Quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes...

[silversun]

I was just wondering if there's a particularly good reason for allowing quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes? Can get very annoying when virtually a whole page is taken over by two posts each with multiple quotes. Especially annoying when someone posts a picture and everyone then quotes it and the picture is repeated ad infinitum.

Cheers!

[RacingPete]

We rely on people using common sense when quoting previous replies, deleting the uneccessary words or pictures from inside the quote tags. There could also be occasions where multiple quoting is relevant and setting a limit on this would reduce the functionality of the forums.

We will continue to monitor the usage of the quotes and whether to set a limit on the number of generations of quotes, but currently the majority of the forum users are using the quote functionality appropriately.

Hope that helps

[Fallen Angel]

RacingPete said:

We will continue to monitor the usage of the quotes and whether to set a limit on the number of generations of quotes, but currently the majority of the forum users are using the quote functionality appropriately.

Oh dear, I wish I knew how to use the quote within a quote within a quote... single quotes yes, but please, how to I format the q-w-q-w-q



ETA: I don't mind admitting I am female and very easily confused

[JonRB]

Fallen Angel said:

RacingPete said:

We will continue to monitor the usage of the quotes and whether to set a limit on the number of generations of quotes, but currently the majority of the forum users are using the quote functionality appropriately.

Oh dear, I wish I knew how to use the quote within a quote within a quote... single quotes yes, but please, how to I format the q-w-q-w-q



ETA: I don't mind admitting I am female and very easily confused

You just keep quoting people. Like this.
Quote me and type something - the amusement is never-ending, apparantly.

[Fallen Angel]

JonRB said:

You just keep quoting people. Like this.
Quote me and type something - the amusement is never-ending, apparantly.

Fallen Angel said:

Oh dear, I wish I knew how to use the quote within a quote within a quote... single quotes yes, but please, how to I format the q-w-q-w-q



ETA: I don't mind admitting I am female and very easily confused

RacingPete said:

We will continue to monitor the usage of the quotes and whether to set a limit on the number of generations of quotes, but currently the majority of the forum users are using the quote functionality appropriately.

Nah..... shall have to phone a friend !!!

[silversun]

Now you say that about text quotes I can see the value of it because it allows one to follow the salient point of a discussion without having to re-read multiple pages of a thread.

I take your point about relying on readers to remove the image or text if they're not relevent but in reality this doesn't happen much. It's not so much of an issue with text but with pictures it can be extremely irritating.

Thanks for your reply though, Pete, appreciated.

[JonRB]

silversun said:

Now you say that about text quotes I can see the value of it because it allows one to follow the salient point of a discussion without having to re-read multiple pages of a thread.

Perhaps, but what more often happens is you get lazy PHers just hitting "quote", not editing a thing, and just adding a few words on. When you get two such PHers replying to each other you get...

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Which, in my opinion at least, is pretty irritating.

[JonRB]

JonRB said:

silversun said:

Now you say that about text quotes I can see the value of it because it allows one to follow the salient point of a discussion without having to re-read multiple pages of a thread.

Perhaps, but what more often happens is you get lazy PHers just hitting "quote", not editing a thing, and just adding a few words on. When you get two such PHers replying to each other you get...

PersonA said:

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Which, in my opinion at least, is pretty irritating.

Especially when someone else quotes the whole lot and just says "me too".

[JonRB]

JonRB said:

JonRB said:

silversun said:

Now you say that about text quotes I can see the value of it because it allows one to follow the salient point of a discussion without having to re-read multiple pages of a thread.

Perhaps, but what more often happens is you get lazy PHers just hitting "quote", not editing a thing, and just adding a few words on. When you get two such PHers replying to each other you get...

PersonA said:

something

PersonB said:

something

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PersonA said:

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PersonB said:

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Which, in my opinion at least, is pretty irritating.

Especially when someone else quotes the whole lot and just says "me too".

Me too.

[Fallen Angel]

Now your both just bloody well showing off... :harrumph:

[900T-R]

Fallen Angel said:

Now your both just bloody well showing off... :harrumph:

It's 'you're', actually.


Lights the blue touch paper and waits for the 'bloody spelling pedants' brigade and the 'we're not going to let the English language go down the drain and not say anything about it' faction to chime in to mutually slag each other off. As long as everyone remembers to use the 'quote' button until we have to scroll left to right to read the messages, I'm all for it.

Edited by 900T-R on Tuesday 19th June 11:46

[The Griffalo]

JonRB said:

JonRB said:

JonRB said:

silversun said:

Now you say that about text quotes I can see the value of it because it allows one to follow the salient point of a discussion without having to re-read multiple pages of a thread.

Perhaps, but what more often happens is you get lazy PHers just hitting "quote", not editing a thing, and just adding a few words on. When you get two such PHers replying to each other you get...

PersonA said:

something

PersonB said:

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PersonB said:

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Which, in my opinion at least, is pretty irritating.

Especially when someone else quotes the whole lot and just says "me too".

Me too.

It's a pet hate of mine too... And it's even more annoying when everyone starts the thing.

[900T-R]

The Griffalo said:

JonRB said:

JonRB said:

JonRB said:

silversun said:

Now you say that about text quotes I can see the value of it because it allows one to follow the salient point of a discussion without having to re-read multiple pages of a thread.

Perhaps, but what more often happens is you get lazy PHers just hitting "quote", not editing a thing, and just adding a few words on. When you get two such PHers replying to each other you get...

PersonA said:

something

PersonB said:

something

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PersonA said:

something

PersonB said:

something

PersonA said:

something

PersonB said:

something

Which, in my opinion at least, is pretty irritating.

Especially when someone else quotes the whole lot and just says "me too".

Me too.

It's a pet hate of mine too... And it's even more annoying when everyone starts the thing.

Noooo... you're (see what I did?) not supposed to do that... it's my turn to put a here .

[Fallen Angel]

900T-R said:

It's 'you're', actually.


Lights the blue touch paper and waits for the 'bloody spelling pedants' brigade and the 'we're not going to let the English language go down the drain and not say anything about it' faction to chime in to mutually slag each other off. As long as everyone remembers to use the 'quote' button until we have to scroll left to right to read the messages, I'm all for it.

And don’t you start……

If I could work out how to quote on quote I would do but as I can’t..

[900T-R]

Fallen Angel said:

900T-R said:

It's 'you're', actually.


Lights the blue touch paper and waits for the 'bloody spelling pedants' brigade and the 'we're not going to let the English language go down the drain and not say anything about it' faction to chime in to mutually slag each other off. As long as everyone remembers to use the 'quote' button until we have to scroll left to right to read the messages, I'm all for it.

And don’t you start……

If I could work out how to quote on quote I would do but as I can’t..

Easy... just hit the 'quote' button... Ted and his hamsters do the rest.

[Fallen Angel]

- it is good that I laugh at myself and I am not blonde. Think I am making this way more difficult than it is and don't believe I am asking this but.... "where it the bloody quote button" and why is so hard please....




edited to add that I... nah, can't remember

Edited by Fallen Angel on Tuesday 19th June 12:07

[900T-R]

Fallen Angel said:

- it is good I laugh at myself and I am not blonde. Think I am making this way more difficult than it is and don't believe I am asking this but.... "where it the bloody quote button" and why is so hard please....

But you did quote my message! (above)

I'm starting to wonder whether there's something I'm missing here...

anyway, it's at the left top of the message, next to the posted time

anyone else thinking I'm being taken the proverbial of?

[900T-R]

Fallen Angel said:

edited to add that I... nah, can't remember

Ahh...

[Fallen Angel]

900T-R said:

Fallen Angel said:

- it is good I laugh at myself and I am not blonde. Think I am making this way more difficult than it is and don't believe I am asking this but.... "where it the bloody quote button" and why is so hard please....

But you did quote my message! (above)

I'm starting to wonder whether there's something I'm missing here...

anyway, it's at the left top of the message, next to the posted time

anyone else thinking I'm being taken the proverbial of?

OMG...

What a thicko...... am talking about me not you 900T-R (You are a star). How simple is that



ETA - no, that deserved another

[Parrot of Doom]

Anything happening on this front?

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...

It seems a shame that threads like that are fine, but other threads are deleted for 'wasting bandwidth'.

I think I'd make a good guess at what uses more bandwidth tbh.