topic Re: Does anyone agree about long threads in Community Chat

Does anyone agree about long threads

CherryHugs — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:28:51 GMT

I am soo not a fan of a thread with comments that keep getting added on to!

Hope you know what I mean, its hard to explain.

I never do that and cant stand to go thru all of it to see comments. I always start a new comment without all the added stuff.

Might just be me that is annoyed by it LOL.

Re: Does anyone agree?

Anonymous032819 — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:28:31 GMT

@CherryHugs

Do you mean threads that are 15+ pages long, or threads that is nothing more than a conversation between just two people???

Re: Does anyone agree?

CherryHugs — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:30:17 GMT

@Anonymous032819 I dont mind conversation between 2 ppl at all.

Just when one page of comments have all the previous comments on them and you have to scroll thru a ton to get to the comment that is next!

Re: Does anyone agree about long threads

proudlyfromNJ — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:33:55 GMT

I do that when I am answering a poster so posters know what I'm talking about, but I can see the problem and I won't do it anymore.

Re: Does anyone agree about long threads

CherryHugs — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:36:19 GMT

@proudlyfromNJ I am sorry if I offended anyone. It is nothing personal or just one person.

What happens though is that I will just skip a whole thread when this happens. I guess I dont have the patience at times to go thru all the previous stuff on the area with the new comment someone is making!

Re: Does anyone agree about long threads

SloopJohnB — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:36:40 GMT

@CherryHugs So, you mean a long post in a thread where several other posters are quoted? Yes, that can look confusing .

Re: Does anyone agree about long threads

Johnnyeager — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:37:07 GMT

I completely stop reading or following a thread when that starts. It's usually at the point when 2 posters are going at each other and there's nothing new to be gleaned by anyone else.

Re: Does anyone agree about long threads

CherryHugs — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:37:34 GMT

@SloopJohnB Yes that is it, I had a hard time explaining what I mean!!

Re: Does anyone agree about long threads

Sushismom — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:50:21 GMT

I think you mean long posts, not threads, where the poster quotes another (and another and another and another, etc).

Yes, that does bother me also. I don't necessarily skip them, but I do skip the often-qutoed replies.

P.S. I didn't see SloopJohn's reply before I typed mine. Sorry!

Re: Does anyone agree about long threads

proudlyfromNJ — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:38:58 GMT

You didn't offend me at all. I understand how annoying it can be.

Re: Does anyone agree about long threads

Kachina624 — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:40:07 GMT

I hate when an OP has a long string of photos then several people feel they must quote the OP so all the photos are repeated. WHY, WHY?

Re: Does anyone agree about long threads

SloopJohnB — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:40:48 GMT

@CherryHugs No, you did fine. 🍒🤗. That's a cherry hug, by the way. LOL

Re: Does anyone agree?

Junebug54 — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:42:22 GMT

@Anonymous032819 I agree with both. The two chatting should take their conversation elsewhere. It's a sad thread in my opinion.

Re: Does anyone agree?

occasionalrain — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:42:37 GMT

The mega long 15+ page threads become limited to certain groups of posters. Unless a poster has regularly kept up, getting to the most recent postings is next to impossible. To get there requires scrolling through pages of years old entries.

We get admonished for bring up old threads so it's a mystery why these remain.

The other issue involves off topic conversations between two posters who commandeer the thread for back and forth sudo-texting.

Re: Does anyone agree about long threads

teganslaw — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:45:16 GMT

I don't like when several quotes are included in a comment. It gets confusing as to who the quotes belong to and adds nothing. The original meaning is lost.

It isn't difficult to eliminate all extra quotes and only add the one to which the poster is replying. I wish more people would do that.

Re: Does anyone agree about long threads

Johnnyeager — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:47:24 GMT

Exactly! You can respond to the most recent poster and delete the 35 previous comments. Makes for much more pleasant and easier reading. Which should be the goal.

Re: Does anyone agree about long threads

Marp — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:51:47 GMT

The solution to multiple quotes within a post is as simple as taking the time to highlight and delete the unneeded quotes, just leaving the part to which you are responding.

Same goes with photos. When quoting a post with photos the photos can be deleted then just continue with the response.

Re: Does anyone agree about long threads

occasionalrain — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:52:23 GMT

@teganslaw wrote:
I don't like when several quotes are included in a comment. It gets confusing as to who the quotes belong to and adds nothing. The original meaning is lost.

It isn't difficult to eliminate all extra quotes and only add the one to which the poster is replying. I wish more people would do that.

It is confusing and often the wrong poster is taken to task for something they never wrote. Then there follows attempted sorting and denials.

Re: Does anyone agree about long threads

mspatmac — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:53:39 GMT

Great points to bring up @CherryHugs and I agree. It make reading very difficult.

Re: Does anyone agree about long threads

itsmagic — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:54:57 GMT

I too get confused when several posters are quoted in a single post and I’m trying to keep track of who said what. But I don’t mind long threads of posts (many pages). There are certain ongoing long threads I look at often so I start at the end and work my way back to where I remember I’ve already read (for example - I might have read it the day before).