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Quoting entire messages
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:07 am
by ArndW
Would it make sense to add a popup-window when people do a reply-quote to a message stating something like
There is no need to quote entire messages, use of this function should be limited to editing the quoted text and removing excess words. A quote should only be used to highlight parts of a message. Unlike older systems, this site shows all messages in a thread so there is no need to copy entire posts in replies.
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:54 am
by DSguru2B
I think this was necessary. Its been happening a lot in the recent past.
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:56 am
by ArndW
DSguru2B wrote:I think this was necessary. Its been happening a lot in the recent past.
I agree :D. C'mon I double-dare you to quote my message with your quote
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:03 am
by DSguru2B
ArndW wrote:
I agree :D.
Yes Arnd you were saying something
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:16 pm
by ray.wurlod
ArndW wrote:DSguru2B wrote:I think this was necessary. Its been happening a lot in the recent past.
I agree :D. C'mon I double-dare you to quote my message with your quote
It truly isn't necessary. Of course, were you a disk space vendor, you'd probably make over-quoting mandatory. But it's frowned upon in every technical forum in which I participate.
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 5:57 am
by roy
I guess quoting started with the 1 time posters that later edited their original post making no scense of the replies they got.
Never the less I also agree there is no need to quote more then is needed for the answer.
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 6:33 am
by chulett
It's also a mechanism for a Premium user to expose Premium content to the world - intentionally or not.