# Do you get annoyed when repliers crop your posts? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 3, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-annoyed-when-repliers-crop-your-posts/488194 "2009-03-03T21:42:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-annoyed-when-repliers-crop-your-posts/488194/41 "2009-03-04T15:45:07Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > What, all the old emails dissappear into a black hole or something? Joining an email discussion list isn’t like joining a forum. All of the old messages don’t automatically appear in your inbox. And I don’t tend to keep all old emails I get. Most are irrelevant. The vast majority, I’ll never look at again. > [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](#): > > If everyone had gmail, no one would have this problem. 🙂 Yay for threaded conversations. There is one email discussion group I participate in using a gmail account. I’m not sure why, but conversations are frequently broken into multiple threads by gmail, and they’re very difficult to follow. Messages from one thread are quoted in another, and chronological order is difficult to maintain. I’ll take a message board any day. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-annoyed-when-repliers-crop-your-posts/488194/42 "2009-03-04T16:25:43Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > Joining an email discussion list isn’t like joining a forum. All of the old messages don’t automatically appear in your inbox. And I don’t tend to keep all old emails I get. Most are irrelevant. The vast majority, I’ll never look at again. > > . So, apparently for you they DO dissappear down a black hole 🙂 I’ve never had that problem. And AOL is as fancy as I’ve gotten regarding email management. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-annoyed-when-repliers-crop-your-posts/488194/43 "2009-03-04T16:29:56Z")
> [@DudleyGarrett](#): > > I don’t know. I’ve always taken it as, “I’m dismissing everything else you right, because it’s irrelevant, and I’m just going to harp on this one sentence.” Just as often, it means, “I agree with most of your post, but I take issue with this part.” There’s a question you might ask yourself, when you’re feeling picked on. **“What else can this mean?”** If you’ve “always taken” things as slings and arrows, you may often be mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-annoyed-when-repliers-crop-your-posts/488194/44 "2009-03-04T18:13:51Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > Joining an email discussion list isn’t like joining a forum. All of the old messages don’t automatically appear in your inbox. And I don’t tend to keep all old emails I get. Most are irrelevant. The vast majority, I’ll never look at again. Most of my e-mail lists have online archives. Check the headers. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-annoyed-when-repliers-crop-your-posts/488194/45 "2009-03-04T18:33:27Z")
I prefer the cropping for the reasons already mentioned above. ---
**Author:** ![Driver8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Driver8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driver8)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-annoyed-when-repliers-crop-your-posts/488194/46 "2009-03-04T18:40:20Z")
> [@DudleyGarrett](#): > > I don’t know. I’ve always taken it as, “I’m dismissing everything else you right, because it’s irrelevant, and I’m just going to harp on this one sentence.” I think you’re taking it the wrong way, and chances are 99.9% of people who do this do not mean to imply this in any way. If you are addressing a specific point it does not make sense to have the entire post repeated over and over in the thread. It is already there, right in the same thread, and chances are it was already read. The smaller quote serves as a pointer into the original post to indicate what particular point is being addressed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-annoyed-when-repliers-crop-your-posts/488194.md?page=2)