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Originally Posted by Granity
That's down to poor posting discipline, on that particular site (pprune) the mods would either just delete those posts or split them into a new thread if they were important enough
GB is not a very message friendly site because of the need to interface with groups, a good forum will have buttons for adding quotes, images, urls, you tube embedding etc.
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Ah, I see - you are arguing for using pure forums, I've now started to argue against using a forum to access a newsgroup.
Yes, I post to a forum and to a newsgroup. I prefer the newsgroup - it's what I'm used to, and I like the informality, and the way a newsgroup can develop and keep some sort of order without having a mod. My feeling is that a newsgroup encourages the sort of rambling inconsequential chat that we get on urg and which I enjoy, whereas forums are more disciplined and less relaxed. It also takes a lot more typing on a forum - none of those handy acronyms.
But I also feel regret for the newsgroups of 10-15 years ago, when it was much easier to turn newsgroup friendships into real life ones.
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