>>>>Just find it weirdly annoying to scroll down three pages of post to find LOL <s>
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>>>I don't. Scroll, I mean. If someone won't bother to trim, I won't bother to read.
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>>I used to always trim messages on CompuServe. Generally just my post and the message it was replying to. Most everyone did it that way. When I first started visiting the UT it was jarring to see messages which included every prior post in the thread since Jesus was in third grade. After a while, though, I began to see the wisdom of it. The UT's message navigation features are far inferior to CompuServe's (at least if you used OzWin, TapCIS, or one of the other autonavigators) so it does help to include prior posts in a new reply.
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>>I really do wish people would preserve the chronology of threads. Oldest to newest or newest to oldest, that doesn't matter to me. Just don't make me play detective to figure out what post each reply responded to.
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>You do realise that's pretty much impossible. Especially when you consider thread drift on top of the fact that you want to reply to a particular message and it would make little, if any, sense to reply to the last one just because it's the last one.
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>I can't imagine a mechanism by which you could preserve chronology and still have the thread make sense.

What's so hard about it? If you are responding to a post other than the most recent, chop out all the later ones. It isn't the job of each poster to provide an official transcript of the whole thread, just to provide context for the reply.