What is the highest number of posts in a row you're willing to make in one thread?

In My Humble Opinion
1

I have this thread in GD on a topic that concerns me greatly (this one, in case you were wondering), and I ended up making two posts in a row at the end of it, mostly because I remembered something that I wanted to say after the edit expiration. However, I’ve now thought of MORE I wanted to say. But no one’s replied to the thread since those two in a row, and I feel strangely reluctant to add a third.

So how many posts in a row are you willing to make in one thread? Does it matter if you started it or not? What do you think of people who make more in a row than you’re willing to make? (Not necessarily here, obviously; any forum or message board will do – heck, even newsgroups count.)

2

Two is a little uncomfortable but sometimes necessary to keep things straight and clear. Three is one too many - I do try to avoid doing that, too.

3

I’ll post whatever amount I feel is appropriate. For example, if I’m responding to several other posts in a thread I’ll probably make each of my responses a seperate post to avoid confusion.

4

It depends upon the thread, but I don’t like making more than two (though sometimes I’m guilty).

5

Two if I missed the window, but with a mental note to think before I write in the future.

Ideally, unless you are answering somebody’s comment on your post or the line of discussion changes/develops, you should only post once.

6

Whenever I do a second post in a row, I wish I had had more time in the edit window.

Not that I think the edit window is too short, I just don’t like having two posts in a row.

7

At another board, more than once, I went over 10.

(threads were usually humorous, like finding disturbing food products, or posting sad and funny personal ads I had found)

8

As long as I don’t expose my Redundant Rhetoric Posting Disorder, I won’t set a number.

9

Just one.

10

Unless I think of something I should have added and I miss the edit window.

11

But how often would that happen? Pretty rarely.

12

Excluding special cases where it makes sense for someone to deliberately post regular updates or something, the most I can imagine is four, and normally not more than one. Four would be:

  1. What do I think about that? I think blah.
  2. Oops, edit window has closed, I made major typo that makes a sentence too offensive/wildly wrong to just leave.
  3. OK, I’ve gone to look it up, and actually blah-de-blah.
  4. Oops, edit window has closed, I made major typo that makes a sentence too offensive/wildly wrong to just leave. AGAIN. I AM SO SILLY, SORRY!
13

In the American Idol threads, I will frequently make a few posts in a row, because I’m doing running commentary.

14

I don’t mind posting twice because I’ve forgotten something and the edit window has closed. I don’t like posting a third time but would do it if I thought I was adding something to the conversation. I would not post four times unless under special circumstances (say I’d just been in a flood and was posting updates or something.)

15

I’ve seen five in a row, I think.

Personally, I think you should go for it some time. Wait a couple weeks, pick a slow topic at a slow time, and see how far you can get before a mod complains or someone else comments.

Then report back here.

16

That five in a row was in GQ, not GD though.

(I could have edited my post to add that comment, but … you know.)

17

Two is my limit, though even then, I try to only use that when I’ve passed the edit window.

18

I must say when I read the OP I expected a lot more of this type of response :slight_smile:

19

Three. If quoting others, and catching up, I might go 4-5.

20

Multiquote ain’t all that hard to figure out.

I do two on rare occasions when I’ve fucked up.