hungryhorace

You don't though. Top posting is posting above *all* quotes, and NOT selectively quoting. Your posting style is terribly confusing, and I see no reason at all for it? What's most frustrating is that your advice is second to none here, yet reading the posts is so disjointed.

Noorah101

Many of us on here do the "selective quoting", although we post our answer after each separate quote. JEff posts his answer above each separate quote. It's not THAT confusing. You just have to remember JEff's answers are above, not below, each quote.

Rene

hungryhorace

It really is. For such a clever guy, as Jeff clearly is, it just makes completely no sense to post in this way.

jmood

Is there a generally accepted "forum etiquette" on this?

Sally Redux

I agree. It means you read the answer before the question.

hungryhorace

Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_quoting

markonline1

Always quote first then reply underneath. Not that I'm too bothered if folk want to do it the other way round.

Nutek

This.

scrubbedexpat097

But it's fun to be a rebel

Nutek

Shush you.

RICH

People should ask their questions in the right order.

Duncan Roberts

This aint Usenet.

hungryhorace

1. I am fully aware of this. However;
2. I do believe this forum actually started life on usenet, not a BBS.
3. The quoting etiquette that applies to usenet applies just as equally to BBS's.

jeffreyhy

I started top posting back in the days of DejaNews, when every quoted message included every other quoted message before it. When people bottom posted you had to sometimes go through pages of posts, which you'd already read, to get to the latest post way down at the bottom. I just want to see the response to the last most recent post, thank you, I've already read the rest of it.

BE does that automatically, which is usually a blessing except for those very terse posts (for which I am sometimes guilty) where you may need to see two posts back to get the context. But old habits die hard.

Then there's the concept of wanting people to think about what they're reading, not just be given answers, so they can actually understand and learn to figure things out for themselves. So yes, one might have to slow down and pay attention when they read my posts, not just rush through them, if they want to benefit from them. Like you, I'm loathe to tolerate able bodied but lazy people who want to get pushed in a wheelchair.

Regards, JEff

lansbury

It's the quality of the posts that count, not how they are posted. Plus JEffs' post are recognizable without even having to look to see who posted them. Be a boring old world if we were all the same.