SubJeff on 2/12/2009 at 20:34
regardless of how big it is.
How veryveryveryvery annoying. I'll donate £50 to TTLG if I can be made Mod of Smiting Those Who Quote The Entire Post Above Theirs, and not just in title.
No lie.
All I ask is the ability to moderate those people's posts and smite them as they surely deserve with whatever tools a mod usually has. Damn I hate it. Can you tell?
steo on 2/12/2009 at 20:57
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
regardless of how big it is.
How veryveryveryvery annoying. I'll donate £50 to TTLG if I can be made Mod of Smiting Those Who Quote The Entire Post Above Theirs, and not just in title.
No lie.
All I ask is the ability to moderate those people's posts and smite them as they surely deserve with whatever tools a mod usually has. Damn I hate it. Can you tell?
I know, it's such a pain isn't it?
Sorry, I couldn't resist. I better hope your request isn't granted...
SubJeff on 2/12/2009 at 21:00
I got a crisp 50 right here guys. RIGHT HERE. :mad:
rachel on 2/12/2009 at 22:29
Quote Posted by Wormrat
This practice provides a useful metric for gauging the quality of a forum, so the only thing that should impede it is community ostracization. Extra demerits for quoting huge images and adding something like "lol that's great."
Seriously though, is this behavior a holdover from chain emails or something? I feel like there must be a reason for its popularity other than stupidity.
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
I got a crisp 50 right here guys. RIGHT HERE. :mad:
Quote Posted by steo
I know, it's such a pain isn't it?
Sorry, I couldn't resist. I better hope your request isn't granted...
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
regardless of how big it is.
How veryveryveryvery annoying. I'll donate £50 to TTLG if I can be made Mod of Smiting Those Who Quote The Entire Post Above Theirs, and not just in title.
No lie.
All I ask is the ability to moderate those people's posts and smite them as they surely deserve with whatever tools a mod usually has. Damn I hate it. Can you tell?
^ totally agree :thumb:
Renzatic on 2/12/2009 at 22:31
I think some people are worried no one will know who they're talking to or what they're talking about unless they quote the entire block of text they're responding to.
It's goofy, but doesn't bother me much so long as they're not doing that horribly annoying thing Wormrat mentioned.
rachel on 2/12/2009 at 22:32
Seriously though, yeah it's annoying it's one of those things you have to live with I guess...
You'd have to be mod for every forum to get to every post, I don't think they'd let you ;)
SubJeff on 2/12/2009 at 22:39
Yeah, but I'd only get on the case of people who do that particular thing. No biggy. I only frequent a few sub-sections anyway.
Briareos H on 2/12/2009 at 22:53
It's never annoyed me and i've even been tempted to do it for the sake of clarity. If there can be a doubt, what i usually do is just make an empty quote of the above poster to specify he's the one i'm talking to. Anyway, I don't get what's so annoying about it, unless it's doing that just to write two stupid words below.
theBlackman on 2/12/2009 at 23:12
It's also laziness and lack of understanding of the rules of communication. Most of them are responding to a specific sentence or paragraph, and don't know how to edit the quote to pinpoint the part they are referrencing.
Those few that are attempting to respond to an entire post by quoting haven't noticed how the regular attendees have edited when they post a quote and response.
But I think laziness and general lack of education is the true culprit.
rachel on 2/12/2009 at 23:15
Laziness especially, considering that to edit a post the only thing you need to know (other than the relevant part of the post) is the location of the 'Del' key... :rolleyes:
