Some prefer posting replies before the quoted question. Some prefer posting after the quoted question. Some prefer posting in the middle, or all over the place. Many (the "police") berate others for not posting in their particular style.
I prefer after (bottom posting), or during (middle posting) as it has more of a natural "flow" to it, much like regular conversation, and is handy for those who have either not read the previous posts, or do not have access to them due to servers dropping them, or whatever other reason.
Those who post their answers before the original text (top posting), claim that it speeds up their reading, since they don't have to (as they put it) "scroll all the way through a long post to find the next comment".
I have noticed that most top posters (and to a lesser extent bottom posters) have never heard of the concept of "editing", leading to 6,000 line posts with only a few words added at the beginning (or end, depending on the responder).
Top posters also claim that their way is correct since the "default" screen when you hit "reply" puts the cursor at the top. I think it's so you can reply to (or edit out) each idea presented in a post one at a time, instead of just adding a blanket comment that may be difficult to match to the correct sub-sub-sub reply in a post.
MasterBlaster put it) "scroll all the way through a long post to find the next comment".
That's fine, and they can do it on whatever messaging system they prefer, but we do not do that on Usenet. This is Usenet, and we follow the Usenet rules here.
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