A suggestion about posts

[Zenith]

I have noticed that if you give a reply, and then after a few minutes you post again on the same thread, your two replies get united. The problem is that it looks very ugly and hard to read if the posts are big. Many times it is much better if you separate two different topics in two posts (also when you reply to different people) - IF those posts do not get united into a single one. On the other hand, if you only want to append something to your old post, you can simply click "Edit" and edit it.

What do you say about allowing the posts of the same user to be separated, even if he replies after 5 minutes or less?

[Violet]

The alternative is to see 6 posts from me in a row. That isn't so pretty either

But I hate the forum design right now, so I don't see how it can be made to be pretty without a redesign

[Napoléon]

I think it's a reasonable idea, it would just be difficult to make sure that if poster's have something to add to a previous post they edit rather than posting one after the other.
And I really don't want this forum to be taken over any more by Sae than it already is!

[Zenith]

I think it's a reasonable idea, it would just be difficult to make sure that if poster's have something to add to a previous post they edit rather than posting one after the other.
And I really don't want this forum to be taken over any more by Sae than it already is!

yeah, perhaps there should be a button "post as separate" or something... it could solve both issues.

[Rayaan]

I like this idea, too.

But, I think we should try limit ourselves to not post more than 3 times in a row, unless if it's really important.

Not for something useless ...

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like this

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or like this

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or likes this.

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because then it's kind of disturbing if you post too many times in a row.

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:S

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^ So we should think of editing sometimes.

[Violet]

Me have self control? Good luck

I do edit sometimes... usually only to add a hide tag or fix a word or remove a sentence where I crossed the line or fix a code like /quote] and [/hied]

The 'important stuff' (something that alters the post or adds to it greatly) is the stuff you shouldn't edit in.

[Tiberius]

Currently posts made within 60 minutes of each other are merged into one. I don't really want to alter this value, since there really is no reason to post multiple times unless you are trying to 'bump' the thread up.

As for it looking bad, I can change the default way in which the posts are merged. Currently we just use a single horizontal rule, but I can use pretty much any HTML code.

Suggestions?

[Zenith]

As for it looking bad, I can change the default way in which the posts are merged. Currently we just use a single horizontal rule, but I can use pretty much any HTML code.

Suggestions?

perhaps padding. Or to place a border filled with a color (though I don't know if it would look good), between the posts.

By the way, just curios Adrian... what are the PHP tags for? Do people really need to display php code? (I first thought that you can enhance the post with dynamic code, but it seems that it's not so).

[Tiberius]

Some forums probably use them a lot for displaying code, but we don't really have a need for it. There isn't really much point in removing it.

[tackattack]

perhaps we could have a more graphic horizontal rule (hr) so instead of

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we have
something like this

with maybe a "I like to double post" text in the graphic?