Forum Quote Facility Abuse
All,
Recently we have had a number of threads that have had the quotes system used excessively which is beginning to dilute the contents of threads. Whilst using quotes in some cases can be useful to get your point across, it can be counter productive as it can fragment the thread. Rather than imposing a blanked ban on this can everybody give some thought to whether the use of quotes is absolutely necessary to get your point across. This will also put less load on the forum which will make it run faster.
As a guideline;
1) If it is the post directly above yours, don’t quote it
2) If the quote contains images – remove them first
3) If the post you are quoting is very long and you are only answering one part of it please edit the quote so that only the part you are responding to is relevant.
Cheers
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By: Peter - 10th April 2016 at 22:06
No because it is not quoting a post above it…. nice try 🙂
By: snafu - 6th April 2016 at 15:26
Not sure if I should mention this but isn’t the majority of post one a quote from a six year old webmaster sticky?
By: paul178 - 5th April 2016 at 19:07
See post 3 in GD.
By: paul178 - 5th April 2016 at 19:05
Simple really If its busy topic just write “@post 1” or whatever. I don’t like the red text though my old schoolteacher used to write it all over my exercise books for mistakes!:highly_amused:
By: trekbuster - 5th April 2016 at 15:40
1) If it is the post directly above yours, don’t quote it
Sometimes tricky to get right, but I get the point
By: Bunsen Honeydew - 5th April 2016 at 13:14
Fully agree but often reply with quote is the only reply option available.
I delete the quote if it’s not relevant, as I had to here.
By: TonyT - 5th April 2016 at 01:32
Oooohhh sooo tempting…
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April 5, 2016 at 1:26 am