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Lacero's Pet Peeves Part 1 of 25: Any way to make posted stories unquotable

Lacero

Lacero

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This will be a 25-part series on forum pet peeves.


Is this a new trend or have my panties been on too tight lately?
annoying. yeah, you know it.

[post]1809510[/post] -prime example
[post]1535195[/post]
[post]2063651[/post] -moderated, thank god
[post]2056831[/post] -same

[post]2066215[/post]
[post]2065844[/post]
[post]2065079[/post]
[post]2063784[/post]
[post]2060129[/post]
[post]2024195[/post]
[post]2050461[/post] ugh

... perhaps unquotable for the first 25 replies or so. No one needs to be hit on the head with the thread subject of discussion each and every time.

Pet Peeves Part 2 of 25 coming soon.
Here's to the Crazy Ones ​
 
Edit: Removed quoting of Lacero so Lacero doesn't kill me.


Yeah. Why can't people just hit "Post Reply". I'm sure there's a way. Maybe just remove the quote button for the first post? Something like that.
 
G5Unit said:
When people do that they are just trying to make their posts seem longer.
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Maybe. But I think it's ignorance too. The quote button is there with a post and the post reply button is further down and on the other side of the screen. Maybe if post reply was under the quote button...
 
iSaint said:
I like quotes so you know who's being replied to and on what topic. Especially since these forums tend to fall away from topic so quickly.
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Quoting a user isn't bad. It's quoting a whole news story that is the "pet peeve".
 
I think quoting is ok as long as the person using the quote corrects something in the previous statement, adds something to the previous statement, or uses the previous statement to emphasize a point. Needless quoting just gets annoying, and helps people pad their post count.

For Example User A posts: It was totally awesome

User B quotes User A: I agree.
 
iSaint said:
I like quotes so you know who's being replied to and on what topic.
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Yes, but then reduce the quote to exactly what you're answering to, like I just did right now (;)). Don't quote the whole post. That's just as bad as not quoting it at all...

And you don't necessarily have to quote the post directly over yours, if you see that no posts have been added there's always the option to edit your post to remove/shorten the quote, right...?
 
Lacero said:
This will be a 25-part series on forum pet peeves.


Is this a new trend or have my panties been on too tight lately?
annoying. yeah, you know it.

[post]1809510[/post] -prime example
[post]1535195[/post]
[post]2063651[/post] -moderated, thank god
[post]2056831[/post] -same

[post]2066215[/post]
[post]2065844[/post]
[post]2065079[/post]
[post]2063784[/post]
[post]2060129[/post]
[post]2024195[/post]
[post]2050461[/post] ugh

... perhaps unquotable for the first 25 replies or so. No one needs to be hit on the head with the thread subject of discussion each and every time.

Pet Peeves Part 2 of 25 coming soon.
Here's to the Crazy Ones ​
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What kind of panties are they?
 
mpw said:
G5Unit said:
When people do that they are just trying to make their posts seem longer.
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No
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You sure?

rdowns said:
Lacero said:
This will be a 25-part series on forum pet peeves.


Is this a new trend or have my panties been on too tight lately?
annoying. yeah, you know it.

[post]1809510[/post] -prime example
[post]1535195[/post]
[post]2063651[/post] -moderated, thank god
[post]2056831[/post] -same

[post]2066215[/post]
[post]2065844[/post]
[post]2065079[/post]
[post]2063784[/post]
[post]2060129[/post]
[post]2024195[/post]
[post]2050461[/post] ugh

... perhaps unquotable for the first 25 replies or so. No one needs to be hit on the head with the thread subject of discussion each and every time.

Pet Peeves Part 2 of 25 coming soon.
Here's to the Crazy Ones ​
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What kind of panties are they?
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Hard to tell.


(Happy that quoting like this doesn't happen automatically)
 
G5Unit said:
When people do that they are just trying to make their posts seem longer.
mpw said:
No
dubbz said:
You sure?
SilentPanda said:
Maybe. But I think it's ignorance too. The quote button is there with a post and the post reply button is further down and on the other side of the screen. Maybe if post reply was under the quote button...
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This is debatable it seems...



Lacero said:
This will be a 25-part series on forum pet peeves.


Is this a new trend or have my panties been on too tight lately?
annoying. yeah, you know it.

[post]1809510[/post] -prime example
[post]1535195[/post]
[post]2063651[/post] -moderated, thank god
[post]2056831[/post] -same

[post]2066215[/post]
[post]2065844[/post]
[post]2065079[/post]
[post]2063784[/post]
[post]2060129[/post]
[post]2024195[/post]
[post]2050461[/post] ugh

... perhaps unquotable for the first 25 replies or so. No one needs to be hit on the head with the thread subject of discussion each and every time.

Pet Peeves Part 2 of 25 coming soon.
Here's to the Crazy Ones ​

rdowns said:
What kind of panties are they?

clayj said:
Yeah, I was wondering that, too. (Hey, the subject was raised.)
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I third that question.


dubbz said:
(Happy that quoting like this doesn't happen automatically)
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I could write a script ;)
 
If you guys aren't careful, you're going to wasteland Lacero's thread. ;)

Anyway, I think removing the quote button might be cool, but it also could have some negative ramifications for when people are trying to genuinely quote a particular part of the first story. I don't know, it annoys me as well, but I don't know what a good alternative would be. I'd say put it in the FAQ, but nobody seems to read those anyway.
 
solvs said:
Anyway, I think removing the quote button might be cool, but it also could have some negative ramifications for when people are trying to genuinely quote a particular part of the first story.
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Well, you could always manually select the text you want to quote. Sure it's more work, but it's worth it. It's quite annoying to see the entire story quoted.

Lacero said:
Pet Peeves Part 2 of 25 coming soon.
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Can't wait.
 
the answer is rather simple. if you see someone doing it report it and we will edit it out. also if you see people doing small spam posts to pad post counts, report that too, we routinely delete those, but you guys need to let us know about them.
 
Lacero, you are too funny. But you do bring up a good point. It is common to see and I just took it as how things were. Never did it cross my mind that things could change. You are a prophet (of sorts).
 
I can't say I look forward to the next installments of this thread.

I guess I simply don't care that much about the quote feature.
 
aquajet said:
Well, you could always manually select the text you want to quote.
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Well, I could. And I do. But not everyone does, especially newbies. If the mods can take care of it, hate to give them any more work to do, but I guess that's what they're there for.

I don't know if this is on your list too Lacero, but I've also seen a lot more "first post"s lately, where that will be all they say, except for maybe also quoting the entire article. I'm sure the mods can edit that stuff out too, but that should be an obvious no-no here. I'm surprised any forum tolerates that type of thing anymore.
 
It sounds as though most are in agreement here, in that quoting the complete OP is a nuisance. I routinely edit out all the irrelevant stuff if I'm quoting someone, hopefully leaving just a small but useful snippet for people to follow the discussion.
Besides the 'readability' issue, is there a bandwidth or server-space issue for MacRumors if all the threads are much longer due to overuse of quotes?
 
stevep said:
Besides the 'readability' issue, is there a bandwidth or server-space issue for MacRumors if all the threads are much longer due to overuse of quotes?
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Yes. Unfortunately every time someone improperly quotes, does a "first post!", or anything else generally annoying Arn is forced to feed another cute and cuddly kitten (or puppy as the situation warrants) to the trolls who run the servers.
 
It's also a waste of bits when people quote posts with large images, or when they quote me after one of my ridiculous statistical charts!

We clean these posts up when we hear about them.

It's just part of our team effort for 2006: to get the number of annoyances down to a comfortable 19 or 20. ;)
 
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