piece of advice. This applies not only to newbies, but probably more to more veteran posters.
If you are going to post a subject line only, with no message in the message section, finish the subject line with EOM. If you do not do that, the readers will have to open the message, only to find no message. May not be a big deal, but I think it falls in the common courtesy field to let readers know that you are only posting the headline.
I see this all the time on every forum I look at. It irritates me when I open a msg and find it empty and there was no EOM warning.
I just realized I am guilty of this one thread down. You are right, it is common courtesy. I usually put the eom or -e-, but i forgot it today. My bad. Thanks for the reminder.
And likewise, when you reply to such a one-liner without removing the one line, please do remove the "eom" so it doesn't look like you contributed nothing, redundantly.
But if you're too lazy to write your own subject, you probably won't
There are several readons to click on EOM posts. Two of them were mentioned by xyz. 1) There are posters who put eom in their subject line but actually have something in the body of the post. Sometimes messages, sometimes pictures. 2) I may want to click on the posters reviews.
Other reasons besides those: 3) when I click on posts they turn orange. When I come back to a thread later I know with a quick glance if there are new posts on a thread I already read. (New posts will be black in a sea of orange) 4) For some reason, some people actually get annoyed that other people open eom posts. I enjoy annoying those people
The forum software is already able to count characters in a post so it SHOULD be relatively easy to add a "number of characters" field on each posts' info line:
This is the subject. - by impposter, 13/33/2099 8:36:39 PM (## reads), ## [character count] - This is a reply. - by replier, 13/33/2099 8:44:44 PM (## reads), ## [character count]
An empty post should be zero. A quoted reply with just a changed subject line would be the preceding character count plus zero. At least you would know whether you are about to open a short post or an encyclopedia entry.
As for me, I sometimes just control-click a series of posts into separate new tabs before I start reading (adding a tick to an EOM post) but I would rather just skip opening the true EOMs completely
piece of advice. This applies not only to newbies, but probably more to more veteran posters.
If you are going to post a subject line only, with no message in the message section, finish the subject line with EOM. If you do not do that, the readers will have to open the message, only to find no message. May not be a big deal, but I think it falls in the common courtesy field to let readers know that you are only posting the headline.
I see this all the time on every forum I look at. It irritates me when I open a msg and find it empty and there was no EOM warning.
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