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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.
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« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2010, 06:49:56 AM » |
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« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2010, 06:51:53 AM » |
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That's... uh... interesting.
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« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2010, 06:52:46 AM » |
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i don't understand your grammar or english, could you clarify whether you are against or for quoting the post above your own
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« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2010, 06:54:10 AM » |
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And I half expected this thread to just be full of people quoting the post above.
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« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2010, 06:54:38 AM » |
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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. |
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« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2010, 06:55:43 AM » |
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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
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« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2010, 06:56:08 AM » |
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And I half expected this thread to just be full of people quoting the post above.
Same. |
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« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2010, 06:57:15 AM » |
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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.
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« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2010, 06:59:59 AM » |
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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.
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« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2010, 07:02:33 AM » |
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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?
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« Reply #11 on: June 01, 2010, 07:05:32 AM » |
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When I'm replying to a specific statement in the post above me, I quote that statement. That's it.
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« Reply #12 on: June 01, 2010, 07:07:12 AM » |
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How about quoting whole images again and again?
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« Reply #13 on: June 01, 2010, 07:09:10 AM » |
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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.
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« Reply #14 on: June 01, 2010, 07:12:30 AM » |
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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.
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« Reply #15 on: June 01, 2010, 07:18:57 AM » |
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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? |
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« Reply #16 on: June 01, 2010, 07:20:45 AM » |
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no, but trying to be funny by ironically doing so would be
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« Reply #17 on: June 01, 2010, 07:24:18 AM » |
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because sometimes you just have a feeling.
What about quoting something that will be said in the future? |
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« Reply #18 on: June 01, 2010, 07:24:41 AM » |
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because sometimes you just have a feeling.
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« Reply #19 on: June 01, 2010, 07:27:28 AM » |
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