Forum etiquette - double-posting vs separating ideas?

[Mhaeric]

[347SPECTRE]

People snip when they're quoting a wall of text. It's to help streamline posts, which initially have a 1,000 character limit.
And personally, I'm not entirely sure how it's disrespectful.


As I had stated earlier, why is this a thing?

[reiichi]

As I had stated earlier, why is this a thing?

So people can purposely construct the nightmare post two above yours. (Possibly on a previous page for the handful of users who learned they can change the default posts per page).

Now, do you really want to click 8 "snips" to figure out which ones I've responded to, or the more likely thing is you'll just zip past those responses instead?

More than likely, people will make the assumption you were replying to ALL of them. Which you were. but if you have time to exceed the post limit just to make a petty post about your personal preferences when there are merits t o both sides, I'm not sure why people keep feeding the thread. :/

[HyoMinPark]

People snip when they're quoting a wall of text. It's to help streamline posts, which initially have a 1,000 character limit.

The character limit is exactly why I use “snip” on the rare occasions that I do. I use the full site on mobile, but it can be a real pain to navigate sometimes on a phone, so if I am typing something on the fly, I snip. On desktop, I still snip out irrelevant parts of a post if I am opting not to reply to them, so as there is no ambiguity about what I am addressing in my response. I don’t really consider it disrespectful to “snip” something; it’s more disrespectful to “snip” it, and then just blatantly not even answer what was said; because it tells me the person didn’t even take the time to read what was said.

As for why it’s a thing, well some people just like to be seen as right, I suppose. /shrug