As we are talking about behaviour on gn,

I don't think as some obviously do, sorry to be a tad obtuse, I will make my apologies now. Why post if you haven't been following the crux of the thread or get a feeling for others points of views.

I suppose there are different ways of looking at it but to my mind if you post without ' at least ' taking the trouble to read the last days posts on a thread you are only interested in making a statement but not interested in engaging in debate or even interested in what others think. I will clarify that by saying that I only feel that way on threads that are of a more serious nature not light hearted ones that ask how you wash your bum or pick your nose as the topic of conversation. . That's why threads on the same subject get repeated and posts mirror those already there. Now threads can be doubled up because the latter is started a few days later than the original but flipping heck when they are practically straight away it is showing the latter poster has not bothered to even check if they are being original. I know it happens and it is good when the second poster acknowledges the fact and magnanimously directs posters to the original thread.

I guess we are all different but I like to read what others have to say before posting as it's engaging with fellow posters .

Found it Indinana, it's under 'customise'!

and again .....

and after I posted it reverted to four pages

oh dear, it can't be me, it's my pc

It means I can just whizz down through all the posts, on my iPad mini, right down to the OP. And the message box.

Or flip the whole thing if I want to see the OP again.

Jingls
I can only have up to 100 messages, but thank you, just tried it and there are 78 on here already!

Indinana thank you, I will try to remember to do that

Well it's gonna be too complicated for 'er!

might just have to ask GNHQ why it doesn't work for me then.

That would be too complicated for me.
Too complicated for me too jings. Just trying to accommodate Jalima

I don't know. I've always done it this way.

jings how do you manage to get all the posts on one page? Every time I try to select 1000 posts per page, and then 'save changes', it just reverts to 100. I've tried loads of times, logged out of GN, logged back in and tried again. Nothin' doin'. It just won't bl@@dy work

Can you take a degree in Gransnetting? Or some sort of course.

And me!

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

Jalima you've made me giggle.

(Indinana's way)

That would be too complicated for me.

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

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

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!

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.

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, several crossed posts!

Darkened room sounds tempting...

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?

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.