Stop using huge quote blocks for 1 sentence replies!

Banned 14 years ago

Yeah .. I agree. Perhaps they just don't know any better, but if you want to quote someone, no need to quote the entire block of text ... Delete the parts that aren't relevant to your comment.

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Bill Farnham

14 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Yeah .. I agree. Perhaps they just don't know any better, but if you want to quote someone, quote the entire block of text ... the parts that aren't relevant to your comment.

Ditto.

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sbucciarel

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Bill Farnham

Ditto.

~Bill

lol .... at least most of my posts aren't 1,000 word essays so go ahead and quote me.

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GuerrillaIM

14 years ago

Originally Posted by tman563

Ok this is a bit of a rant/frustration, but its really annoying, and completely unnecessary.

When someone writes a very long post, stop quoting the entire post in your reply, and following with just a single sentence of your own input.

We all know what your response is responding too, there is no point in blockquoting 500 words.

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Yeah .. I agree. Perhaps they just don't know any better, but if you want to quote someone, no need to quote the entire block of text ... Delete the parts that aren't relevant to your comment.

Originally Posted by Bill Farnham

Ditto.

~Bill

Originally Posted by youngprepro

Yeah! Maybe I've got to be observing that now

Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert

There are extremes either way.

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

lol .... at least most of my posts aren't 1,000 word essays so go ahead and quote me.

I agree, good post!

*ducks for cover*

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Dan C. Rinnert 14 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

I agree ... if you want to quote someone, ... quote the entire block of text .

There are extremes either way.
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CDarklock

14 years ago

Originally Posted by tman563

When someone writes a very long post, stop quoting the entire post in your reply, and following with just a single sentence of your own input.

Some members bitch about that. ExRat, for example, is notorious for making massive epic posts and then complaining that you've taken his comments out of context when you quote him.

But that's the thing about forums. When you quote someone, there's a little grey arrow next to their name. If you click that arrow, it takes you back to the post that was quoted, so you can get the full context. I don't need to put the quote in context HERE, because it's already in context THERE.

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sbucciarel

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

But that's the thing about forums. When you quote someone, there's a little grey arrow next to their name. If you click that arrow, it takes you back to the post that was quoted, so you can get the full context.

Dag Caliban. I never knew what that arrow was for and just completely ignored it. Pretty cool. Will have to remember that the next time I'm accused of taking something out of context.

Now ... on with the show. I knew this thread would bring out the comedians.

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Dan C. Rinnert

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Abraham Lincoln

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

What about quoting people who aren't actually on the forum?

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JEL0221

14 years ago

Originally Posted by tman563

Ok this is a bit of a rant/frustration, but its really annoying, and completely unnecessary.

When someone writes a very long post, stop quoting the entire post in your reply, and following with just a single sentence of your own input.

We all know what your response is responding too, there is no point in blockquoting 500 words.

I agree.

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Tsnyder

14 years ago

Is it a problem if I'm just quoting myself?

Is it a problem if I'm just quoting myself?

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sbucciarel Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Tsnyder

Is it a problem if I'm just quoting myself?

Tsnyder

Probably Not

Probably Not
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Colin Theriot

14 years ago

Obviously, anyone who reads what I write knows I am a infinitesimal smidgen on the verbose side.

But if someone writes a long, deeply considered post, I tend to quote the whole thing, but chop it up into bits with point by point replies interspersed. I feel like it's the clearest way to go about it, as far as having an actual discussion where people talk about what each other are talking about as well as saying their own piece.

Even then, the clarity gets confused, and some people refuse to acknowledge when you quote them back at themselves, but oh well.

To the OP's point, even when I get all epic, I tend to cut out what I don't need to respond to.

Also, I feel like it's good etiquette to put all my replies into one post instead of replying one by one. They can get long that way too, but I saw a thread where, no lie, dude came into a 3 page thread and started responding individually to posts on the first page. He got like 10 or 12 deep before I just quit reading the thread.

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14 years ago

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ExRat

14 years ago

Hi CDarklock,

Some members bitch about that. ExRat, for example, is notorious for making massive epic posts and then complaining that you've taken his comments out of context when you quote him.

If I could be bothered I'd find those discussions and show that on occasions you literally left the start of the sentence off in the quoted text, which coincidentally changed the entire meaning of what I had said into something more suitable for you to make your point

I'm sure there are also examples where you have quoted me sufficiently and I haven't called foul on a change of context. I think my alleged 'notoriety' is based on 2 or 3 specific occasions at most, only relating to yourself - and I could make the counter-claim that you're notorious for selectively quoting in order to alter the context

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thebrewer

14 years ago

Grrr... so frustrating when someone gets a witty post in first (GuerrillaIM)... Maybe next time.

"Quote message in reply?" erm, not on this occasion.

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Lloyd Buchinski

14 years ago

It is a pain in the neck, especially for users on dial up. One of them in this thread and I was on it for years myself.

One forum that I'm in often, people often post photos. Time after time someone will quote the photo, or a whole string of photos, and their whole post will be something like 'I like that.'

One dial up user asked people to stop quoting photos and he got shouted down. A few people did agree with him. He didn't want to turn off images in his browser because he did want to see the photos. He just didn't want to download them repeatedly.

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