As we are talking about behaviour on gn,

Do agree kitty, very frustrating. It's happened to me a few times and when I was a newbie it could make me feel a bit paranoid - you know, "oh, they're deliberately overlooking my earlier comment - what have I done to upset them?" I've 'grown a pair' since then

read the thread before posting.
wot - all of it?

ps I only read the OP before I posted that!
The thing is if I want to reply I have to reply on each page if I'm cutting and pasting, so end up with a string of posts which looks as if I'm saying "and another thing"
"and another thing"
"and another thing"
(cut and pasted there, did you notice?)

jalima I haven't got a clue what that post is all about. I think my brain's gone funny.

I don't understand it either!

Why to have to reply on every page, and why do you have to cut and paste...?

do you, not to

No, I think it's my brain
I need a

What I was trying to say was that if the thread is long and you read all of it before replying then you (well me anyway) may have forgotten half the posts before getting to the last page and posting an opinion and therefore could repeat the same view as someone else.

So replying post by post on each page means that if you (I) reply to more than one post each on separate pages you (I) end up with a string of posts at the end if the thread is long
? Me too

Anyway, how can you reply on pages that are already full? It's not possible, is it?

Perhaps I am not GN computer savvy

Oh sorry, X posts

If I go to page one of a long thread which I haven't read before and see a post I want to reply to, the 'add your message here' box is at the bottom of page 1. I type the reply to that because if I go through and read something else on a different page I want to reply to, my first typed reply has disappeared.

How does anyone else do it?

Unless they're on here all day, but there is a world out there
sorry

I think I get you now Jalima - you're reading posts on page 1 and there is the "Add your message here" box at the bottom, so you post your reply. Then onto the next page and you do the same, and so on.
But the "Add your message here" box can't put your post on the page you're on, because that page is already full.
It's not that your post 'disappears', it's just added at the end. The reason other people's replies are on the relevant page is because they reply while that page is still the current page. Does that make sense?

Yes, I understand why, but don't know how to get round it, I noticed I had typed about four or five posts in a row on one thread, people must think 'oh, bored now'.

I suppose I could cut and paste each time and add it all at the end.

Thank you, it's OK, I am going to lie down in a darkened room now

So why not read the rest of the thread before you start your reply? Or why not highlight and copy the half reply that you have already written, then after you have read the rest, paste that bit into the reply box and finish what you want to say?

All your partial replies will end up together in the same place anyway, in a row after all previous posts. They don't go on the page you are looking at when you answer.

D'you mean you copy the replies you've written to each page and then paste them all in one long post at the end?

Oh, several crossed posts!

Darkened room sounds tempting...

Yes, I will cut and paste as I go Elegran
So why not read the rest of the thread before you start your reply
because if it's a long thread I'd have to go back to that page to reply otherwise I can't remember exactly what someone said, and if there is more than one .....
and they did end up in a row, which looked daft
oh heck give in now.

kitty I will try to read the whole thread but can't promise to remember it!

Oh. I understand now. But that is a very odd way of doing things.

Try not having pages. Have just one long thread. I hate pages. Can't cope with them.I Get lost too easily.

1. Write your reply on page 1, but don't post it.
2. Cut and paste it onto page 2, and add your responses from that page, but don't post it.
3. Cut and paste the new, longer reply onto the next page, and add any responses you may have to posts on that page, but don't post it.

Repeat step 3. until the the last page then post. Bingo! All in one post!

If it's a long thread, just read three or four posts back. That's what I do.

And I have latest post at top of thread. Anyone else?

That would be too complicated for me.

(Indinana's way)

Jalima you've made me giggle.

But I can see it would work. Cba-ness would cut in though.