One of the main reasons treads become so long (and boring at times) is this awful practice of allowing posters to quote the preceding post in full when replying, sometimes quoting in one post and then posting their one sentence response in another.
In the internet world this is regarded as bad manners and poor protocol observance. In other groups I participate in such posts are deleted with a warning to sin no more and persistent offenders may be suspended / banned.
I have raised this issue before but my suggestion to introduce such measures here has thus far fallen on deaf ears.
One of the main reasons treads become so long (and boring at times) is this awful practice of allowing posters to quote the preceding post in full when replying, sometimes quoting in one post and then posting their one sentence response in another...
That said, the options are a little misleading since,
And most people probably don't realise that if you highlight the short bit you want to quote
That's not how it works though, is it? Both 'Reply' and 'Quote' quote the post you clicked them on, but whereas 'Reply' quotes just that one post, 'Quote' adds it to a list of quotes which may all be included when you comment.Is it a simple as relabelling the text on the buttons? "Reply" just positions the insertion point and cursor in the regular text-box, "Quote" quotes the contents of the post that instance of the "Quote" button appears in?
p.s The thread title "People should not quote the entire post in their reply!" doesn't really capture my thought or my suggestion. Maybe "People should not quote the preceding post in their reply!" would be closer.
pps I just discovered I'm still the thread starter so I fixed the title to my satisfaction. That's cool @Brendan. I thought once you had intervened I'd been demoted.
That's my point. It is quoting the preceding post that gets my goat, clogs up threads and makes them difficult to follow.It's not the preceding post. Every post in the thread has a "Reply(with full post text)" button.
A matter of preference I guess -- I much prefer a short relevant quote with every post. I speed-read several dozen email alerts from AAM most days, don't even have to follow the link on most of them (thanks to Brendan's insistence on descriptive topic titles), and the remainder I can usually jump to the last comment or two, where I'd much prefer to see a pithy quote than have to traipse back through the thread to establish context.That's my point. It is quoting the preceding post that gets my goat, clogs up threads and makes them difficult to follow.
Multiquote, Quote and Reply,
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