Fools Rush In

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., john at w... wrote:
(Actually I think it was Ebony...)  
> > Also, John, the one-post-a-day restriction isn't prohibitive at
> > all... if you want to answer multiple threads, you answer them 
all in
> > one post OR you respond to the thread that you can contribute the
> > most to.      
   
It would definitely be an improvement for folks to carefully consider 
which discussion they can truly contribute to in a substantive 
manner, rather than putting their random stream-of-consciousness out 
there without checking to see what others are saying on the same 
topic.  I don't post a lot for that very reason; many times the very 
thing I was thinking of writing has already been said.

When I do respond, lately I've also been doing a single post that 
combines various threads, if there's more than one that compels me to 
write something.  However, to play devil's advocate, I've noticed (on 
another list, actually) that there can be something slightly annoying 
about that.  I was trying to follow a particular thread on this other 
list, and combined posts meant I had to keep paging down through the 
person's responses to other threads I wasn't following to find the 
response to the thread I WAS following.  So while this can be a 
solution to fewer posts, it could make it more difficult for people 
to read posts selectively.  I suppose there are pros and cons to 
everything...

--Barb