Re: Top Posters Unite!

["Ulysses" <therealulysses@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yea, I got shamed into bottom posting, but no more!  I shall revert back to
my old degenerate ways no matter what the God of Usenet may say!

Who the hell decided that proper etiquette requires bottom posting anyway?
Probably some snob who never finished college and wears funny robes all the
time but has a long list of abbreviations after his name but doesn't
actually know how to do anything!


"RF Dude" <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Bottom posters just love to scroll down for *every* message instead of
using
> their page down button or simply clicking on the next message to see
> something new.
>
> Bottom posting became popular when the mouse scroll wheel was invented...
> one justifies the other.
>
> Bottom posters don't like to use a split screen to display message
contents
> since the space available is never enough to get them past the stuff
they've
> already read before.... they open each message to the entire screen so
that
> they have half a chance of seeing the response (at the bottom of the
message
> of course).
>
> Bottom posters have such a short memory that they didn't remember what
they
> just read one posting ago and like to see it all over again or don't like
to
> move one post up to see previous contributions.
>
> On an emotional side, bottom posters love the suspense waiting for the new
> response to show up while they are scrolling feverishly downward.  They
> would never cut, edit or abbreviate previous information to make their
> response shorter.  This would shorten the anticipation while searching for
> the new contribution.  Why read the readers digest version when you can
have
> it all?
>
> If they can't use their scroll wheel to get to the nugget of new info, the
> bottom poster doesn't feel fulfilled!
>
> TOP POSTERS UNITE!  Do post on the top!  Do edit out repetitious
> information, or leave only the bare minimum required for continuity BELOW
> your new information (as a courtesy)!  Be helpful to all the other readers
> so they can see the new information or response with no further fuss,
delay,
> or effort.  The biggest way to frustrate bottom posters is to give them
the
> information up-top so that the bottom poster doesn't have to scroll or
> anticipate!  WE SHALL PREVAIL!
>
>