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Originally Posted by glatt
You've mentioned this before. How do you read the Cellar? Did you open this thread in one tab, and then open a bunch of other tabs to read up on Google search protocol? That's the main way that I end up posting slowly. Too many tabs open.
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Actually, in this case, my slowposting was due to a deviation from my normal cellar reading style. In this case, I simply knew the answer, having experienced the phenomenon PZ described, and quickly posted my answer. "Slow poster" is a poor description of the actual post effect. "opening my mouth before reading what was already discusssed" would be much more correct. I could have deleted my post, but I very rarely do that.
As for how I normally read the cellar, I'm pressing the "new posts" link frequently. I then read from the oldest to the newest, refreshing as I go. When I see a thread I'm following with particular interest come up toward the top with a fresh post, I will sometimes read that one, bumping it out of my oldest to newest general consumption.
I do sometimes open a thread in a new tab if I am working on a long or detailed post. This particular computer and the trackpad has given me extreme grief a couple times by taking an incidental brush on the trackpad as a navigation gesture and removing my textual input to that point like a popped soap bubble. Then, I curse. Then, I restart with my text going into a separate editor, to be composed and then copied to the quick reply box.
welll... plenty of detail there. The point is that I usually try to read *as much as possible* before replying, but in this case, I just shot from the lip.