# What is the highest number of posts in a row you're willing to make in one thread?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 28, 2011, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883 "2011-02-28T05:41:06Z")
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2011, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/1 "2011-02-28T05:41:06Z")
I have this thread in GD on a topic that concerns me greatly ([this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=597899), 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.)
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/2 "2011-02-28T05:51:55Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2011, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/3 "2011-02-28T06:14:06Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2011, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/4 "2011-02-28T06:18:28Z")
It depends upon the thread, but I don’t like making more than two (though sometimes I’m guilty).
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### Author:  [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2011, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/5 "2011-02-28T08:30:03Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2011, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/6 "2011-02-28T08:38:43Z")
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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12876337).
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### Author:  [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/7 "2011-02-28T14:41:43Z")
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)
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/8 "2011-02-28T14:51:58Z")
As long as I don’t expose my Redundant Rhetoric Posting Disorder, I won’t set a number.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/9 "2011-02-28T14:57:35Z")
Just one.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/10 "2011-02-28T14:58:51Z")
Unless I think of something I should have added and I miss the edit window.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/11 "2011-02-28T15:00:19Z")
But how often would that happen? Pretty rarely.
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### Author:  [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/12 "2011-03-02T00:11:48Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/13 "2011-03-02T00:21:24Z")
In the American Idol threads, I will frequently make a few posts in a row, because I’m doing running commentary.
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/14 "2011-03-02T00:34:48Z")
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.)
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### Author:  [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/15 "2011-03-02T01:04:33Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/16 "2011-03-02T01:06:27Z")
That five in a row was in GQ, not GD though.
(I could have edited my post to add that comment, but … you know.)
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### Author:  [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/17 "2011-03-02T01:07:58Z")
Two is my limit, though even then, I try to only use that when I’ve passed the edit window.
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### Author:  [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/18 "2011-03-02T01:15:52Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#):
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> But how often would that happen? Pretty rarely.
I must say when I read the OP I expected a lot more of this type of response 🙂
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### Author:  [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/19 "2011-03-02T01:26:48Z")
Three. If quoting others, and catching up, I might go 4-5.
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### Author:  [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-posts-in-a-row-youre-willing-to-make-in-one-thread/572883/20 "2011-03-02T05:32:01Z")
> [@Philster](#):
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> Three. If quoting others, and catching up, I might go 4-5.
Multiquote ain’t all that hard to figure out.
I do two on rare occasions when I’ve fucked up.
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