That's not really top posting. What I'm doing here, by putting the untrimmed quoted material I'm responding to below my response is essentially top posting (bu

That's not really top posting. What I'm doing here, by putting the untrimmed quoted material I'm responding to below my response is essentially top posting (but I'm responding to your last sentence). I can't think of a comment I've read on HN where material from the parent post was quoted in the way I'm doing now. > Top posting is also useful. It reverses the order of the stack of messages in the expectation that you've read the rest already and are more interested in the most recent. In many cases that's the correct assumption: > > * Long email threads > > * Long forum threads that people visit every few days to catch up. > > HN has an interesting mix of top posting (new comments start at the top), and voting.