Forum etiquette - double-posting vs separating ideas?

[KisaiTenshi]

This is something I've been wondering for a while when making posts in this forum. Because of the "like post" feature I feel like it makes sense to split up my replies to discusions where we are talking about more than one topic. Otherwise if I talk about two separate things in the one post, people might want to 'like' my response to one of those statements but disagree with the other?

Likes don't mean anything except for the Topic poster.

In a thread, you should consolidate all your replies into one post on the same page to avoid three issues:
1. This is not a chatroom.
2. The maximum posts you can do per 24 hour window is about 10.
3. The maximum character limit is 1000 characters.

As long as a thread has not progressed to another page, keep editing the post to respond to anything previous to your post. This is what I do up to three or so other replies.

I also agree that 'snip' is the worst thing. I don't know or remember what someone's replying to, especially if it's four pages back. Keeping context with quotes is the idea, and just replacing it with some word does nothing for me. I don't want to go back to the quoted post just to see what someone should have included in the first place.

Bingo. Only trim out the parts you're not responding to. Doing "-snip-" or changing the text other than bolding/italics, is insulting the quoted poster in a way that putting your hands over someone's mouth while they are talking is.