TopPosting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Brian Beattie]

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 22:27 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Paul wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Brian Beattie 
> > <beattie at beattie-home.net <mailto:beattie at beattie-home.net>> wrote:
> > 
> >     On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 09:21 -0400, John DeCarlo wrote:
> > 
> >      >
> >      > Ideally, with proper threading, you would not need to quote the
> >      > previous message at all, making this a moot point.
> > 
> >     That is just flat wrong.  If the post you are reading, is a response to
> >     a message that you have deleted and expunged 15 minutes ago, you have no
> >     context.  Or is proper threading keeping all messages until a thread is
> >     exhausted.
> > 
> >     --
> >     A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> >     Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing?
> > 
> > 
> > Well, if this thread served any purpose it was to arrange all the top 
> > posting idiots into one easy place so that they can be troll filtered 
> > quickly.
> > 
> 
> Of course you have to understand that your labeling of top posters as 
> "idiots" is counter productive.

Well if you are going to label them as trolls, is adding idiots much
worse?

> 
> 
> 
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing?

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