04-23-2012, 01:44 AM
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(Always strive for perfection ... don't quote extensive posts unnecessarily!)
Can you guys make it to where when someone quotes something that is a 4 page long post it doesn't simply re show the whole message, and just summarizes it or cuts it? Hell, it might save on bandwidth costs.
Not a big deal, just one of those things that I grind my teeth about.
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04-23-2012, 11:10 AM
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On a related note I'll mention again about poster-sized images but even worse is when the damn things get quoted x number of times more.
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04-23-2012, 11:12 AM
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It's when there is a huge post and someone quotes it and says "That's cool!" where I just giggle and think "Efficiency Forum"
I would cite specific examples of this phenomenon, but I don't want to be rude, so I'll leave it up to Frank.
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04-23-2012, 11:21 AM
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Oh, I would never want to offend anyone's sensibilities!  |
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04-23-2012, 12:21 PM
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I would say: please go ahead and educate the excessive quoters.
Feel free to point them back here.
If we made an automatic quote-trimming feature, someone would surely complain (rightly so) that they can't quote the part of the message that they want to. (People like me: I regularly cherry-pick parts of long quotes.)
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04-23-2012, 12:31 PM
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How about an auto shrink feature if it's more than a page long then?
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04-23-2012, 12:39 PM
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I'll see if there's a plug-in for that. But I'm still inclined to say: hound them!
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04-23-2012, 12:42 PM
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I can't understand why some users quote a certain post, when their reply would be just as good without it 
This forum's software is already at least one step forward, since any quotes in the original, cited post are omitted when replying. Imagine someone replying "+1" not just to one post, but to all of the previous posts, quoted one inside the next recursively
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04-23-2012, 12:48 PM
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04-23-2012, 12:49 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by brucey
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Woah, you like animals too? We should hang out some time.
(I wanted to have an example, but not call anyone out on it.)
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