08-01-2005, 05:00 AM
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Quoting in the Forums: A Safety Guide
It's rare that I have to do something like this, but I need to get a message out to all Pocket PC Thoughts members participating in our forums: when quoting a message, please trim the message down to only include the most essential part. I just wasted 10 minutes cleaning up this thread where almost everyone was quoting long messages and adding a one-line response, or double-quoting (where two full messages are quoted) and adding their long response after it. Long responses are great - I love seeing people express themselves, but having to scrolling through an entire message you just read (or two) to get to the response leaves a bitter taste. :?
This isn't about me being a Type A personality, it's about having a positive signal to noise ratio in our forums. Quoting a massive message and adding a one-line response is something I'd expect from someone in an AOL help forum, not the intelligent and witty community we have here at Pocket PC Thoughts. It's also important for people reading on a mobile device to have a fast and lean thread to browse though - it's painful to be reading on a Smartphone and have to scroll through 100 lines of quoted text that you've already read, only to see someone quoted all that and added "Me too!" at the end. :lol: Please be courteous to your fellow forum members and quote responsibly. ;-)
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08-01-2005, 06:36 AM
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You have no idea how much will power it took to not quote that entire thing and add...
Hear, Hear! 
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08-01-2005, 06:49 AM
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My favorite was the one that hit nine levels of quotes in one post. :lol:
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08-01-2005, 07:03 AM
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Re: Quoting in the Forums: A Safety Guide
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
It's rare that I have to do something like this, but I need to get a message out to all Pocket PC Thoughts members participating in our forums: when quoting a message, please trim the message down to only include the most essential part. I just wasted 10 minutes cleaning up this thread where almost everyone was quoting long messages and adding a one-line response, or double-quoting (where two full messages are quoted) and adding their long response after it. Long responses are great - I love seeing people express themselves, but having to scrolling through an entire message you just read (or two) to get to the response leaves a bitter taste. :?
This isn't about me being a Type A personality, it's about having a positive signal to noise ratio in our forums. Quoting a massive message and adding a one-line response is something I'd expect from someone in an AOL help forum, not the intelligent and witty community we have here at Pocket PC Thoughts. It's also important for people reading on a mobile device to have a fast and lean thread to browse though - it's painful to be reading on a Smartphone and have to scroll through 100 lines of quoted text that you've already read, only to see someone quoted all that and added "Me too!" at the end. :lol: Please be courteous to your fellow forum members and quote responsibly. ;-) |
I agree! (sorry, it was just a matter of time before someone did this!) :devilboy:
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08-01-2005, 07:14 AM
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Ditto
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08-01-2005, 07:51 AM
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Re: Quoting in the Forums: A Safety Guide
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Originally Posted by Horus
I agree! (sorry, it was just a matter of time before someone did this!) :devilboy:
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Enjoying it, HuH!! :wink:
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08-01-2005, 07:51 AM
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Intellectual
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Ok Jason. When I quote something I will only quote the part im commenting on.
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08-01-2005, 10:50 AM
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Thinker
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another issue that i would see is that some would make replies TOTALLY irrelevant to the original post... so, basically, what happens is that the LAST post has nothing to do with the original post
or, maybe im just being ANAL???
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08-01-2005, 11:18 AM
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Executive Editor, Android Thoughts
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Re: Quoting in the Forums: A Safety Guide
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It's rare that I have to do something like this, .... ;-)
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I agree! (sorry, it was just a matter of time before someone did this!) :devilboy: |
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Ditto
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08-01-2005, 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by ipaq_wannabe
another issue that i would see is that some would make replies TOTALLY irrelevant to the original post... so, basically, what happens is that the LAST post has nothing to do with the original post
or, maybe im just being ANAL???
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Yes, very.
Anyways, is anyone else having a serious deja vu moment? I recall Dunn posting the exact same thing about a year and a half ago as well... :?:
And I totally agree with him for a change - it's very, very annoying, especially if you're browsing on a PPC or similar. Pages take forever and ten minutes to load, and then I have to spend eternity scrolling down past the five levels of quotes to find a one-line reply... :roll:
It's particularly bad here as well. I visit a ton of other forums, and you rarely see excessive quoting there... very odd.
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