Responding to posts.

[Chas]

And what is the problem with two posts one after another? It offends your esthetics?

You still haven't explained why two posts is better than one. Other than the reason that one post offends your aesthetics...

Which I think is frankly ludicrous and hilariously hypocritical of you to make this argument.

I gave reasons that are not esthetic - you are just too stupid to understand them.

They are separate responses to separate posts.

You can keep saying this, but it isn't a reason for having two posts one after the other. When you could just have one damn post.

And you have no reason for there to be one.

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This is going long.

Let me clarify things:
1. Multiposts in quick succession are folded together.
2. Staff accounts, by group membership, have that functionality disabled

The rationale for imposing multipost folding is not clear - it was made a while ago and predates myself.

There are arguments for it - folding N posts to
1 post certainly reduces database wastage, for example.

As has been pointed out, it breaks read new posts.

That isn't easy to fix - each user carries a list of the tail ids of each topic they read and the logic expects to see a difference to indicate new posts. The design of the software is inflexible, with high cost for modification and low barrier to mistakes.

As there is no pressing need to disable folding except for minor aesthetics and a penalty towards database usage if disabled, I fail to see the benefit in change for the sake of change.

Please do not think I am disregarding your input without due consideration.

This is very easy to fix - turn the option off. If you are correct that the posts have been combined in the database, there will be no problem.

I think you are not giving it due consideration because you clearly don't understand my comment.

I explained that it is clearer if they are separate. You may or may not agree, but I think folding them together is purely someone's esthetic decision as it serves no function.