Quotes are getting out of hand!

[glacierbaze]

Seems like more and more people feel the need to quote a previous post in order to reply, which I perfectly understand if the conversation has gotten off track, dis-jointed, or there has been a significant time lapse to the particular point to which you are responding.
BUT, I will never understand the need to quote the original post when you are the first respondent. Is there any doubt in anyone's mind what you are referring to? Or to have a back and forth where 2 guys repeatedly re-quote each other in order to reply.
If you are talking to someone, do you repeat the other before you reply. It sometimes makes it hard to figure out who is posting, and who is being quoted.
Rant over!
Now let's see who's going to be the first to quote this.

 

[Bloodweiser]

Seems like more and more people feel the need to quote a previous post in order to reply, which I perfectly understand if the conversation has gotten off track, dis-jointed, or there has been a significant time lapse to the particular point to which you are responding.
BUT, I will never understand the need to quote the original post when you are the first respondent. Is there any doubt in anyone's mind what you are referring to? Or to have a back and forth where 2 guys repeatedly re-quote each other in order to reply.
If you are talking to someone, do you repeat the other before you reply. It sometimes makes it hard to figure out who is posting, and who is being quoted.
Rant over!
Now let's see who's going to be the first to quote this.

Lmao. I understand you

 

[mr_mbuna]

Lmao. I understand you

Who?

Kidding aside - the forum quotes by default when you click "reply" on a post.

 

[glacierbaze]

Maybe that's the problem, people replying to individual posts, rather than to the conversation. Post at the bottom of any page in the thread, and your post falls right in line.

 

[seasick]

Some threads wander all over the place regarding the topic. This is often referred to as hijacking. If I am responding to a specific comment in a thread where several others have opined )) about somewhat related issues and often totally unrelated ones,, I reply with the comment I am referring to. Often, I will edit a long response by a member to just leave out the unrelated parts. Of course, this editing could be construed as 'selective' editing', a common tool used in politics

 

[Pighunter]

Some threads wander all over the place regarding the topic. This is often referred to as hijacking. If I am responding to a specific comment in a thread where several others have opined )) about somewhat related issues and often totally unrelated ones,, I reply with the comment I am referring to. Often, I will edit a long response by a member to just leave out the unrelated parts. Of course, this editing could be construed as 'selective' editing', a common tool used in politics

Your doing it the way it was intended, I think!

 

[blindmullet]

I remember my first day on the WWW.

 

[glacierbaze]

Yeah, I remember the day one of my kids caught me writing down urls, and retyping them into the browser. "DAD, you don't know how to copy and paste?"