Quote from: Cricktor on Today at 08:58:37 PM

Quote from: mprep on Today at 02:33:37 PM

In the future, I'll generally refrain from merging old (as per what would be considered old when reporting a post) posts.

After what time is a post considered "old" in this context?

I do report unnecessary consecutive posts that violate rule 32 when it's obvious the user didn't know or care about this rule or maybe simply was too lazy (or too dumb?) to reply to multiple other users' posts with appropriate quotes in just one reply.

I'm not sure where exactly I draw the line and leave "old" consecutive posts as not worthy to report. The reporting function warns when the reported post is too old. I didn't pay attention how old it has to be to trigger the warning.

It's also likely that mobile phone posters tend to less refine their posts or not bother to gather different quotes from multiple users into a single reply post. Unnecessary large quotes (basically unedited full quotes) and sometimes therefore excessive quote pyramids are another annoyance for which mobile phone users might be more likely to blame. I don't know, it just sucks how careless some people bloat threads. Something's clearly wrong when quote-to-own-writing ratio exceeds 5:1 or more (as some rule of thumb). Unfortunately reporting such bad habits is less likely to gain traction and action by moderators.

I understand it's more blurry and considerably harder to properly moderate such things, because simply deleting such offenses isn't likely the best and only solution.

IIRC the report page warns you about the post being old if it was posted more than 6 months ago.