陳德聰 Posted June 26, 2012 at 08:22 AM Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 at 08:22 AM The way it is now, I sometimes have to read 20 posts to find out who a poster is replying to. It is possible to add this manually, using the "QUOTE name='imron'" syntax and the like, but obviously most people won't bother. OOOOOOOOOOOH I am thoroughly enthused. Perhaps beyond words. ... Edit: Nope, when I look at it, I still have words. But they all start with: OOOOOOOOOOOH 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lu Posted June 26, 2012 at 02:22 PM Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 at 02:22 PM I am perfectly content with the missing quote button, but a button for 'empty' quotes with just poster+link sounds like a great idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelley Posted June 26, 2012 at 09:00 PM Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 at 09:00 PM Maybe we could use the symbol ^ (upper case 6 on my keyboard)twice ^^ as very rough aproximation for the character 从 cong meaning from to show where the post came from that is being quoted. Something like this maybe:- ^^ Someone Quote Test text etc The quote button didn't work so i pretended, but you should get the idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted June 26, 2012 at 11:25 PM Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 at 11:25 PM Even if the quote icon is not working, you can still manually type the quote tags [ quote ] [ /quote ] yourself. In fact, as a heavy keyboard user, this is how I always do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creamyhorror Posted June 27, 2012 at 02:42 AM Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 at 02:42 AM Even if the quote icon is not working, you can still manually type the quote tags yourself. In fact, as a heavy keyboard user, this is how I always do it. Well, what we'd like is to be able to click a quote button on a post to get the name of the poster we're replying to. The point is to take away the need to type {quote name="person"}, which would let everyone quote easily without spamming. Seems like a great idea to me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvdberg112 Posted December 17, 2012 at 10:17 AM Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 at 10:17 AM If I good enter a feature request, it would be for the quote button be re-added. It is on many other forums that a visit and it was always a great help. It actually helped people communicate better, because in stead of saying referring to other people's words with 'that' or 'what you said', people were ,more specific and less confusion arose from which exact words were referred to. And I never saw many cases that people over-quoted; usually only the paragraph or sentence that the point of discussion. And anyway, I believe that the trade off between some people over-quoting and other too-less quoting is positive when having the quote button. Just my two cents. Anyway, this is good forum still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lingo-ling Posted December 22, 2012 at 02:23 AM Report Share Posted December 22, 2012 at 02:23 AM Yes, I think the quote button should be (re-?) added. I participate on perhaps 10 forums, and this is the only forum that doesn't have a quote button. The other forums have very few problems with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted December 22, 2012 at 11:14 AM Report Share Posted December 22, 2012 at 11:14 AM and this is the only forum that doesn't have a quote button This is the only forum moderated by Roddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lingo-ling Posted December 23, 2012 at 11:49 AM Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 at 11:49 AM "imron wrote:"Copy the text you want to quote. Paste the text into the "Reply" text field. Select the text with the mouse. Hit the quote icon (this will place quote tags around the text) Type your reply. Repeat as needed. Don't forget "Memorize the name of the person you're quoting so you can put it at the top so people know who you're quoting." A quote button would be oh so much less troublesome. I don't see what the big deal is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted December 23, 2012 at 11:58 AM Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 at 11:58 AM A quote button would be oh so much less troublesome. Yes it would, which tends to encourage people to quote more than they should. The whole point is that removing it makes people be more selective about what they should quote, or even realise that perhaps they don't even need to quote anyway. Doing it this way was a concious decision and I don't see it changing anytime soon, especially as previous times when people convinced Roddy to re-enable it, it never lasted more than a couple of weeks before Roddy got sick of all the over-quoting and disabled it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liuzhou Posted December 23, 2012 at 02:26 PM Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 at 02:26 PM For what it's worth, I am delighted by the lack of quote button. I get so annoyed on other forums when someone wants to refer to three words in a post, but quotes the entire 2000 words. Then user b) repeats the whole 2000 words just to add "No." If you are really so busy and important that you can't take time to extract and only quote the relevant part, how come you have so much time to spare on chat forums? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takeshi Posted December 24, 2012 at 05:50 PM Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2012 at 05:50 PM The way it is now, I sometimes have to read 20 posts to find out who a poster is replying to. It is possible to add this manually, using the "QUOTE name='imron'" syntax and the like, but obviously most people won't bother. OOOOOOOOOOOH I am thoroughly enthused. Perhaps beyond words. ... Edit: Nope, when I look at it, I still have words. But they all start with: OOOOOOOOOOOH Wow, how did you do that? *testing* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneEye Posted December 24, 2012 at 06:45 PM Report Share Posted December 24, 2012 at 06:45 PM The way it is now, I sometimes have to read 20 posts to find out who a poster is replying to. It is possible to add this manually, using the "QUOTE name='imron'" syntax and the like, but obviously most people won't bother. OOOOOOOOOOOH I am thoroughly enthused. Perhaps beyond words. ... Edit: Nope, when I look at it, I still have words. But they all start with: OOOOOOOOOOOH Wow, how did you do that? *testing* Quoteception. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted January 2, 2013 at 06:28 PM Report Share Posted January 2, 2013 at 06:28 PM What Imron means to say is "I don't want the quote button back either, but I'm going to say 'Roddy' a lot so people think it's his fault." see. Don't trust Imron. He just does it to make me look bad...if it wasn't for him you could have the quote button back...well, never. But that's not the point. We've managed brilliantly without the quote button so far. I am confident we will continue to do so. If anything, the increased use of mobile devices makes our (note, Imron, the use of the second person plural) maverick quoting policy look even wiser - life's too short to scroll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meng Lelan Posted January 2, 2013 at 07:13 PM Report Share Posted January 2, 2013 at 07:13 PM Yes it would, which tends to encourage people to quote more than they should. So we need a quote quota. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted January 3, 2013 at 08:39 AM Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 at 08:39 AM He just does it to make me look bad I have to find meaning in life somehow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realmayo Posted January 3, 2013 at 10:29 AM Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 at 10:29 AM makes our... maverick quoting policy look even wiser Here's a real maverick quoting policy: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092099/quotes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gougou Posted January 4, 2013 at 08:27 AM Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 at 08:27 AM our (note, Imron, the use of the second person plural) Actually, it's first. Let's see how you pin that one on poor imron! ;-) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted January 4, 2013 at 09:04 AM Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 at 09:04 AM Infamy, infamy, they've all got it infamy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demonic_Duck Posted September 16, 2013 at 04:48 PM Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 at 04:48 PM Just an idea, but couldn't you impliment a quote button next to every post that simply quotes whatever is highlighted within that post, and displays an error message if nothing is highlighted? This ought to solve the "quoting the entire post unnecessarily" problem whilst providing the functionality of automatically referencing who said it and linking back to the original post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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