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Forum Issues and Administration • Re: Changes to help cut down excessive quotations

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In some cases, readers of posts will now have to work more to understand the thread, by clicking or scrolling back to prior posts. This affects me, but I'll be optimistic and say that I'll learn new navigation and reading habits.
It's one thing to be a reader. Anyone can do that, especially the lurkers (which are often more than how many are currently logged in).

But to be a good responder, it will be much harder. Eventually a thread will look "done" if the latest posts were quoting and agreeing. But an essential (now possibly non-displayed) point can then be overlooked unless the responder reads every post in their thread.

Oftentimes I see an important point be brought up in the second page, but that will only be read by those who carefully read the entire thread. The OP themself may not even notice it. A common example is for those who discuss when to start Social Security. I appear to be the main person who prompts them to analyze if they need to start Roth conversions instead. (The point is not to tell tell them to convert but to have the OP at least consider if it is needed.)

Statistics: Posted by celia — Fri Oct 11, 2024 4:49 pm



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