Post nest structure tutorial
I guess it's just a random thing but I seem to have encountered a lot of topics lately where posts seem to have been inserted in the wrong place - ie- the reply specifically refers to a post and is not in the correct nest structure for that post. I'm assuming this is because posters are unclear as to where to hit 'reply' for their post to appear in the right order. This sometimes makes enjoying the boards difficult.
This would seem to be an issue of education of posters so I'm just wondering if this is something the site is looking into for a method of user direction or if there's any way to make that happen.
By Midlife
on Feb 11, 2009 01:01 PM
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It's an occasional problem, but rarely a deadly one. It mostly happens when someone chooses 'reply to original post' when they needed to hit 'reply' on a specific post or vice versa, replying to the last post in the thread, instead of the original post.
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Of course it's not deadly, it just makes following "conversations" more difficult. I must have hit a patch of them because immediately after reading your post, last nigh, I went to another topic and found the latest post referred to the specific details of a prior post but was nested below one that had taken a completely different tack.
I was only wondering if there was a way to help people with posting geography, knowing full well that most will ignore the help.
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I think a better way to handle this, if the poster is new to the site, is for someone to refer them over here to this thread (or another similar one of which there have been many) which talks about this issue. That way they get educated and we improve the site a little bit in the process (of showing the newbie how to stay on topic by going to Site Talk and how to figure out how to reply to the post they really want to). If they aren't new then they probably just fouled up, like we are all prone to doing every now and then.
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Wow. Since I wrote my OP i keep running into more and more out of place posts. It's much more than an occasional thing.
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