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Subject: How far back is to far back to reply?
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I ask the community how far back do you reply to posts? I was thinking it's fine to read back to page 3 or 4 and reply with a meaningful comment but beyond that it might be bumping...

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  • 10.09.2005 8:42 AM PDT
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It depends on which forum. In the septagon, anything past page 2 is old news to me. In a forum as active as Zanzibar, page 4 is ok. This is because of the activity within each forum is different.

  • 10.09.2005 8:49 AM PDT

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Yeah. I'm in agreement with Josher. In The Septagon, time goes slowly and a thread oftern gets sufficiantly answered before it finds its way to page 2. However, for New Mombasa or Zanzibar, i'd go back to page say 3-4 i think.

  • 10.09.2005 9:31 AM PDT
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ah.

I think that it could be based on how often you check the mesage boards as well. I don't get to have a good look for days at a time so page 3 Septagon is still new to me. I try and only go to Zanzibar if I am feeling daring. :)

  • 10.09.2005 10:38 AM PDT
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Yeah, it really depends. In the Flood, you can go back twenty pages and still only be a few days old. Here, if you go back twenty pages you're talking a few months old.

  • 10.09.2005 10:47 AM PDT

Depends whether or not you have anything worthwhile to add.

  • 10.09.2005 10:57 AM PDT
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My friend, you would not tell with ſuch high zeſt
To children ardent for ſome deſperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum eſt
Pro patria mori.

Don't forget that the relevance/quality of the reply is a factor here. Reviving a year-old post just to add "I agree" is pretty safely in the 'you moron!' category...

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  • 10.09.2005 10:59 AM PDT
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One, if the first page is complete crap the rest will be too.

  • 10.09.2005 2:48 PM PDT

I'm not that active, but never dead.

Not necessarily, sometimes intelligent discussions are buried by spam.

  • 10.09.2005 5:07 PM PDT
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Once the Search Feature rolls around, it'll never be too far back so long as you have something relevant to add.

  • 10.09.2005 5:27 PM PDT
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Technically, you can reply to anything that has been replied to at least once in the last 60 days. Whether or not you should is debatable.

  • 10.09.2005 5:50 PM PDT