[BruceZ]

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Bruce's three replies is probably one of the weirdest things I've ever seen on the internet.

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I assume you're being sarcastic. Otherwise this must be your first day on the internet.

What could you possibly find weird about it? I chose to respond to each person in case they didn't all read the whole thread. As for my "for the last time" comment, that was just in regard to my having just typed the same thing in three different posts, but I answered these in random order. My exasperation was with the people who have such small lives that they can't wait to leap to judgement about something they know nothing about, and my exasperation was justified.


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The only possible explanation I can come up with is that he may be a threaded viewer, but I cannot imagine anyone in their right mind doing that.

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Yes I use threaded mode as it is the only rational way to use this forum and be able to keep track of multiple sub-threads. Flat mode just mixes the sub-threads together and puts the posts in order of oldest to newest, not any kind of logical order. Unless people are careful to always quote what they are responding to (I do, but many don't) there is often confusion about who is responding to what. This is more important in a mathematical forum such as probability than it is here. As a creator of content that people come here to reference, I can tell you for sure that you are missing something if you view my threads in flat mode. If you had been using threaded mode, you would not have found anything weird about my 3 posts. If I used flat mode, I would have responded the same way, because I would not assume that everyone else was using flat mode.

To make a statement like "no one in their right mind" uses threaded mode is to show extreme ignorance. To make such a statement while critiquing another's posting ability is simply laughable. Each forum mode has its advantages and disadvantages, and each has many advocates among the mature user population. That's why we support both modes, not because the developers are not in their right minds.

And BTW I don't have anywhere near 3000 posts. That's only how many I have since this "new" software was introduced in 2002, which is a fraction of what I had all together going back to the latter part of the last century. So for you people who have been here for all of 1 year, I suggest that in the future you figure out who the hell you're talking to, as well as what the hell you are talking about, before making an ass of yourself.