Re: A simple question "Is it against the forum rules make "double posting" ?
There is no rule against "double posting" as you are describing. Who was the moderator that did this and what was the post?
By making two posts, it makes it easier to read, especially when you are quoting multiple responses. If you make one post that responded to 5 or 6 different people then more likely then not the people you are responding to will either not see that you responded to them or will otherwise ignore your post.
This practice may or may not be post padding, however post padding is not against the rules, making insubstantial posts however is, so as long as each of your posts are not insubstantial and contributes to the conversation then you should be fine.
By making two posts, it makes it easier to read, especially when you are quoting multiple responses. If you make one post that responded to 5 or 6 different people then more likely then not the people you are responding to will either not see that you responded to them or will otherwise ignore your post.
This practice may or may not be post padding, however post padding is not against the rules, making insubstantial posts however is, so as long as each of your posts are not insubstantial and contributes to the conversation then you should be fine.
read my reply above the quote, it was not insubstantial posts. Wait, I have received this PM (before see the post merged):
The way that your two posts were merged make it very difficult to read/follow. This is exaggerated by the fact that your references are now in the middle of your posts. I would even go as far to say that your posts went from being two constructive posts to being one incoherent post.
I am not surprised that grue was the one who merged the posts and good luck getting an explanation from him. I have only received invalid actions by him. He once told me to stop reporting duplicate/undeleted old bumps because there is no rule against leaving them in the thread, however once I pointed him to the specific rule allowing them he acknowledged that he was wrong (however I was left with a good number of reports that were incarcerated marked as invalid). More recently he deleted a bump because I had bumped my thread less then 24 hours after the previous bump, however after proving that it had been more then 24 hours since my last bump he responded with a screenshot of his browser history (
) and when I followed up with him asking him why he thought that I had bumped my thread less then 24 hours prior to my most recent bump along with the times each post was made I did not receive a response. I have long speculated that he has figured out the formula that theymos uses to calculate how much each moderator gets from the forum ad sales, and that grue pads his moderator activity to increase his payout. If you exclude the amount that BadBear gets, then grue makes well over 2x the amount that the next highest paid moderator gets on a consistent basis. The problem is that this is very difficult to prove as most of the information needed to prove this is unavailable to me.