I think (speaking for myself) that for the most part it doesn't matter to much because most threads are an ongoing conversation.

But it does happen fairly regularly that someone will make a specific comment or pose a question to someone and they post it to the wrong person. And on maybe rare occassions what was meant as a simple question to a particular person about their post, when sent as a "reply" to the wrong person who said something completely different in their post, then that question taken "out of context" can seem a little critical or offensive.

I do always try to post to the right person and i appreciate when others do because if they are responding to something particular it may help to go back and look at the post they were responding to to help understand what they were thinking. This way people don't have to "quote" everything all the way down in their posts which can make the threads unruly on other boards.

sky I also had difficulty figuring out about the reply button... originally i was a while before i even noticed that replies had a name reference (originally i was just hitting "reply" at the bottom of the page thinking it was just overall for the thread like it is on most forums) and then figuring out which reply was correct, the one at the top of the post or the one at the bottom... admittedly not necessarily rocket science but also not obvious without trying it. Once I got into the habit of it though it became second nature. So much so that from this reply screen I can't even remember which one is correct, I just hit it by reflex now.

As to the other stuff I have noticed that the FAQ doesn't really answer a lot of questions. The markup tags you can use can come up in a list if you click "use markup in your posts" right above the post box. I see now it also clearly says "HTML is enabled" but I hadn't seen that before now, I figured out on my own that I could use regular HTML tags.

I agree that it would be nice to have something like a "help" written so all this info is available in one spot, of course the trick there is to get someone to sit down and do it. I'm not willing to volunteer at this point but maybe sometime soon.

Until then I guess it is just "ask and you shall (hopefully) receive"

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