The original content of my post, under this subject header, was about the recent events involving a couple of our well-known and well-liked admins, and apparent accusations of checkuser abuses. The subject of how to deal with reading and catching up on threads was secondary, although still somewhat related, but nevertheless off the topic. This brought to mind the idea that people might integrate some basic courtesy in posting threads which deviate from the core topic, perhaps just by adding an (OT) in the subject line. More to the point, condensing excessively long subject headers would be good thing to do, particularly if they have words like "Nazis" and "rape" in them. -stevertigo On 9/1/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote: > Oskar Sigvardsson wrote: > > On 8/31/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Because in my personal opinion the quality of posts varies per author, > >> not per thread. > >> > >> Mind you, in practice I still read everything ... > >> > > I would call that impressive, but really, it's just mental :) > > > There are limits! A loooong post from some sender that I don't > recognize, and that begins with "Some bastard just blocked me ..." is > likely to draw as much of my reading time as the post that I am now > answering. :-) > > Ec >