On Sun, 2019-07-21 at 21:54 -0400, Jason Cobb wrote: > On 7/21/19 9:26 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > (Ugh, I hate top-posting threads, but it's too late to reverse this > > now.) > > I'm sorry, what's a "top-posting thread" and why is it bad?
It's down to how the nested quotes of the messages are ordered. I've edited this message into "bottom-posting" order; each reply comes below the message it's replying to, meaning that you can easily see the context in its appropriate place. When top-posting, each reply comes /above/ the message it's replying to, so trying to follow the thread after the fact means you have to jump around in the page. When bottom-posting, it's also normal to edit the quotes to contain only the immediately relevant context, so that people can immediately know what precisely is being replied to (and if you want to reply to two different points in a message, you split the message at those points and place the replies immediately below the things they're replying to). When top-posting, people often forget (because the message they're replying to is at the bottom and hard to read due to being out of order), so the quote pyramid often just grows indefinitely. Agora used to be exclusively bottom-posted, but there was an influx of new players a while back whose email clients top-posted by default and it's lead to a mix of quoting styles being used. -- ais523
