# `board/lines` Source: [`src/board/lines.ts`](https://github.com/AI-for-dev/combo/blob/main/src/board/lines.ts) The board as a member reads it: one line per post, and what answers the reader first. Apart from `board.ts`, which is the medium and says nothing about how it is shown. Every place that hands a member posts goes through here - the swarm's handout, the tool's `read`, `/swarm`'s summary - so a post reads the same wherever a member meets it. ## `boardLines` *function* ```typescript export function boardLines(posts: readonly Post[], reader?: string): string { /* … */ } ``` Posts as a member reads them: who, to whom, answering what, what kind, what it said. Given the `reader`, what answers its own posts comes first, under a line that says so. A debater handed ten posts reads the first few, and the ones that are its business are the ones that answer it.