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DandelionPowderman
But the problems we have now aren't related to quoting pics or long quoting trees?
If I quote two short posts (i.e. a poster who post one line + another poster who responded with one word), my quote will make it look like one of the posters I quoted said something he/she didn't.
That was not the case earlier.
But, fine, I will edit every post by going into the text and remove stuff, so everybody can see who said what.
It's not 100 percent certain that everybody knows how to do that, though...
Posted by: Hairball
Date: December 16, 2016 10:01
It can be a tedious and time consuming process.
This new format prevents a natural flowing 'conversation', and more than likely deters some people from even using the quoting system now.
As for the 'quote trees' from the past, at least you could see who was posting what, and it had a conversational flow.
DandelionPowderman
It will be like this, if I do. Don't know if that's any better?
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DandelionPowderman
But the problems we have now aren't related to quoting pics or long quoting trees?
If I quote two short posts (i.e. a poster who post one line + another poster who responded with one word), my quote will make it look like one of the posters I quoted said something he/she didn't.
That was not the case earlier.
But, fine, I will edit every post by going into the text and remove stuff, so everybody can see who said what.
It's not 100 percent certain that everybody knows how to do that, though...
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Hairball
It can be a tedious and time consuming process.
This new format prevents a natural flowing 'conversation', and more than likely deters some people from even using the quoting system now.
As for the 'quote trees' from the past, at least you could see who was posting what, and it had a conversational flow.
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DandelionPowderman
It will be like this, if I do. Don't know if that's any better?
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CaptainCorella
THE QUOTE FUNCTION CAN TAKE SINGLE POSTS AS USUAL. HOWEVER, IT SEEMS THAT IT CAN'T HANDLE ADEQUATELY POSTS THAT FIGURE IN A "TREE OF POSTS". BECAUSE THEN ALL THE POSTS IN THE "TREE" ARE ALLOTTED TO THE POSTER WITH THE LATEST POST.
If you look over in the 'Talk about Talk' forum, which I would argue is the right place to report & discuss this, you'll see that I posted about this about 48 hours before anyone else did.
Despite my severe great age I can spot technical problems, and that's good.
When BV returns from his mountain perhaps he can shift this thread to the right place?
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DandelionPowderman
There is no forum on IORR called «Talk about talk»?
This is definitely the right forum to discuss this, I'd say, although the correct way to address this might be to send Bjørnulf an email.
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Palace Revolution 2000
I don't want to start quoting posts - but what is "Talk About Talk" forum?
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Stoneage
I don't get BV:s non-answer here. Why is it important to impair the usability of the forum?
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Socrates1
It's funny, I don't really like the quoting features on most message boards. Multiple-quote blocks create clutter, especially when several posts are being quoted at the same time. I'm actually less likely to wade through it all, and read entire conversations, if the whole thread is 10 pages of repeated quote-bricks, filled with endless pics and inanities.
I would rather do things the way they are right now: edit each of my posts, before I click: "Post message," and not leave this virtual world full of clutter because I don't have time to make everything look right. I certainly find the time to be here and post. Even if you're posting from a phone, you could take the extra few moments it would require and add bold type to separate specific authors in multiple quotes. We ought to be cleaning up after ourselves here and not just clicking post, post,post to satisfy our own desires in-the-moment.
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EddieByword
To be honest, I don't see those massive quote trees happening very often and when they do, sometimes, they can be entertaining in their obvious silliness.........ie,. Monty pythonesque ..
They'll all sink down to the bottom of the cyber dustbin /trash can eventually anyway.....
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Stoneage
I don't get BV:s non-answer here. Why is it important to impair the usability of the forum?
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bv
QUOTING ON IORR:
Every person who post is responsible of how their post looks like. If the message is drowning in quoting spam then it is a bad post. It is spam and nobody will care about it. I might delete it, and it would take time for me, as moderator, to delete it. So please, do not quote pictures, do not make endless quoting trees. It is NOT good practice. It is ignorant spam.