OK, Y'all, Do we still use "NT" or don't we?

[raccoon]

I’m still using it and some other people are, but not everybody.

I can go either way, but I don’t see why I should have to use two extra key strokes if a bunch of other people are doing it. 😂

[Hugin]

1. Yep. n/t

[highplainsdem]

2. I never use it.

[dchill]

3. Nope. n/t

[femmedem]

4. I use it as a courtesy to folks who might otherwise waste time clicking on my reply. n/t

[EarlG]

5. I never really saw the need to use (nt)... until

it was pointed out to me that it's a polite thing to do for people who use My Posts a lot.

When you check the My Posts page you can see the subject lines of replies to you. It can be mildly annoying to click on one of those subject lines and then find that the person who replied added no additional text.

But if they put (nt) in the title, you know you don't need to click through...

[Demsrule86]

7. That is a good reason to use it then. Thanks!

[Hekate]

8. I don't even know what that is, but I've been doing it since early DU & dial-up modems...

Because that’s what I started out with. I couldn’t load some of our epically long threads at all, and had to click each post. So I appreciated the courtesy of the (nt) and have done likewise.

[highplainsdem]

17. I first got online in the mid-1980s, have participated in lots of forums, and

never saw nt used much till I joined DU.

[highplainsdem]

15. I automatically click on all of those anyway in case I might want to

reply.

And if I posted the OP, or it's a thread started by someone else that I'm particularly interested in, I'll click on the OP again and just skim down to catch all the replies and subthreads quickly.

[Demsrule86]

6. NT was already a thing when I arrived and I had to google it to find out what it was about.

I thought it was used because of the old slow internet which took a long time to load and all...that is not the case now. Thus I don't use but if Duer's think I should, I certainly will...no big deal either way for me.

[Takket]

9. What is nt? (nt)

[highplainsdem]

11. No text beyond the subject line.

[Liberal In Texas]

10. Yes. always have always will. n/t

[tblue37]

12. A lot of people weirdly put "nt" in the message box rather than the subject line. I

assume they don't know what it's for.

[Elessar Zappa]

13. I don't use it.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. I Try To

I'm sure I've flubbed now & then, forgetting to use it.
But, mostly I use it for the reason EarlG stated above.
As a regular "My Posts" user (I like to reply when I get replied to, as a courtesy to the person replying. If there's an "nt" there, they likely aren't expecting a reply.)

[demmiblue]

16. I usually do. n/t

[UTUSN]

18. Not much anymore, & more often than not when used, used wrong:

Unless I'm wrong, it was supposed to be in the Subject line, supposedly to alert the readers there was nothing in the body of the post. I say "supposedly" because once you're in the thread the whole post is visible. The only useful part would be for somebody looking only at the list of Subjects, clicking on selected individual Subject titles, with the "n/t" signaling nothing to waste a click for nothing more in the post.

A use defeating the purpose is to put the "n/t" in the BODY of the message, since that location is too late to save on clicking.

As for saving strokes in the Subject line, yeah more often than not all the space is needed for the Subject.


**** Since we're in Meta territory, here's something: We have some esteemed members who specialize in their own opinionating, different from links to reportage/journalism. Sometimes the OPINION o.p. is misleading, something like, "GARLAND is waiting for the Committee's report." If we don't know it is from one of the known opinion members, it sounds like it's a NEWS item with a link inside to the journalism outlet. But click on it, and it turns out to be a member *speculating" about what he/she thinks might happen. It would help to start the Subject title with "OPINION".

[captain queeg]

19. That is something I learned a few years ago when I posted as a new- be asking for advice.

I don’t use it often myself, but I think it wouldn’t hurt to occasionally post some of the informal rules and shorthand used here. I got a lot of sarcastic answers, not mean but sort of joking. You tend to figure things out over time but I think it would be a helpful service.