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[Winkk]

When there is a long thread where people respond to each other, how do you know when someone is responding to what you posted? Since I read more then post, I was wondering once you post something and then move on to other topics how do you know when someone has responded to your first post?

There have been conversations where there was a constant volley of responses to each other so I was just curious. Thanks.

[LizAnne_1]

Sometimes it's tougher than reading Sanskrit, eh?

[Winkk]

Oops, typo in the heading. Sorry about that.

[Clover29]

You can go back to your posts via the "My Activity" link (top right, near your name).

[scotttie]

I try to quote always. But that gets me in trouble too. Some people think you are ""calling them out"" if you quote them.

[LilacTree]

I can't follow a lot of long threads with all the cross-conversations. I just abandon them when that happens.

[Winkk]

This is good to know. I thought maybe there was a way of keeping track of conversations that I wasn't aware of because some of them can get pretty long.

[Cakers1]

I try to delete as many quotes as I can as long as it doesn't make my reponse look out of place. I try to leave only the quote I'm responding to. Sometimes, though, if you remove too many it changes the sense of what you are saying.

Once the posts contain more than 3 or 4 posts, I usually don't bother at that point.

[hckynut]

On 7/23/2014 Wink said:

When there is a long thread where people respond to each other, how do you know when someone is responding to what you posted? Since I read more then post, I was wondering once you post something and then move on to other topics how do you know when someone has responded to your first post?

There have been conversations where there was a constant volley of responses to each other so I was just curious. Thanks.

When I see "quotes of quotes" I move on. If it is a topic to which I want to respond I read each post individually and respond to the "nic" that want to communicate with on the topic. I start my post with "their nic" and move on from there.

I've posted many times asking why people that want to respond to "one poster" do not delete all the other "quotes". Don't know that anyone has ever answered to me directly. My only conclusion is that they don't want to take time to delete other "quotes", thus making it confusing to those other than themselves.

If I am going to take time to respond to a certain person I am not going to have quotes from a half dozen others to which I am not addressing, so I take the time to delete all the quotes but the one to the person I am addressing.

[mysterylady]

How about the OPs that ask for information - you provide a well-thought response and they never return to the thread. After several of these instances I realized why I've been registered for some time but mainly read, not post.