What is top posting, and why is it so hated here?
Top posting is the act of posting your reply on top of quoted material, that is, ahead of the text to which you are responding, rather than placing your response either at the bottom of quoted material or interspersed throughout it. AGE is a newsgroup that on the whole feels strongly about top posting, and the feelings are not warm and fuzzy. The discussions in AGE are often complex and wandering, and having to scroll to the bottom of a post to see what the heck a person is replying to is awkward and annoying, and breaks the flow of the post. You might prefer top posting and that is your prerogative, but if you insist on using it here you can expect to be flamed and to land on a lot of folks’ Kill Files. And please don’t try to skirt the issue by just not quoting anything at all, either. People are not going to go back through the thread playing detective to try to figure out what the heck you’re responding to. Similarly, if you’re responding to a long post, don’t quote the whole post;
