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…if I post on the top then I don’t have to snip and you don’t have to scroll.

You are correct. Whenever you post, I don’t have to scroll. Lumpy — In Your Ears for 40 Years http://www.lumpymusic.com

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Betcha there’s somewhere around a gazillion threads on top vs bottom posting.  Bottom is certainly the accepted standard, although top works better in some (very few) instances. The last known instance of which was in April of 1947.

I was gonna say it was probably during the Truman administration, you nailed it!  :) There are a few situations in which you might wanna make a short comment about a previous long post, and it would be difficult to trim the post without losing its meaning.  Might not make sense to force people to scroll down thru it to see your comment.  Other than that, bottom posting rulz.

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But if I post on the top then I don’t have to snip and you don’t have to scroll. Yes, and if they’d make highways out of rubber, we could make car tires out of concrete, but that’s not the way it’s done.  In most of the world, we read from top to bottom.

But what if there’s a parallel backward universe where highways ARE made out of rubber and tires are concrete?!?! An example of this is Microsoft Outlook/Exchange and Lotus Notes. When office workers reply to emails, 99% just add there 2 cents to the top of the email thread. I’m not about defending the top-posting argument—-it’s just that external influences are something else to think about.  With the Gen-X, Gen-Y, and Gen-Z growing up and seeing these upside down email threads at the office as "normal", then there may be a gradual shift from bottom-posting to top-posting. Men used to wear hats… womens pants used to be unacceptable.  USA drives on the right, UK drives on the left.  The beauty of etiquitte evolution…

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But if I post on the top then I don’t have to snip and you don’t have to scroll. I no you don’t care, but by flouting established conventions you limit your audience. Lots of people will PLONK arrogant top-posters on sight, figuring they are a troll with nothing useful to contribute.

Betcha there’s somewhere around a gazillion threads on top vs bottom posting.  Bottom is certainly the accepted standard, although top works better in some (very few) instances.

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But if I post on the top then I don’t have to snip and you don’t have to scroll.

Yes, and if they’d make highways out of rubber, we could make car tires out of concrete, but that’s not the way it’s done.  In most of the world, we read from top to bottom. — Outgoing mail is certified bollocks

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Betcha there’s somewhere around a gazillion threads on top vs bottom posting.  Bottom is certainly the accepted standard, although top works better in some (very few) instances.

The last known instance of which was in April of 1947. — Many thanks, Don Lancaster Synergetics   3860 West First Street  Box 809  Thatcher, AZ 85552 Please visit my GURU’s LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -But if I post on the top then I don’t have to snip and you don’t have to scroll. PJ This is why I hate bottom posting. You make the cardinal mistake of not snipping 240 lines of garbage you’re making no comment on, then add insult to injury by blaming the problem on bottom posting. Notice how easily I solved the problem of having to do all that scrolling. — Outgoing mail is certified bollocks

If you trim your quotes, no one has to scroll, and we don’t have to read Jeopardy-style, where answers appear before questions.

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|| But if I post on the top then I don’t have to snip and you don’t || have to scroll. PJ || ||| ||| |||| This is why I hate bottom posting. ||| ||| You make the cardinal mistake of not snipping 240 lines of garbage ||| you’re making no comment on, then add insult to injury by blaming ||| the problem on bottom posting. ||| ||| Notice how easily I solved the problem of having to do all that ||| scrolling. ||| ||| — ||| ||| Outgoing mail is certified bollocks I gotta agree with PJ…. Most of us follow the threads anyway… And if we forget or don’t know what’s going on we can scroll down and get the scoop… Then again… I already got creamed for this PJ… you’re on your own. Evil T — Anyone who steals my identity gets what they deserve

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – But if I post on the top then I don’t have to snip and you don’t have to scroll. PJ This is why I hate bottom posting. You make the cardinal mistake of not snipping 240 lines of garbage you’re making no comment on, then add insult to injury by blaming the problem on bottom posting. Notice how easily I solved the problem of having to do all that scrolling. —

But top posting screws up the order, since most read from top to bottom (and left to right).

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But if I post on the top then I don’t have to snip and you don’t have to scroll. I no you don’t care, but by flouting established conventions you limit your audience. Lots of people will PLONK arrogant top-posters on sight, figuring they are a troll with nothing useful to contribute. — The Official AMP Performance Sucks Thread: http://forum.1320stangs.com/index.php?showtopic=5555&st=0

Fortunately, top posters eventually grow so much hair on the palms of their hands that they can no longer type. — Many thanks, Don Lancaster Synergetics   3860 West First Street  Box 809  Thatcher, AZ 85552 Please visit my GURU’s LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com

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But if I post on the top then I don’t have to snip and you don’t have to scroll. PJ – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is why I hate bottom posting. You make the cardinal mistake of not snipping 240 lines of garbage you’re making no comment on, then add insult to injury by blaming the problem on bottom posting. Notice how easily I solved the problem of having to do all that scrolling. — Outgoing mail is certified bollocks

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muttered something like: But if I post on the top then I don’t have to snip and you don’t have to scroll.

If you don’t think your message is worth the minimal effort of trimming quoted text, then I certainly don’t think it’s worth the time to read it. -Bertha — "Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence."  – Serendipity, "Dogma"

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Snip 240-or-so-lines of reposted crap Worth reading if only for the last few lines. Richard. This is why I hate bottom posting. PJ

This is why bottom posting and editing to the essential is a GOOD thing.

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This is why I hate bottom posting.

You make the cardinal mistake of not snipping 240 lines of garbage you’re making no comment on, then add insult to injury by blaming the problem on bottom posting. Notice how easily I solved the problem of having to do all that scrolling. — Outgoing mail is certified bollocks

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Notice how easily I solved the problem of having to do all that scrolling.

You mean he actually added new text? I don’t really care where they put it; if they’re too lazy to trim it it’s not worth reading. -Bertha — Zoe: I think this is something that the captain needs to do for himself. Mal: No it isn’t!  No it isn’t! Zoe: Oh!

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – August 3, 2004 Problem for Cops on eBay Beat: Crooks Keep Getting Smarter In L.A., Mr. Fawrup Uncovers Scams With Global Scope; A Race to Find a Necklace Mr. Inoue Loses $61,000 By NICK WINGFIELD Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL NORWALK, Calif. — One of eBay Inc.’s official tenets is that "people are basically good." George Fawrup wants to find the eBay users who are altogether bad. For the last 2

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