Responding to posts.

[Napoléon]

When I respond to different posts in the same thread (within some short but undefined timespan), the responses all get packaged as one.

I find it messy, distracting, and the individual answers lose their impact and can get lost in the noise.

What exactly do you mean? It's more messy if the same person has multiple posts one after the other. That's a stupid way for posting to work IMO. There is a timespan of an hour, after which any responses appear as new posts. That makes sense to me. If you are responding at once or in a relatively short period of time then absolutely it should all be in one post. That's much cleaner than multiple posts.

Also there is nothing from stopping you responding to multiple people at the same time...

But mod posts should adhere by that rule, too... people get to thinking it's unfair

The reason why mods are different is because often times in the staff area it's useful that threads are bumped so they're higher up on priority (at least that was the reason I was told when I joined the mod team, I never actually noticed it was different for mods until it became one).

*edit* also I imagine it's useful in the event that we get serial spammers. It stops them from making post after post in the same thread.