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Ok, I know some of you are really enamoured of the ability to directly quote a post above yours, but for the love of christ, if you are the first one to respond to a thread do you have to quote the entire thing thats directly above your post? If there is only one possible post to which your responding, I really don't think you need to emphasize it so as not to lose the rest of us. Its just kinda a pet peeve, but I see it all the time.
Ok, I know some of you are really enamoured of the ability to directly quote a post above yours, but for the love of christ, if you are the first one to respond to a thread do you have to quote the entire thing thats directly above your post? If there is only one possible post to which your responding, I really don't think you need to emphasize it so as not to lose the rest of us. Its just kinda a pet peeve, but I see it all the time.
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Though I totally agree with you, this does belong in meta.
On the other hand, sometimes you have to quote yourself to make a point or emphasize something, though it is annoying when someone quotes their entire post to discuss a single line of it.
Though I totally agree with you, this does belong in meta.
On the other hand, sometimes you have to quote yourself to make a point or emphasize something, though it is annoying when someone quotes their entire post to discuss a single line of it.
Wow, a triple post while I was intending to perform teh funny... heh!
Though I totally agree with you, this does belong in meta.
On the other hand, sometimes you have to quote yourself to make a point or emphasize something, though it is annoying when someone quotes their entire post to discuss a single line of it.
It's preemptive quoting. You know, when you type long-winded replies, chances are someone else will slip in between what you reply to and your reply, so it's safer to quote nonetheless.
Though I totally agree with you, this does belong in meta.
On the other hand, sometimes you have to quote yourself to make a point or emphasize something, though it is annoying when someone quotes their entire post to discuss a single line of it.
I agree that this belongs in meta.
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If there is only one possible post to which your responding, I really don't think you need to emphasize it so as not to lose the rest of us.
I often quote people just ahead of me in order to single out specific things they say. Also, sometimes people sneak in new replies before I can finish mine.
It's no big deal. People ranting or trolling are far worse. Of course, you don't quite the entire post to reply to a single item, but only quote the relevant stuff. I don't see entire posts quoted very often, though.
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Though I totally agree with you, this does belong in meta.
On the other hand, sometimes you have to quote yourself to make a point or emphasize something, though it is annoying when someone quotes their entire post to discuss a single line of it.
I hate when posters seem to randomly quote someone (maybe the last post they read) and what they say has nothing to do with the person they're quoting.
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Ok, I know some of you are really enamoured of the ability to directly quote a post above yours, but for the love of christ, if you are the first one to respond to a thread do you have to quote the entire thing thats directly above your post? If there is only one possible post to which your responding, I really don't think you need to emphasize it so as not to lose the rest of us. Its just kinda a pet peeve, but I see it all the time.
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Ok, I know some of you are really enamoured of the ability to directly quote a post above yours, but for the love of christ, if you are the first one to respond to a thread do you have to quote the entire thing thats directly above your post? If there is only one possible post to which your responding, I really don't think you need to emphasize it so as not to lose the rest of us. Its just kinda a pet peeve, but I see it all the time.
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Though I totally agree with you, this does belong in meta.
On the other hand, sometimes you have to quote yourself to make a point or emphasize something, though it is annoying when someone quotes their entire post to discuss a single line of it.
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Though I totally agree with you, this does belong in meta.
On the other hand, sometimes you have to quote yourself to make a point or emphasize something, though it is annoying when someone quotes their entire post to discuss a single line of it.
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Ok, I know some of you are really enamoured of the ability to directly quote a post above yours, but for the love of christ, if you are the first one to respond to a thread do you have to quote the entire thing thats directly above your post? If there is only one possible post to which your responding, I really don't think you need to emphasize it so as not to lose the rest of us. Its just kinda a pet peeve, but I see it all the time.
Actually yes I do have to quote the first post if I'm the second post, you mean you don't? I mean doesn't the reply button taunt you to push it with it's hypnotic pulsing and it's incessant wisper in your head "quote them, quote them, you know you want to quote them, do it now,quote them". I must quote them or else the consequences will be dire indeed, my dog told me so, he also told me he was J. Edgar Hoover in disguise. Oh my, they know I posted this, they are coming for me, No J Edgar No, I promise I didn't tell, what are you doing with that meat cleaver? I didn't even know we had a meat cleaver? Arg call for help somebody please help me, help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Also, sometimes people sneak in new replies before I can finish mine.
And then you have to go back and edit your post to insert the quote so everything makes sense...
It's all too much of a hassle.
My advice is - even if you think you're the first reply to a new thread - quote the original message, just to emphasise so as not to lose the rest of us.
And then you have to go back and edit your post to insert the quote so everything makes sense...
It's all too much of a hassle.
My advice is - even if you think you're the first reply to a new thread - quote the original message, just to emphasise so as not to lose the rest of us.
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I think the main thing is, as long as the dm enforces his house rules on crits with an iron hand it'll all work out.
It's considered polite to quote something you're responding to, especially if you're using points that were made in an earlier post.
The thing that really gets me is when people feel the need to quote large images. Snip the image - it wastes bandwidth, and makes pages load even slower for people still on dial-up.
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