Do you appreciate "Signposting" or would you rather a personal response

personally I find signposting a bit of a cop out in that it loses the personal qualities of a reply. If a question is asked I try to relate to that and answer in my honest way. I will sometimes try to signpost at the end of a reply if I think it is of benefit.

This is not a criticism of others but I do find that there seems to be a constant screed of signposting in most replies in the threads. It is almost as if all human discourse has been replaced by the race to see who can signpost first. This forum is supposed to be a discussion board but sometimes can resemble a website help page.

Keep up the conversations rather than the signposts. 

personally I find signposting a bit of a cop out in that it loses the personal qualities of a reply. If a question is asked I try to relate to that and answer in my honest way. I will sometimes try to signpost at the end of a reply if I think it is of benefit.

This is not a criticism of others but I do find that there seems to be a constant screed of signposting in most replies in the threads. It is almost as if all human discourse has been replaced by the race to see who can signpost first. This forum is supposed to be a discussion board but sometimes can resemble a website help page.

Keep up the conversations rather than the signposts. 

That's also how I feel, but I notice there appear to be rather a lot of it on here. 

Being autistic I'm very used to being the only one who feels or acts a certain way, so didn't want to assume that others also felt that way.

Thanks for sharing