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How can we tell on here who or where a post/reply comes from & or who it is intended for ? Hard to know if they do not quote , or reply with name/nic included.
 

rgp said:
How can we tell on here who or where a post/reply comes from & or who it is intended for ? Hard to know if they do not quote , or reply with name/nic included.
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Most people here seem to use the quote function but some don't. I don't always use it especially just posting to the last person who posted before me. I guess you'd have to make a wild guess if they don't quote! :)
 
I always quote a name if I'm replying to a specific person, otherwise my posts are for everyone and anyone to reply to if they wish..
 

rgp said:
How can we tell on here who or where a post/reply comes from & or who it is intended for ? Hard to know if they do not quote , or reply with name/nic included.
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I agree, unless somebody uses the Reply With Quote button, making it easy to see who they are replying to, it is hard to know. Using their name in your reply is the next best thing. Sometimes if we reply to the previous post above, it's obvious, but not always....especially if someone else just added another response before you.
 
SeaBreeze said:
I agree, unless somebody uses the Reply With Quote button, making it easy to see who they are replying to, it is hard to know. Using their name in your reply is the next best thing. Sometimes if we reply to the previous post above, it's obvious, but not always....especially if someone else just added another response before you.
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I don't get it! It's so easy to use the quote feature.
 
Sometimes I reply to the person above and when
I post my bit I find that there were another 3 or 4
pages after where I was reading, not so much now
though.

I worry about using the "Reply With Quote! function
as the servers will get really filled up and start to go
slow when the Bandwidth is reached, or am I being
silly and you have plenty of space.

Mike.
 
Mike said:
Sometimes I reply to the person above and when
I post my bit I find that there were another 3 or 4
pages after where I was reading, not so much now
though.

I worry about using the "Reply With Quote! function
as the servers will get really filled up and start to go
slow when the Bandwidth is reached, or am I being
silly and you have plenty of space.

Mike.
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Maybe 15 or 20 years ago this may have been a problem, but I doubt it is on any of the forums today.
 
camper6 said:
you are always going to run into the quote or don't quote type of response on a forum.

What is worse is when someone 'cherry picks' part of a quote so that it loses its context and meaning to make a point.
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yes, i agree. A person goes to the trouble of making a post and then someone else comes along and selects a single sentence or even just a few words in an attempt to refute the entire post. Sometimes frustrating, but not much that can be done about it.
 
Traveler said:
yes, i agree. A person goes to the trouble of making a post and then someone else comes along and selects a single sentence or even just a few words in an attempt to refute the entire post.
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Everyone who uses the quote feature can edit out any part of the quoted post that they aren't addressing, so if you're quoting a long post, but only commenting on one or two sentences in it, it's best to just focus on those sentences rather than quote the whole thing. Putting your mouse cursor in front of the words you want removed and hitting delete will erase unwanted content from a quoted post.

Mike, using the Reply With Quote feature isn't a problem at all, but thanks for your concern.
 
Thank you SeaBreeze for telling me that it is OK.

Only I remember several years ago when a forum,
now long gone, crashed and ran very slow because
of too much use of the quote facility.

I am happy that it won't happen here.

Mike.
 

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