#1

I just got this message

No more than 2 consecutive replies are allowed. Please edit your previous reply, or wait for someone to reply to you.

When I was, I believe, attempting to add useful content to a thread. I’d replied to two posts, both specific replies. And after reading a few other posts I decided to add a general comment. But I wasn’t able to. Just FYI admin.

I’ve saved it as a text file and will post when I can but maybe we could ask what the benefits of this rule are?

#2

For context, it is a feature of the forum software.

Here is where the idea originated.

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#3

@lloydcole, would there be any issue with simply editing your initial reply to respond to multiple users?

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#4

It’s there to prevent flooding. Please use the quote tool to reply to different messages in the same post.

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#5

indeed, this is a feature of our software to prevent flooding and spam.

you can use the quote tool within the bottom reply box, or use the quick-quote feature, where just selecting/highlighting a passage of text will pop-up an offer to add the quote to the box for you. you can select & highlight text multiple times without having to first click “reply” in the editor; discourse is smart enough to paste each quote sequentially within the same reply box.

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#6

plus, for everyone else reading, quoting is much clearer since you don’t have to scroll up to see what is being responded to.

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#7

Well, I did think about that, but it was two different points, and one post addressing two different points seemed potentially confusing.

#8

This is a great place to use the quotes feature, as it makes responding to

much less confusing :slight_smile:

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#9

OK, I didn’t know this was possible. I now know how to quote two posts in one reply. Thanks, all. Protocol understood. I don’t necessarily 100% agree for all circumstances, but will follow these directions henceforth.

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#10

Just ran into this here where it’s not really a flood, but rather an update on a previous post. I’ve edited the previous post as that’s the only available option, but I guess there are some circumstances where posting an update requires consecutive posts. (the issue doesn’t pop up in this thread, though there are longer gaps in between)