As a developer, it is sometimes difficult to follow topics due to unnecessary amounts of spam from users replying in consecutive posts to each other rather than incorporating their responses into a single reply as requested in the rules. This also contributes towards posts being bumped unnecessarily and overall clutter in topics, which is quite annoying.
If we could reply to multiple people at once, I believe this rule would be broken far less frequently than it currently is. To give a clear idea of what I’m proposing, this could work by opening a reply to someone when you click Reply as it does currently, and if you click Reply under an additional post, the author of that post will be added to the ‘recipients’ list - if that’s what you’d call it.
I quickly made a small mock-up to demonstrate how this might look:
If you then clicked Reply under a post that’s already been selected, it could then remove the recipient from the list. The reply would then obviously be linked to each of the listed posts once uploaded.
You might argue that this feature is useless since you can just use @ to respond to each user, but I still think this feature is important to have since it’ll list the response under the Replies section under each post, helping to better structure the topic and improve its readability.
I think having this feature would make it much more obvious to newcomers to include all of their responses in a single reply; since replies are currently restricted to having only one recipient, I think this gives people an indication that they should make one post per person, which is bad practice and against the rules.
If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my experience using the forum because it would reduce spam, make conversations easier to follow and reduce the overall amount of clutter in topics since they would become more organised.
If you’re following a specific conversation within a topic, you’d probably look at the replies so you can quickly access each post. When replying to people with that method (which is currently the best we can do) you’re only limited to ‘replying’ to one person at most. If you could reply to multiple people then your post would be listed in the replies of each post you’ve replied to, hence why I spoke about improving readability overall.
I’m not requesting to be allowed to spam posts, I’m requesting a feature which allows us to reply to multiple people in the same post to reduce the amount of spam. My solution is simply a more obvious alternative to the format we’ve been stuck using to give multiple replies at once.
I still feel like the format I gave in my original response would be still cleaner in most cases, even with your suggested plugin, since you’d be responding to people who might be having slightly different responses to you.
Sorry, but would you mind clarifying what you mean here? I don’t understand.
The whole point I’m making with the feature I requested is to give us a more formalised, structured way of responding to several people at once rather than doing it with our old school method of the one you gave an example of in your first post. With it being more formalised - and obvious to newer users, this would hopefully promote the practice of replying to posts in a single reply, rather than across several posts, to cut spam and reduce clutter.
There’s nothing wrong with the current method of doing so, of course, but I just don’t think it’s obvious enough to some newcomers that this is what’s expected, so a more refined system such as the one I’ve put forward would hopefully better promote good practice.
Let’s say that you posted a drawing of a dog in a park. User1 tells you that the grass behind it isn’t green enough, User2 says that the sun isn’t realistic enough, and User3 says that the dog doesn’t look like a dog.
Yes, your method may be more obvious, but if we’re talking about a new user, in this case, I am more than sure that they’d put their response in one single streamline of responses, which would be hard to follow and respond to.
That’s why some of us have had pushed for a mandatory Discobot tutorial that’d be expanded with what is expected norm here.
See, I’m not so sure about that myself. I’d think, if this feature was implemented, people would move more towards ‘replying’ to anybody they’ve mentioned in their post, so I’d think at least some of the newcomers would resort to following this.
Also, I haven’t heard or seen anything about mandatory Discobot tutorials myself, but I’m definitely glad that’s being thrown around, especially when you consider the automatic process which is granting people access to use the forum (but that’s drifting slightly off topic so I’ll shush ).
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