viscount replied
5th September 2018, 21:41
As Admin of an aviation forum, I would like to say that not having a ‘quote’ facility here is a breath of fresh air. The ‘quote’ facility encourages nit-picking detailed arguments that easily turn nasty. Every banning I have had to do started with a multi-quote post detailing the tearing apart of a previous post – often of generalisations intended to be read as a whole, not as segments of sentences to be examined in forensic detail.
Those who are quoting to positively add substance to a previous statement seem to be happy to take the time to copy/paste and “— ” a quote the old fashioned way.
Those that are ‘happy’ (or at least do the extra work) provide evidence. Those that were going to add something but realise they will have to faf around to quote something meaningful to respond to … don’t.
I do though note that a ‘like’ button has crept into the forum on this update. A feature I dislike as it tends to encourage short and flippant posts, the longer ones with lots of time taken to record detail and take a good read tend not to get a ‘like’ as by the time the reader has finished the ‘like’ button is scrolled up and out of sight – yet they are the most interesting, worthy posts. I notice some forum sites have amended the ‘like’ to a ‘thank you’ – in my opinion this would fit the Key forums better – it is polite, encouraging feel and more likely to be used by members – most of whom it is likely are older than in their twenties!
While I agree with treating (and preferably displaying) likes as ‘thanks’, in this case the button is at the bottom of posts so the length comments don’t apply.
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