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« Reply #41 on: June 01, 2010, 09:09:32 PM » |
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« Reply #42 on: June 01, 2010, 09:12:43 PM » |
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Self Quote.
PS I personally like the future quote, also Melly's, eh, pyramid quote is impressive. |
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“We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do..." -Seneca
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« Reply #43 on: June 01, 2010, 10:56:26 PM » |
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The only entity more important that the cosmos is Pierog.
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« Reply #44 on: June 01, 2010, 11:19:39 PM » |
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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? |
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« Reply #45 on: June 02, 2010, 12:00:38 AM » |
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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 #46 on: June 02, 2010, 12:08:18 AM » |
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Like this?
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Good one, that is clever.
^^ That is unintuitive, possibly the worst.
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“We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do..." -Seneca
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« Reply #47 on: June 02, 2010, 03:37:22 AM » |
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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? Even typeid fails... Which is fucking weird, because it (dynamic_cast) works just fine for a different object, created in the exact same way, but from a different class derived from the same class as the one it fails for. It works just fine to dynamic_cast my initial variable, but later calling it on a pointer fails. Dynamic_cast and typeid only work on classes that have or inherit virtual functions. Is that the problem? No. Like I said, it works for a different class derived from the same base class sharing the exact same conditions. All functions in the base class, including the destructor, are virtual. Are you trying to dynamic_cast a pointer? The only other thing I can think of is that you aren't dereferencing the pointer. Already tried that. I don't need to, though, since I'm fine off using it as a pointer, since I just need to call two member functions, which -> allows me to do just fine. |
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« Reply #48 on: June 02, 2010, 03:58:01 AM » |
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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.
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« Reply #49 on: June 02, 2010, 04:13:54 AM » |
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@st33d
yeah, I thought it was pretty ridiculous, especially as you can edit the quotes so that you only quote the most recent post.
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« Reply #50 on: June 02, 2010, 04:40:33 AM » |
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[  ] @st33d yeah, I thought it was pretty ridiculous, especially as you can edit the quotes so that you only quote the most recent post. [/ ] [ ] @st33d yeah, I thought it was pretty ridiculous, especially as you can edit the quotes so that you only quote the most recent post. [/ ] |
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« Reply #51 on: June 02, 2010, 04:55:37 AM » |
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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.  |
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« Reply #52 on: June 02, 2010, 06:42:01 AM » |
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« Reply #53 on: June 02, 2010, 06:47:04 AM » |
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His chins seems to want to touch you, too.
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« Reply #54 on: June 02, 2010, 07:28:02 AM » |
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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. |
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« Reply #55 on: June 02, 2010, 07:36:36 AM » |
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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. No, we're pro forumers, this will weed out the weak and unworthy!Sorry, I mean, ^^^^^^^^^^ No, we're pro forumers, this will weed out the weak and unworthy! |
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« Reply #56 on: June 02, 2010, 08:57:53 AM » |
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Things all go to hell when you realize ^^ can just be a smilie face!
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« Reply #57 on: June 02, 2010, 09:03:32 AM » |
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« Reply #58 on: June 02, 2010, 10:51:27 AM » |
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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.
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