overuse of the quote feature

[mode3sour]

Folks, just as a minor bugaboo, could I ask our quote-happy CMFers to please reconsider their use of the quote feature? A forum represents a linear conversation and lately I've noticed even the shortest threads are seeing every message being posted in duplicate. That is, the OP posts a comment and then the respondent copies that same comment below by way of the quote feature. Some posters do this more than others and it results in constant scrolling and excess # of pages when reading a thread. One thread I read had like 4 short posts and every response had the post above quoted. That resulted in twice as much text than was necessary in the thread. And it's equally annoying for big long posts and short ones. It's not necessary to use the quote feature every time. Please use it judiciously and post the majority of your replies and discussion in the quick reply box. Thank you.

The other thing is to edit down the quote to only the item you are responding to if it is not obvious...and in quick reply, do not check the box to include the original.

Exactly!!! ??? :-)

What box? Lol.

Back to the thread - I agree with Royal that overuse of quotes isn't a good thing.

The problem is that if people don't use them enough - it leads to misunderstandings, because someone might be replying to a previous post, but nobody knows which post unless they quote.

Alright - just learned how to do quick reply - so proud.
And here I was just thinking how if I wanted to be a better CFM member I should learn how to do the quotes! - now it's not "cool" anymore, dang it, and I never even got to try it.

Hey there are no emoticons in this option ......... guess I'll have to use : )

Bugaboo when googled brings up: strollers and the definition - legendary scary monster. Not sure which fits best into the sentence above.

Can I quote you on that?

Just remove the space like I did above and here

Agreed.

I think that's what Brits might call 'taking the piss'.

Haha.

This actually made me laugh out loud.

Hilarious.

And TRM, sorry I used the quote feature.

+1

[Rico]

But if you hadn't, we might have thought you were laughing at the original posting . . .

[KaeJS]

But if you hadn't, we might have thought you were laughing at the original posting . . .

Exactly.

[the-royal-mail]

Guys, most forums these days have rules against excessive use of the quote feature. But, good to know you can laugh. You have won, wow you got me good.

[andrewf]

I think it's fair. If you responding to a particular part of a post, it's good to trim the extraneous text. I try not to use quote if I'm responding to one of the last two or three posts.

[mode3sour]

I don't understand how you can't use the quote function. The problem is just that people need to trim it to what they are responding to

My biggest forum pet peeve is people quoting big posts of pictures to comment on one picture, but that's not an issue here. For text what is the big deal? Get a decent monitor and anything better than dial up and text is not really factor at all

[Berubeland]

Guys, most forums these days have rules against excessive use of the quote feature. But, good to know you can laugh. You have won, wow you got me good.

Banned for not liking quotes

I also don't think it's right to only have three tiers of saving I think we should have at least 5 or 6 tiers of savings, one for emergencies, one for vacations, one for buying Christmas presents for Rachelle, one for paying people not to use the quote feature too much, one for buying big screen tv's and digital cable boxes, and finally one tier for diamond jewelry, oh crap 7 tiers, one extra tier for classic car purchases.

[the-royal-mail]

It has nothing to do with monitor or Internet speed. I have good versions of both. The issue is all this quoting is filling up the screen with garbage/unnecessary text that we already read once and I'm having to be constantly scrolling and wading through all the quoting/text I already read just to find the new content. When reading back on many of the threads here, I find a lot of time is being wasted in clicking to the next page and constant scrolling and having to read past blocks of text being quoted over and over again. If you are posting in a thread, we already know what your post is about. Try reading one of our longer threads and you'll see what I mean.

[DavidJD]

What vexes me is jumping onto a thread with a tantalizing title only to find it has denegrated to a back and forth between two posters about an individual stock's performance or something similarly off the thread's topic...time to start a new thread methinks...

Bravo to those whose Thread title is clear. If the topic is narrow and unrelated to what the broader group would want to follow, indicate that.

Also avoid threads like, "Question" or "RRSP" that should have more detail.

adios

[Plugging Along]

I also don't think it's right to only have three tiers of saving I think we should have at least 5 or 6 tiers of savings, one for emergencies, one for vacations, one for buying Christmas presents for Rachelle, one for paying people not to use the quote feature too much, one for buying big screen tv's and digital cable boxes, and finally one tier for diamond jewelry, oh crap 7 tiers, one extra tier for classic car purchases.

Sorry for using the quote, (I did trim out the first line of the quote) but this made me RLMAO... +2