[papercreters] Trimming replies and threads getting entangled

Really, this is more for Spaceman's benefit, but I didn't want to reply to the original thread, out of genuine respect to him. Spaceman, you wrote:

Some of our members live in remote areas without high speed connections,
and pay dearly by the byte for data transfer.

Please trim your replies down to the part you are actually addressing.
There is no need to leave a long string under a short four or five
sentence reply. It's not hard to do, and it really helps out the folks
who don't have a fast connection.

Thanks.

No good deed goes unpunished, I guess. See, what I did here is to highlight the above text and do a copy/paste to insert it. I used the same topic but modified it a tad. It is solely to show that we could write a simple comment that doesn't necessarily truncate the original or main thread, but can be deleted without affecting the original. Like, a simple remark like "Good idea!" Or, "Nice work!" or whatever is conversational but not worth dragging along all the extra lines of the original.
If the reply is substantive and/or lengthy, then the "reply to all" button is more appropriate, since it may help a person to join a thread at that point but allows them to see it from the start. I really don't need a reply here, maybe a snappy riposte, if you'd like, but I value everyone's comments and contributions. I find myself wondering, "why am I posting this, when all I was doing was commenting along the thread about papercrete formulas for use in garden walls, and maybe learning from the advice of the gurus of papercrete"?
Note that I will delete anything under this crappy thread, just to show it has no greater importance. T-t-t-that's all, folks!



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