bottom-post meaning (dated): definition, etymology and quotations

bottom-post

noun

Etymology From bottom + post.

Internet, Dated A post on an online forum whose contents are placed below a quoted message which is being replied to.

If you don't like to read bottom posts - don't. No one is going to change so let it be.2001 October 4, Don D., “SkriptKiddie Trying something”, in rec.travel.cruises (Usenet):

verb

Etymology From bottom + post.

Internet, Dated To make a bottom-post.

The proper netiquette on this list is to "bottom post," which means that you reply to a previous poster's comments after the original comment.2004, Rickford Grant, Linux for Non-Geeks, San Francisco, C.A.: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 294:

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