Plea to Drakon

[walter b]

Joe,

(05-14-2014 03:41 AM)Joe Horn Wrote:  

(05-10-2014 09:18 AM)walter b Wrote:  Please, disable <New Reply>. This button is an annoying source of repeating confusion.

Reasoning: Anybody who replies to a post replies to a particular one and shall clearly indicate to which - it shouldn't be left to the guesswork of the next reader(s) due to pure sloppyness of the respondent.

FWIW, I disagree, because there are (and ought to be) three kinds of postings:

New Thread -- for non-replies.
Quote -- for replies to individual postings.
New Reply -- for contributions to entire ongoing discussions (not merely replies to any one specific posting).

I agree on most parts of your post but disagree on what you call your third kind of posting. All the ongoing discussions on this forum are sorted in threads. So "if the overall topic of an ongoing discussion tickles my fancy, and prompts me to add my two cents' worth to that discussion" you are going to respond to that thread, i.e. to post #1. KISS.

Quote:Is the problem that some New Replies are unclear due to lack of context? If so, that's not New Reply's fault, but rather how it's used by thoughtless writers.

Maybe. So we can try to change people or to improve the forum environment. I'm not very optimistic about the first (see my OP), thus I vote for the latter.

d:-)