"Over Posting"

[in_love_with_liszt]

This is really starting to get annoying. What I mean by "over posting" is that the question on the topic has been fully answered....but for some reason people continue to post. A recent post that comes to mind is Ricwyk asking whether to buy a digital or an accoustic piano. Everyone gave their opinion on what they thought was good and bad about both types, and then Ricwyk posted that he had decided to rent an accoustic, and that should have been the end of the post, as it had fulfilled it's potential. But the posts kept coming! People continued to tell him what they thought he should buy, even though he had already decided on the accoustic! I could bore you with a plethora of other examples, but hopefully the point is clear--this is just taking up needless space on the forum. Please be courteous when posting and if a post has already been answered to it's potential, then there's no point in posting; if your opinion is exactly the same as someone's that has already posted, then there's no point in posting unless you feel that this opinion needs special emphasis. Remember, be a courteous poster!

[janice]

Did you have a bad day?

[Egghead]

This is really starting to get annoying. What I mean by "over posting" is that the question on the topic has been fully answered....but for some reason people continue to post. A recent post that comes to mind is Ricwyk asking whether to buy a digital or an accoustic piano. Everyone gave their opinion on what they thought was good and bad about both types, and then Ricwyk posted that he had decided to rent an accoustic, and that should have been the end of the post, as it had fulfilled it's potential. But the posts kept coming! People continued to tell him what they thought he should buy, even though he had already decided on the accoustic! I could bore you with a plethora of other examples, but hopefully the point is clear--this is just taking up needless space on the forum. Please be courteous when posting and if a post has already been answered to it's potential, then there's no point in posting; if your opinion is exactly the same as someone's that has already posted, then there's no point in posting unless you feel that this opinion needs special emphasis. Remember, be a courteous poster!

I guess I should not say anything, as I agree with a lot of what you say - so the point is made already...

However a) I am probably guilty of doing what you describe myself,
b) it actually has SOME advantages
c) I don't think it is THAT bad.

I will needlessly expand on these points now:

about a) posts often stray from the topic, and then you end up posting discussing this topic even though the original question has already been answered, or is no longer "topical". Instead of starting a new thread, it often seems to make more sense to "keep it in the context", so you can assume all the information present within that thread as known to the reader.

b) more advantages: I read the thread you mentioned. I do not actually care that much whether Ricwyk gets an acoustic or digital piano in the end. It is highly useful though, to have a wide spread of opinions and ideas on the topic of digital versus acoustic (and indeed qualities of various digital pianos) just in one thread.
I much rather read one v. long thread with many quotes/refernces than searching and ploughing through 20 mini-threads, where someone says: I like digitals, end of message...

c) nobody forces you to read a particular thread again and again. So unless we have reached hardware limits - what is so terrible about it?

Egghead
p.s. I have a fast internet connection - is this relevant, perhaps?

[in_love_with_liszt]

Did you have a bad day?

No, I'm OCD.

[donjuan]

No, I'm OCD.

OH- that runs in my family.  I thought I had it for the longest time, having to snap my fingers everytime we passed by a car, or unlocking and locking the bathroom door to make sure it was working ..but anyway now we are getting off topic.

I hope you arent angry at me for my number of posts.  I want you all to know I dont post because I want to see big numbers under my name, I just have a lot of stuff to say to many things.
donjuan

[bernhard]

[allchopin]

[Egghead]

I hope you arent angry at me for my number of posts.  I want you all to know I dont post because I want to see big numbers under my name, I just have a lot of stuff to say to many things.
donjuan

Now that we have dealt with the topic of this thread, let us change topic and start with donjuan and number-posting...

donjuan, I really like your posts! You do indeed have lots of stuff to say and it is often very refreshing. Not my first candidate for the number-post-award.
Keep it up.

Egghead
p.s. If I start showing signs of overposting disease, please PM/IM me: there is the "MODIFY" button afterall...

Best use I have seen of that was someone disappearing his own question AFTER it had been answered by Bernhard. So we have a thread with 0 replies but different names under "thread-starter" and "last post by". and you can try to work out the question from the answer.
p.p.s. Why do I have the nagging guilt feeling of writing boring overposting rubbish here? Someone going to pm me about this ?    

[Egghead]

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does this qualify?

[ahmedito]

https://www.cinemaskoop.com/~cskoop5/dutchjack4.jpg

[Spatula]

TOTALLY reminds me of what Nigel Powers said in Austin Powers 3.



hehe now does THAT count for a useless post?

haha I'm glad I wasn't mentioned on that first post by in_love_with_liszt

whew (although I'm notorious for useless posts, see Nils)

[comme_le_vent]

i like looseness

i feel this forum should be a society - as opposed to an information centre

i like the human and friendly nature of off-topicness

[Spatula]

It's interesting because Nils said to me that this isn't a social chit chat board and then deleted some of my posts. 

That was around 4 months ago when I first started here.

[comme_le_vent]

i dont like him much for anything other than creating this board

[janice]

You should be nice to him,  comme, because he let you back in here!  Nils, if you let him back in, make him be nice!

[tosca1]

On this website you used to be able to access  a list of  the top 10 or 20 posters.  I believe that encouraged  competition merely to become the top poster. Now it seems that we can no longer access the list and  find who the top posters are.  It is a good thing too. Posters should now focus on quality not quantity.

Kind regards,
Robert.