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Title: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: st33d on June 01, 2010, 06:49:25 AM It's pretty obvious, that when you post, it's either in direct reply to the post above or it happens to be an isolated statement. It's almost insulting to read a post with the entire previous post in it as it suggests I'm too thick to impose a context on what I'm reading myself. So why the hell is post after post on this forum abusing the quote button? No other forum does this. Is this a running joke I missed out on?
You can save yourself a lot of effort by using carats to answer previous posts if you wish: ^ The number of carats equals the number of posts previous that you're replying to. It works on other message boards. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Alex May on June 01, 2010, 06:49:56 AM OK.
Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: C.A. Silbereisen on June 01, 2010, 06:51:53 AM That's... uh... interesting.
Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: ஒழுக்கின்மை on June 01, 2010, 06:52:46 AM i don't understand your grammar or english, could you clarify whether you are against or for quoting the post above your own
Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Oddball on June 01, 2010, 06:54:10 AM And I half expected this thread to just be full of people quoting the post above.
Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Nikica on June 01, 2010, 06:54:38 AM i don't understand your grammar or english, could you clarify whether you are against or for quoting the post above your own I think that he is against it.Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: ஒழுக்கின்மை on June 01, 2010, 06:55:43 AM i thought so at first too, but he then goes on about how the forum's policy is retarded, but the forum's policy is to warn people against people quoting the post directly above their own, so it'd seem that if his and this forum's policy were the same he wouldn't question why we do things this way or express surprise and say that supposedly no other forum does it this way and that way do
Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Alevice on June 01, 2010, 06:56:08 AM And I half expected this thread to just be full of people quoting the post above. Same. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: ஒழுக்கின்மை on June 01, 2010, 06:57:15 AM anyway, this is what i do:
when re-reading the quoted text is important to my answer, i quote when it isn't, i just use @[person's name]. much simpler. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Corpus on June 01, 2010, 06:59:59 AM anyway, this is what i do: when re-reading the quoted text is important to my answer, i quote when it isn't, i just use @[person's name]. much simpler. F'serial, you two. Must you always have such low expectations of the forum's users? Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Oddball on June 01, 2010, 07:02:33 AM I don't really have a policy on this as I can't say I've ever considered it a serious issue. Sometimes I quote, sometimes I don't, and sometimes I'll do the @[username] thing. Never used ^ as I've never seen that used much on the forums I frequent. Does this behaviour really offend some people?
Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: C.A. Silbereisen on June 01, 2010, 07:05:32 AM When I'm replying to a specific statement in the post above me, I quote that statement. That's it.
Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Mipe on June 01, 2010, 07:07:12 AM How about quoting whole images again and again?
Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: st33d on June 01, 2010, 07:09:10 AM I was just wondering why people did it.
I mean, if you post after someone, then you generally read that post as replying to the one above anywhere else on the internet. It's like the expectations of the reader are lower here or something. It's like the casual gaming equivalent of using a message board. Not saying it's entirely wrong. I just don't get it. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Skofo on June 01, 2010, 07:12:30 AM I was just wondering why people did it. I mean, if you post after someone, then you generally read that post as replying to the one above anywhere else on the internet. It's like the expectations of the reader are lower here or something. It's like the casual gaming equivalent of using a message board. Not saying it's entirely wrong. I just don't get it. They're just idiots; ignore them. See what I did there? Ho ho ho, I am so clever. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Rob Lach on June 01, 2010, 07:18:57 AM I was just wondering why people did it. I mean, if you post after someone, then you generally read that post as replying to the one above anywhere else on the internet. It's like the expectations of the reader are lower here or something. It's like the casual gaming equivalent of using a message board. Not saying it's entirely wrong. I just don't get it. They're just idiots; ignore them. See what I did there? Ho ho ho, I am so clever. Would nesting a string of such quotes be even worse? Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: ஒழுக்கின்மை on June 01, 2010, 07:20:45 AM no, but trying to be funny by ironically doing so would be
Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Ted Martens on June 01, 2010, 07:24:18 AM because sometimes you just have a feeling. What about quoting something that will be said in the future? Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Ted Martens on June 01, 2010, 07:24:41 AM because sometimes you just have a feeling.
Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Skofo on June 01, 2010, 07:27:28 AM Quote from: Future Skofo Half-Life 2: Episode 3 is out! Hooray! :handshakeL:;D:handshakeR: Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Pineapple on June 01, 2010, 07:29:34 AM Half-Life 2: Episode 3 is out! Hooray! :handshakeL:;D:handshakeR: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0)
Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Ted Martens on June 01, 2010, 07:41:53 AM Tu che, Future Skofo. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Pineapple on June 01, 2010, 08:06:02 AM Invalid.
:whome: Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Melly on June 01, 2010, 11:48:42 AM Guess the derail!
What will this thread inevitably derail to? Guess the derail! Or maybe it'll just die, I dunno, I got a headache. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: &/c. on June 01, 2010, 11:51:54 AM Guess the derail! What will this thread inevitably derail to? Guess the derail! Or maybe it'll just die, I dunno, I got a headache. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: laserghost on June 01, 2010, 12:18:51 PM If I'm replying to something above me in a popular thread, there's the chance more posts will be added between that post and mine- that's an instance in which I would quote like that.
But unless it's a quote of an excessively long post, why would it be annoying anyway? Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: C.A. Silbereisen on June 01, 2010, 12:23:50 PM If I'm replying to something above me in a popular thread, there's the chance more posts will be added between that post and mine- that's an instance in which I would quote like that. BECAUSE!But unless it's a quote of an excessively long post, why would it be annoying anyway? Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Melly on June 01, 2010, 02:00:05 PM If I'm replying to something above me in a popular thread, there's the chance more posts will be added between that post and mine- that's an instance in which I would quote like that. BECAUSE!But unless it's a quote of an excessively long post, why would it be annoying anyway? Is it time for the :cavestory: pyramids? Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Christian Knudsen on June 01, 2010, 02:03:52 PM :cavestory:
:cavestory::cavestory: :cavestory::cavestory::cavestory: :cavestory::cavestory::cavestory::cavestory: Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Bandages on June 01, 2010, 02:06:57 PM What about posts that have nothing to do with any posts in the thread?
I'm on to you, forum gnomes. :handshakeL: :apoplectic: Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Melly on June 01, 2010, 02:17:03 PM :cavestory:
What about posts that have nothing to do with any posts in the thread? :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory:I'm on to you, forum gnomes. :handshakeL: :apoplectic: Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Shade Jackrabbit on June 01, 2010, 02:18:28 PM :cavestory:
What about posts that have nothing to do with any posts in the thread? :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory:I'm on to you, forum gnomes. :handshakeL: :apoplectic: Well that's just silly. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Melly on June 01, 2010, 02:20:10 PM :cavestory:
What about posts that have nothing to do with any posts in the thread? :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory:I'm on to you, forum gnomes. :handshakeL: :apoplectic: Well that's just silly. Indeed. I should have made it a fractal. Silly me. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Shade Jackrabbit on June 01, 2010, 02:26:43 PM :cavestory:
What about posts that have nothing to do with any posts in the thread? :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory: :cavestory:I'm on to you, forum gnomes. :handshakeL: :apoplectic: Well that's just silly. Indeed. I should make made it a fractal. Silly me. That's a good idea. You should get started. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Ted Martens on June 01, 2010, 02:44:39 PM Tu che, Future Skofo.
Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Radnom on June 01, 2010, 02:51:06 PM It's pretty obvious, that when you post, it's either in direct reply to the post above or it happens to be an isolated statement. It's almost insulting to read a post with the entire previous post in it as it suggests I'm too thick to impose a context on what I'm reading myself. So why the hell is post after post on this forum abusing the quote button? No other forum does this. Is this a running joke I missed out on? This.You can save yourself a lot of effort by using carats to answer previous posts if you wish: ^ The number of carats equals the number of posts previous that you're replying to. It works on other message boards. I hate when people quote someone and just say "this" much more than I hate people quoting the person above them Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Christian Knudsen on June 01, 2010, 02:52:19 PM It's pretty obvious, that when you post, it's either in direct reply to the post above or it happens to be an isolated statement. It's almost insulting to read a post with the entire previous post in it as it suggests I'm too thick to impose a context on what I'm reading myself. So why the hell is post after post on this forum abusing the quote button? No other forum does this. Is this a running joke I missed out on? This.You can save yourself a lot of effort by using carats to answer previous posts if you wish: ^ The number of carats equals the number of posts previous that you're replying to. It works on other message boards. I hate when people quote someone and just say "this" much more than I hate people quoting the person above them +1 Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Bandages on June 01, 2010, 02:56:05 PM It's pretty obvious, that when you post, it's either in direct reply to the post above or it happens to be an isolated statement. It's almost insulting to read a post with the entire previous post in it as it suggests I'm too thick to impose a context on what I'm reading myself. So why the hell is post after post on this forum abusing the quote button? No other forum does this. Is this a running joke I missed out on? This.You can save yourself a lot of effort by using carats to answer previous posts if you wish: ^ The number of carats equals the number of posts previous that you're replying to. It works on other message boards. I hate when people quote someone and just say "this" much more than I hate people quoting the person above them +1 Couldn't agree more! Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Pineapple on June 01, 2010, 04:09:07 PM It's pretty obvious, that when you post, it's either in direct reply to the post above or it happens to be an isolated statement. It's almost insulting to read a post with the entire previous post in it as it suggests I'm too thick to impose a context on what I'm reading myself. So why the hell is post after post on this forum abusing the quote button? No other forum does this. Is this a running joke I missed out on? This.You can save yourself a lot of effort by using carats to answer previous posts if you wish: ^ The number of carats equals the number of posts previous that you're replying to. It works on other message boards. I hate when people quote someone and just say "this" much more than I hate people quoting the person above them +1 Couldn't agree more! This. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: laserghost on June 01, 2010, 04:59:43 PM Quote http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=12931.0 Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Ntero on June 01, 2010, 08:44:47 PM Quote http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=12931.msg388558#msg388558 Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: &/c. on June 01, 2010, 09:09:32 PM Quote http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=12931.msg388558#msg388558 Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Lon on June 01, 2010, 09:12:43 PM Self Quote. PS I personally like the future quote, also Melly's, eh, pyramid quote is impressive. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Rob Lach on June 01, 2010, 10:56:26 PM The only entity more important that the cosmos is Pierog. How about completely made up quotes? Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Μarkham on June 01, 2010, 11:19:39 PM Placing the quote beneath your response would probably be the worst.
I was just wondering why people did it. I mean, if you post after someone, then you generally read that post as replying to the one above anywhere else on the internet. It's like the expectations of the reader are lower here or something. It's like the casual gaming equivalent of using a message board. Not saying it's entirely wrong. I just don't get it. They're just idiots; ignore them. See what I did there? Ho ho ho, I am so clever. Would nesting a string of such quotes be even worse? Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: William Broom on June 02, 2010, 12:00:38 AM The number of carats equals the number of posts previous that you're replying to. It works on other message boards. This sounds like a terrible idea.Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Lon on June 02, 2010, 12:08:18 AM ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Like this? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Good one, that is clever. ^^ That is unintuitive, possibly the worst. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Tycho Brahe on June 02, 2010, 03:37:22 AM I hate the ^^ system, as it's used differently in so many different places, in some; ^^ simply means the post above and in others each ^ signifies each post above.
I agree that quoting someone directly above you is kinda stupid, unless you want to respond to specific parts of their post, and I know that I'm more than guilty of overusing the quote button. But it is useful for replying to posts 3 or more posts up, especially when there's more than one thread of discussion going through the thread. but nested quotes can get friggin annoying, case in point, a recent example from the grumpy old programmer room: My dynamic_cast keeps failing and I don't know what to do. This is driving me crazy. can you check the type with rtti?Dynamic_cast and typeid only work on classes that have or inherit virtual functions. Is that the problem? Are you trying to dynamic_cast a pointer? The only other thing I can think of is that you aren't dereferencing the pointer. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: st33d on June 02, 2010, 03:58:01 AM Yeah, the carat business is either there on a forum or it isn't. And I've never seen it used here, so I guess it doesn't belong.
I think it was indeed page 57 of the Grumpy Old Programmer Room that set me posting this thread. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Tycho Brahe on June 02, 2010, 04:13:54 AM @st33d
yeah, I thought it was pretty ridiculous, especially as you can edit the quotes so that you only quote the most recent post. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Gimym JIMBERT on June 02, 2010, 04:40:33 AM [ :cavestory: ]
@st33d yeah, I thought it was pretty ridiculous, especially as you can edit the quotes so that you only quote the most recent post. [/ :cavestory: ] [ :cavestory: ] @st33d yeah, I thought it was pretty ridiculous, especially as you can edit the quotes so that you only quote the most recent post. [/ :cavestory: ] Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Dacke on June 02, 2010, 04:55:37 AM Placing the quote beneath your response would probably be the worst. Wow, it took me forever to figure out that you had written anything in your post. I also think I'm starting to become a grumpy old veteran. I used to enjoy the derails and memetic nature of this place. Now it's starting to annoy me, at times. Especially seeing how the quote-discussion is fairly interesting. (http://images.quickblogcast.com/0/3/9/5/5/165723-155930/Grumpy_Man.jpg) Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: phubans on June 02, 2010, 06:42:01 AM I want to touch his chin.
Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Mipe on June 02, 2010, 06:47:04 AM His chins seems to want to touch you, too.
Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Gnarf on June 02, 2010, 07:28:02 AM The number of carats equals the number of posts previous that you're replying to. It works on other message boards. This sounds like a terrible idea.It would turn "Warning - while you were typing umpteen new replies have been posted. You may wish to review your post." into something entirely glorious. Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Mikademus on June 02, 2010, 07:36:36 AM The number of carats equals the number of posts previous that you're replying to. It works on other message boards. This sounds like a terrible idea.Sorry, I mean, ^^^^^^^^^^ No, we're pro forumers, this will weed out the weak and unworthy! Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Bandages on June 02, 2010, 08:57:53 AM Things all go to hell when you realize ^^ can just be a smilie face!
Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Corpus on June 02, 2010, 09:03:32 AM locked :handpointR: :handpointR:
Title: Re: Quoting the Post Immediately Above Your Post Post by: Melly on June 02, 2010, 10:51:27 AM Aww.
Anyway, I'd just like to say that, seriously, quoting the post right above you, unless you're going to reply to specific pieces of it one by one, is disnecessary. You can use @ person-I'm-replaying-to instead of quoting, if the post you want to quote is ginormous, or quote it but remove all the text and replace it with "stuff" or something like that. Avoid letting quotes nest. It's annoying as fuck to read a thread where that happens. Remove the previous nested quotes when quoting someone, to keep it clear. Other than those cases, it's all game. |