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I just switched over to threaded view, and yeah... exactly why I never bothered before: It's horrible. I've got no clue why people decided the standard on this board should be threaded view, because it's awkward, annoying, and takes entirely too much mouse effort to read a thread. I seem to recall there being some way to expand the post structure in threaded style on the old 54network board, but I can't see one here. Adding a simple 'Name,' to the beginning of a post or quoting text generally works well enough on other message boards.

I actually found the response to shaven embarassing. I can be as punishing and elitist as anybody when it comes to the obviously ignorant and clueless, but the Lounge is very different than most forums. There are more tactilly (and insulting, if you've got the wit) methods of telling people to RTFM. It almost sounds like a self fulfilling prophesy, a lounge full of lurkers afraid to post. Comical ;)

Yes, it's in the rules to act a certain way, and people should know better than to post without reading the rules, but frankly most people don't think of that. They usually don't have to. If you want to push people to be the best they can be and be overall greater persons, then show a little higher thought and enlightenment in your own actions. You've got two cheeks, you can turn one once.

At least I don't feel bad or fear chastizement for flaming two people in other threads who had obviously not played the beta or read the patch message.

And forgive the reply being only half on topic directly to you, Gris, I'm still in threaded, and wouldn't know where to reply anyway :P