I tried to respond to @Night07 on the Hong Kong thread, and this missive popped up. Am I being discouraged from responding publicly? or, is this a quirky response from the Discourse software? I’ll proceed accordingly. Thanks.
Thanks for your reply and clarification. Have not seen this response before.
meatn3
(equal opportunity eater in the NC Triangle)
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The system generates it. I think it is there to nudge the poster to evaluate if their post is of general interest related to the thread or if perhaps it has become a personal exchange that should be continued elsewhere.
This does not happen on all boards:
I was one of the early complainers. At it’s worst it was nearly impossible to follow some threads because rarely would one stay on topic. One would have to really dig deep within a long thread to find something related to the topic. Lots of personal conversations with little content. I suggested folks use the messaging rather than break the flow of topic related posting, I was in no uncertain terms shut down by some moderators … I gave up, if you can’t beat them join them, I’m as guilty as anyone else at the moment. Regardless I would still rather stay more on topic and have less discussion within a thread. It’s a particular turn off for new and infrequent posters. There used to be a lounge option or something like that allowed conversations among posters … I am certain this was not directed specifically to you, but more of an automatic … cool it !
I changed the default software setting of ’ max consecutive replies ’ (Number of posts a user has to make in a row in a topic before being prevented from adding another reply.) from 3 to 8. This should solve it.
