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Subject: We are taught to read left to right, right? ~UPDATED~
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So why do threads progress downwards? I think it would make heaps more sense for posts in a thread to expand to the right and continue to do so. If posts went to the right instead of down then it would be a lot easier to read said posts in a thread and our minds would be stimulated back to the days of old when our only worries were whether or not there was cat feces in the sandbox we were playing in. Who wouldn't want that? I think it's high time we had some changes around here and I nominate this be the first of many. Who's with me?

Posted by: Phenomenon IV
Posted by: Seven
Yeah but my mouse has a scrolly thing to help me go down, not horizontally.

Just turn your mouse sideways.


[Edited on 12.10.2011 2:21 PM PST]

  • 12.10.2011 2:11 PM PDT
Subject: We are taught to read left to right, right?

Sure.

  • 12.10.2011 2:12 PM PDT

Quit -blam!- stalking me you weirdo.

But you read right, and break down after sentences.

  • 12.10.2011 2:12 PM PDT

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  • 12.10.2011 2:13 PM PDT

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It's much easier to section off posts that way. Otherwise, you're scrolling through avatars while you go to the right, and it's much more cluttered. Of course, you could make avatars and signatures go above and below posts, but then we'd be reading top to bottom.

Either way, that's not right. We read left to right, top to bottom. The top to bottom helps us section off posts in our minds, like I said before.

  • 12.10.2011 2:13 PM PDT

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Posted by: Phenomenon IV
Sure.
Do you mean having the posts progress further right after quoting?

  • 12.10.2011 2:14 PM PDT

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Left to right. Up to down. Don't go trying to fix something that's not broken.

  • 12.10.2011 2:14 PM PDT

Posted by: Sven Nietzsche

Posted by: Phenomenon IV
Sure.
Do you mean having the posts progress further right after quoting?

Sure.

  • 12.10.2011 2:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: The Hired Gun
But you read right, and break down after sentences.

I certainly don't break down after sentences, I'm appalled you would even think that. I'm much more strong willed than that.

  • 12.10.2011 2:15 PM PDT

Posted by: EDOET
Posted by: The Hired Gun
But you read right, and break down after sentences.

I certainly don't break down after sentences, I'm appalled you would even think that. I'm much more strong willed than that.

You don't? I have a lot of stains on my keyboard from crying.

  • 12.10.2011 2:16 PM PDT

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Where to the right are they going? Off the screen? I have to scroll horizontally?

No thank you.

  • 12.10.2011 2:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: Iggyhopper
Where to the right are they going? Off the screen? I have to scroll horizontally?

No thank you.

You're already taking the time to scroll down, scrolling horizontally would take the same amount of effort and time.

  • 12.10.2011 2:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: EDOET
Posted by: Iggyhopper
Where to the right are they going? Off the screen? I have to scroll horizontally?

No thank you.

You're already taking the time to scroll down, scrolling horizontally would take the same amount of effort and time.


Yeah but my mouse has a scrolly thing to help me go down, not horizontally.

[Edited on 12.10.2011 2:19 PM PST]

  • 12.10.2011 2:18 PM PDT

Posted by: Seven
Yeah but my mouse has a scrolly thing to help me go down, not horizontally.

Just turn your mouse sideways.

  • 12.10.2011 2:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: Seven

Posted by: EDOET
Posted by: Iggyhopper
Where to the right are they going? Off the screen? I have to scroll horizontally?

No thank you.

You're already taking the time to scroll down, scrolling horizontally would take the same amount of effort and time.


Yeah but my mouse has a scrolly thing to help me go down, not horizontally.

Easily taken care of; Bungie would just have to make a horizontally scrolling mouse and send it out to all the users on this site. There, a simple fix.

  • 12.10.2011 2:20 PM PDT

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Posted by: Phenomenon IV
Posted by: Seven
Yeah but my mouse has a scrolly thing to help me go down, not horizontally.

Just turn your mouse sideways.


Post of the day right here folks. Just turn that son of a -blam!- sideways and keep on postin'!

  • 12.10.2011 2:20 PM PDT

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Unless if I was reading the Bungie.net Threads on an iPad('cause of the multi-touch gestures), then I would probably be better off reading up to down,up.

  • 12.10.2011 2:20 PM PDT

Have A Nice Day!

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up to down,up + Heavy Punch = ShiinkuShoryuPost.

  • 12.10.2011 2:23 PM PDT

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Good idea, but why stop there? I think that we should abolish line breaks completely; every post should be one lengthy string of text. No more pesky paragraphs!

  • 12.10.2011 2:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: Zoidberg25
Good idea, but why stop there? I think that we should abolish line breaks completely; every post should be one lengthy string of text. No more pesky paragraphs!

But then you wouldn't be able to distinguish one post from other. Please only post serious feedback and ides in my thread, please.

  • 12.10.2011 2:25 PM PDT

Posted by: EDOET
Posted by: Zoidberg25
Good idea, but why stop there? I think that we should abolish line breaks completely; every post should be one lengthy string of text. No more pesky paragraphs!

But then you wouldn't be able to distinguish one post from other. Please only post serious feedback and ides in my thread, please.

Why don't we make a holographic screen like that thing in iron man so we can move the -blam!- everywhere!

  • 12.10.2011 2:27 PM PDT

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This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


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  • 12.10.2011 2:29 PM PDT

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  • 12.10.2011 2:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: Phenomenon IV
Posted by: Seven
Yeah but my mouse has a scrolly thing to help me go down, not horizontally.

Just turn your mouse sideways.

I thought about turning my mouse sideways after reading this.

  • 12.10.2011 2:30 PM PDT

Jack of all trades, master of none.

No. You'd have to scroll more. Reading down makes sense.

  • 12.10.2011 2:31 PM PDT

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