Originally Posted by
wphamilton
Ah but I asked "layered", not "nested". It would include the total numberof quote boxes one sees when scanning down, in linear fashion, whether nested or otherwise.
Originally Posted by
noglider
Please, one person doing that is enough. I realize I'm supposed to read them linearly, but all those markings are distracting, usually leading me to skip his posts.
I've not heard the term "layered; i.e, the total number of quote boxes in a single post? Well, the above one has quite a few. I count 14.
On a recently closed thread this year was,
Originally Posted by Jim from Boston
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on a 2013 thread on Fifty-Plus, “How Do You Communicate on Forums vs Face-to-Face,” closed because of the hostile communication:
Originally Posted by Frankfast
+1 Forums for me are just like fast food. If I want something healthy, I'll read some good fiction
Originally Posted by Jim from Boston
…As a Famous Writer wrote, “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”
I only read the threads and posts that interest me. If I'm particularly interested in the content then I'm motivated to read no matter how long. It takes some time to write a properly composed long post, and I take my chances that my expenditure of time might connect with another interested reader.
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
...BTW by way of further explanation, I like to make my posts self-explanatory, as if someone reading from the last post in a thread forward could understand the context of my post, so I include quotes expressing the entire “conversation.”
I use ellipses,"..." to eliminate as much as possible, and still leave the context of the quote comprehensible; and I bold key words and phrases to emphasize the core content of the discussion…
While even if nobody reads my posts, I do try to communicate clearly to the reader. At least I try to evenly space, and keep my paragraphs short for easier readability, FWIW.
Last edited by Jim from Boston; 02-14-18 at 07:59 PM.
Reason: added BTW