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Feldschlacht IV
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CloseCurrently, double posting in a topic is against the rules; I honestly think this is an antiquated system that is heavy handed and ignores context in its application. The intention of this rule is to prohibit spamming, but it doesn't recognize the possibility that a user is posting twice in a topic to provide a legitimate update to his/her thought without having to wait for someone else to post in between. Double posting to update the readers of a change is sometimes necessary because there is currently no way that editing a post lets users know the topic has new information.
Just something I wanted to throw out there.
Just something I wanted to throw out there.
TheNecromancer
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Typically it's only if they double post in quick succesion. If they post like once every day or two, it's not a big deal.
But if it's only been a few minutes/hours, and nobody else has posted, it's usually reasonable to assume that most people have not read that last post yet. So editing that last post with the new info won't affect a whole lot of people. The majority of people stumbling onto that topic will see the edit.
That's how I see it, but I can understand your point of view. Ultimately I don't think anything posted on this site is so important as to require a change in the rules.
But if it's only been a few minutes/hours, and nobody else has posted, it's usually reasonable to assume that most people have not read that last post yet. So editing that last post with the new info won't affect a whole lot of people. The majority of people stumbling onto that topic will see the edit.
That's how I see it, but I can understand your point of view. Ultimately I don't think anything posted on this site is so important as to require a change in the rules.
I've been keeping the rule two-three days, leaning more towards three. In the case of updates, they could keep the information until the third day, having a longer update.
Frankly, if a topic doesn't get at least one other post within three days then it's obviously not really being watched. I mean, the last update didn't really garner any interest so waiting a few days isn't hurting anything much. Make an extra long update and you're sure to get more comments.
There are topics where this rule is ignored but they're few and far between and often have it set up in the rules of the topic that that will be the case (Mafia threads, for example).
Frankly, if a topic doesn't get at least one other post within three days then it's obviously not really being watched. I mean, the last update didn't really garner any interest so waiting a few days isn't hurting anything much. Make an extra long update and you're sure to get more comments.
There are topics where this rule is ignored but they're few and far between and often have it set up in the rules of the topic that that will be the case (Mafia threads, for example).
A change in the rules isn't really what I think would be the best solution, as its more like a patch. I think the best solution would be to add a functionality that treats the last post edited as a new entry in the topic.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
What if the last post edited wasn't the last post? Then it gets confusing for where the link should go when you click on the "view most recent post" link. And who it should list as the most recent person to have responded.
Don't edited posts have a time-stamp attributed to them? In which case, if a new post came after an edited post, the "newest post" would point to the new post.
I think.
I think.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
Right, the question is where it should point if the newest post was posted 6 hours ago, but someone edited a post on a previous page 5 minutes ago.
The Read
link not always going to the end of the thread would be a weird change.
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