Topic: Curious Question About Making First or Second Page on a Thread - page 2. (Read 344 times)

The thing that matters is the thread that you are posting in and not the page you post in, if it is a thread that the discussion is a quality and constructive one, and it goes on way past the first, second, third or even fourth-fifth page and so on, then there is no problem posting in a later page on such topics, because for the topic to still be ongoing, it means the discussion is still interesting and not redundant, the only thing you'd do is to read a couple of replies on previous pages so you'd know how to shape your own reply and how you can be constructive with it.

Having said that, there are spam mega-threads, these are topics that the discussion was over many pages before, but the discussion continues with redundancy and unnecessary replies, in most of these topics users plagiarize quite a lot, they just copy what a user posted in the first page and paste it in the 10th or so page; posting in such topics isn't advisable and bounty managers might not be happy with that.

But overall the forum rule isn't against a users posting in any page of a thread you like, but if you care about the forum and want it to be a decent place for people to discuss, you'd select topics to reply to and report topics that are filled with spam for moderators to decide what to do about them. Take note too that how early you reply to a post somewhat depends on how your day went in RL, if you have a busy day, you might meet topics late, but if you are always active in the forum and less busy in RL, you prolly will have the likelihood of joining discussions pretty quick and early.

To understand what are issues for discussion in a topic, you must read OP, the opening post. It is a must start and later you have to read posts after the OP. It is an additional reading step to get flow of discussion and to know the issue in OP already answered and solved or not.

If it was answered but not solved, you can join discussion and help if you have good answer.

If it was solved completely, you can just read. If you don't have your question such as need more explanation for the final answer, you should not post anything.

When you join a discussion, you join to help or join to get help.

So you're blame those members because they're faster than you? then you should learn how to type quicker with 10 fingers.

If the times posts is close, even though both of the posts contain same point, I'd say the second user didn't copying from the first user. But if it's already 5 pages+ and the discussion didn't continued to more deeply, that's the real repetition and spam since it just repetition from 10+ members opinion.

Don't get mad if someone is faster than you, as long as your post didn't get deleted, it means you're correct.

Campaign managers would like people that make post in the first page while some like Bestchange have it in its rules for post in pages more than 5th page would not be counted, but what that matters is to have a quality post, there are posts on the 3rd page or more that might require quoting, but it is good to followed the thread and know what exactly is going on than just repeating what others have posted.

I am unhappy most times when I miss posting a reply on the first or second page of a thread. This is because I think that my response may be a repetition. Another reason is that I am concerned about it's visibility. For instance, since I joined this forum some months ago, I have been keen to notice that some certain users such as mk4, Lucius, NotATether, jackg, Fivestar4everMVP, Upgrade00, Poker Player, *franky1, NeuroticFish, pooya87,hatshepsut93,hugeblack,GreatArkansas and a couple of others usually make either first or second page on most of the boards. Is this because they feel the same way as I do or because their signature campaign requires that they make first or sencond page. I know that franky1 is not in any signature campaign so I am curious to know. Is this normal? And are there other users who feel this same way too?