I think nobody wins until the original author of the original post makes a response to the original response of the post response response (if anyone even remembers who the original “author” is/was).

Drops mic.

Clicks Publish.

Runs away.

I’d like to know. I’ve been busy cornering the market on posts about posts that are responses to responses to responses to a post that was a response. To a post.

I used to write about this kind of madness a lot. It even has its own “tag”.

The “response as post” phenomenon is a unique thing to Medium. Can’t have a comment section, because that would bring out “teh trolls” (Hi Gutbloom!!). So instead, EVERY RESPONSE MUST BE ITS OWN POST.

Oh well.

The Ellipses
Or, you know, every once in a while, you respond, and then await a response, which might take months, or even years, or perhaps days, or seconds, but it will come, eventually. Because it must.

It’ll be nice when we stop talking about the thing and start using the thing.

Here’s to our generation’s printing press glee. Seriously looking forward to our version of the 15- and 1600s, the period after the shock and awe of our new technology wears off a little. (I’m toasting with my tea.)

This response of a response of a response really needs to be sorted out. Because when I click one response, suddenly I’ve lost the ability to read out all the other responses without going back. And that’s just not optimal.