Originally Posted by
fairviewroad
However, posters can reply to multiple messages in the same post, so I'm not sure why people feel the need to post twice in a row in the same thread. (OK, I'm sure I've been guilty of that at some point....

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Not everyone knows how to multi-quote. A lot of folks don't understand the edit button either.
And sometimes I'll reply to one post and then go back and read more of the posts and realize that there is another post I want to reply to.