Responding to posts.

[Chas]

I really dislike the way responding to posts works on this forum.

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.

I don't think so, actually I like the post auto merge function, but the reasons for me to have it disabled, compensates for the nuissance of that.

Perhaps you could provide better reasons than your personal taste about it? We are always open for that.

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

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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.

I don't agree. As I said, the individual replies are replies to individual posts. The replies lose context and impact.

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

What does that even mean? That's what I don't want to do.