What's the official policy regarding Double Posting?

[Treble]

Is it occasionally tolerated, or will it face immediate action from mods? I assume it's banned, but how strict are the rules about it?

I was wondering if I could resurrect a week old thread where I was the last to reply.

 

[LurkingInTheDeceit]

Disclaimer: Not a mod.

It's not in the rules as far as I can see, but I have seen mods warn people for doing it, with further action probable for repeat offenders. It depends on the thread, but I'm pretty sure the motivation behind discouraging it is spam prevention, with a secondary focus on how it can disrupt discussions.

Leaving a day between posts is a safe bet to avoid becoming spam, and you can probably do that in perpetuity (providing you stay on topic) in anything but a story thread (image threads have many examples of this). Story threads can maybe tolerate double posting with sufficient gap and/or contribution (see the necro rule for what counts as a significant contribution), but triple posting is probably inadvisable if you're not the author.

The problem with double posting in fast moving threads (of any type) is it disrupts the conversation; making it harder to reply to whatever you're saying as a whole while taking up more than your fair share of forum space. Just wait for someone else to post in those.

To answer your specific case: If it's not a story thread and it's on-topic, you should be fine. If it is a story thread, treat it like a necro and only post if it's a significant contribution.

 

[Biigoh]

As long as it's not a deliberate multiple double or however many post or at once, it's fine. If it's deliberate or there is numerous all at once, that's held as spam and you may get a warning.

It's generally held that IF you must add more stuff to a post, you can edit your previous post. Assuming that no one else has posted, or that it hasn't been an hour since your last post.

If someone else has posted, or it's been an hour or a day after your last post? That's generally held as not really a double post if you post with substantive content ie not clearly spamming short posts just to get a post count up or keep the thread 'in view'.