in, so I'll probably go back to lurking.

HOly shit you think posting is serious business. You have autism.

 

[RG 448]

I haven't 'thought of something later', in which case I would edit my original post. I've read a new post and responded to it.

I've been on plenty of moderated forums and I've never seen that behaviour from moderators, nor do I believe reading a reply to three different posts in one post is somehow less 'spammy' than three replies to a single post each.

I'm not going to compromise the clarity of my posts for a rule I can't see the value in, so I'll probably go back to lurking.

Hey mods can we get a post merger here?

 

[The Crow]

it just makes things easier for the reader, no need to sperg out about it

 

[SpessCaptain]

We do it so threads don't get bloated by breaks or have exceptionally high number of pages and replies, which could artifically make them appear more "active". We have a lot of traffic on the farm and we prefer for users to merge replies into one post for clarity and simplification. We also do it so people don't farm reactions by breaking up posts (they're entirely useless btw). This isn't a chatroom, where breaking up sentences is necessary for clarity, this is a forum.

You don't write the next paragraph on a new piece of paper, do you?

You can doublepost whenever you find a thread with no current replies in it and have new information regarding it. This is fine.

 

[Wake me up]

If you think of something later, the edit button exists for a reason.

An edit does not raise a new notification like a new post does so I would say that the edit button should be used to edit your original post, not to add more content unless it's like literally a couple minutes later. Other than that, I completely agree with what you said: it's just basic Internet etiquette in any forum and doesn't hurt anybody either, even if the only reason for it was purely aesthetic (which it isn't).

That being said, it should be OK to double post (or triple post) when new information comes in or after a day has passed, more or less. If you're sitting there writing 10 posts one immediately after the other, there is no excuse either for you not to make it a single post instead.

A simple "sorry for double post but..." lets the mods know you're not some newfag shitting on the thread and I've never had problems with it (although on occasion a mod will merge the posts and that's fine too).

so I'll probably go back to lurking.

OK bye, see you tomorrow o/

 

[The Fool]

If a mod tells you not do double post that means you should do it more

 

[DisapprovingCorgi]

On two or three occasions recently, a moderator has combined multiple of my posts into a single post, and then told me off afterwards.

I don't understand this policy. The posts I made were at separate times and were responding to different people on different topics. The combined posts don't have thematic unity nor do they flow logically nor do they read well. All the original ratings were lost, too.

Is this permanent KF policy?

I've had my posts condensed into one and I didn't have a problem with it, nor did the mod(s) who condensed them, "tell me off". 98% of the mods here at KF are unbiased, polite and great people, although there are a couple in one of threads that I frequent that play favorite, are biased as hell and have a herd mentality (not as bad as Reddit) but they're the minority, not the majority, like in other forums across the net. Perhaps you said something rude to the mod(s) who condensed your post? Call me crazy, but somehow I can definitely see that happening.

That being said, with all due respect, I think you're sperging for no good reason and perhaps you should take a time out and have a graham cracker and a pint of milk?

 

[AJ 447]

why would you speak so rudely about @trombonista and her love of post merging

 

[ProgKing of the North]

I'm sad if this makes you stop posting, if you get this worked up over your posts being merged you have potential for a much more hilarious chimpout down the road

 

[CreedenceLeonoreGielgud]

Worked up? I asked, politely, what the policy was and the reasoning behind it. I can't get a clear answer on what kind of time window justifies a new post, and I think the policy makes threads unnecessarily difficult to follow and respond to.

 

[The Fool]

Worked up? I asked, politely, what the policy was and the reasoning behind it. I can't get a clear answer on what kind of time window justifies a new post, and I think the policy makes threads unnecessarily difficult to follow and respond to.

Holy fuck

Don't shit all over important threads with double posting when you can edit your post instead

How hard is this to understand, it's common courtesy, give us less to scroll through.

This is not Twitter.