Any news on this, is the rule staying or going?
Resolved: Unable to reply when quoting in a thread I've quoted in before
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The team has received feedback from a handful of Head-Fi'ers and we're currently discussing everything has been shared with us. Since the rule regarding multiple posts has been around since before I started lurking on the forums, I can assure you that multi-posting will not be allowed going forward. We are continuing to discuss the feedback as we consider possible minor changes to the rule.
AstronomerXI
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Beware the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Having said that, have you considered amending the multi-posting rule e.g. no more than x # of consecutive posts vs 1 only and waiting for someone else to post before you can add another? For the Schiit Happened thread, for example, a person might fall behind 10's or even 100's of pages very quickly. Multi-quoting in one reply could take a day or days as one plows through the messages. Reading that multi-topic post is frankly a crap way to follow a particular discussion. There has to be a better way than swatting a fly with a sledgehammer.
Whilst I'm at least grateful it's being discussed, I've multi-posted in the Free FLAC thread for nearly 10 years without it being a problem. Not one single word of warning and even active participation from a few Moderators some years ago. I've even had Artists message me and post in the thread stating how they're getting noticed and getting big downloads because of the thread.
I get it for some threads, it can be difficult wading through the waffle but for a lot of the Music threads in particular, it will kill them stone dead and Music is the ultimate end game, not gear. Maybe a limit on the number of posts per day (to stop people just getting their post count up) would serve better or if it's for Spam, a time limit between posts.
It's my last word on this, I don't want to badger anyone, but personally, I think it's a huge mistake if it stays forum wide and it'll be pointless me being here as it's pretty much the only thread I post in nowadays due to work / family commitments. There's no fun for me in free music if I can't share it.
A lot of people have made genuine friendships on here because of the ability to multi-post in threads, it would be a huge regret going forward to lose the Community Aspect of Head-fi, all that will be left is effectively adverts for manufacturers and endless shilling.
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I just had to post a nothing post in the Prog Rock thread just so the previous poster could post some new content they wanted to share - this is farcical 
I just had to post a nothing post in the Prog Rock thread just so the previous poster could post some new content they wanted to share - this is farcical
Soon "non content" posts will be outlawed too, and/or deleted so they won't help someone post again. What an utterly nonsensical policy.
streetbeat
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I've new impressions on a niche headphones after a week or two of use. Thread subscribers wouldn't ever see it if I had to edit my last post. Dead silence.
akmal2789412237682
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edited posts should bump threads and create notifications
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Always have been.
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AstronomerXI
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I think you misread the intent of the post that you quoted. Policy as it's being now enforced will result in a decline in engagement and/or death of some forums. See my comment above re: Law of Unintended Consequences. While I don't doubt the noble intentions behind all of this, it's resulting in a poorer user forum experience. It's your sandbox to do as you wish, so I suspect that the feedback has the same weight as a fart in a wind storm, to use a Canadian east coast colloquialism.
Also, beware this:
"E n s h i t t i f i c a t i o n" is a slang term that describes the decline in quality of online products and services over time
Explanation:
The term is also known as crapification or platform decay (not the the forum policy's intent, but a consequence).
Canadian writer Cory Doctorow coined the term in 2023.
In 2024, Australia's Macquarie Dictionary named E n s h i t t i f i c a t i o n its word of the year.
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I have noticed that sponsors have still been able to double-post after this recent rule enforcement. Needless to say that they as sponsors do not accept having their post amendments hidden from watchers or not flagged in the New posts section.
So at least we know it is possible to make member-specific exceptions to this enforcement. The Head-Fi admins may still decide that this is a rule that applies to all members other than sponsors (which is reasonable; they are helping fund this site), but there is no technical impediment at least.
How about having new sponsor post notifications flagged in a stand-out color? That way they don't get buried and lost underneath all the new post notifications by non-sponsor members.
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You'd still have a single post run ridiculously long and become messy over time. You'd essentially end up scrolling through one post to see the new content added to it at the end: a post would become mini-thread within a thread.
I don't think I've ever seen it enforced. Lots of "testing" and "..." and especially emjoi posts over the years not deleted.
Considering the size of the Head-Fi community compared to the number of moderators, it should come as no surprise that the majority of moderating on the site is reactive. We rely heavily on community members to let us know via the report function when posts may not meet our community guidelines. After review, if moderation steps are necessary then the appropriate action(s) will be taken. Of course moderators will proactively moderate when we come across posts that do not meet the guidelines in our browsing of the forums, but there will no doubt be many posts on the site that are still up despite going against the guidelines simply because they've never been brought to our attention.
This can't be emphasized enough; while the actual change has had a dramatic chilling effect on the entire website since implemented (at least in the forums I usually follow), editing only works to add to an existing post, not to add new replies.
(**unless I'm more of a Luddite than I realized)
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