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Do you think nested quotes should be automatically removed?
q_q_:
it's nice to have some pretty smilies for kids to play with..
But, this forum update has a serious problem.
As before.
If somebody wants to reply to post x, quoting it, he clicks quote.
That's fine, that's good.
but if post x contains a quote, the quote gets lost
Here is an example. Anybody that tries to reply to this post, quoting it. i.e. replying by clicking quote. Will LOSE the following text
--- Quote from: abc ---THIS TEXT WILL NOT BE INCLUDED!!!!!!!!!
I read an interesting article in the daily express
--- End quote ---
Indeed, it is an interesting paper
q_q_:
--- Quote from: q_q_ on September 21, 2008, 06:27:08 AM ---it's nice to have some pretty smilies for kids to play with..
But, this forum update has a serious problem.
As before.
If somebody wants to reply to post x, quoting it, he clicks quote.
That's fine, that's good.
but if post x contains a quote, the quote gets lost
Here is an example. Anybody that tries to reply to this post, quoting it. i.e. replying by clicking quote. Will LOSE the following text
Indeed, it is an interesting paper
--- End quote ---
see, the text about Daily Express, is lost.
It also takes an extra mouse click and hand movement to view one's posts,
and (less of a problem but still a deterioration -albeit a minor one), one cannot post twice within 30 seconds.
The main problem though is in the quoting.
George:
--- Quote from: q_q_ on September 21, 2008, 06:28:23 AM ---see, the text about Daily Express, is lost.
--- End quote ---
That's what's good about the updates. I quoted your post and your previous quote which is irrelevant has automatically been deleted. It saves space.
q_q_:
--- Quote from: Ralph2 on September 21, 2008, 06:31:08 AM ---That's what's good about the updates. I quoted your post and your previous quote which is irrelevant has automatically been deleted. It saves space.
--- End quote ---
No, one uses one's intelligence to save space by removing what is unnecessary.
Including the quote was very important, otherwise you can't see the context. In this case, one cannot see what newspaper is being referred to. The newspaper name is written in a particular sentence of the first post. My example demonstrated how context is lost by this stupid dumbing down feature
It would have been worse if it was 2 posts above. or a thread of 2 pages. It would be impossible.
cjd:
--- Quote from: q_q_ on September 21, 2008, 06:27:08 AM ---it's nice to have some pretty smilies for kids to play with..
But, this forum update has a serious problem.
As before.
If somebody wants to reply to post x, quoting it, he clicks quote.
That's fine, that's good.
but if post x contains a quote, the quote gets lost
Here is an example. Anybody that tries to reply to this post, quoting it. i.e. replying by clicking quote. Will LOSE the following text
Indeed, it is an interesting paper
--- End quote ---
I am an old bird and I like to play with the smilies in moderation :-[. I noticed what you are talking about with the quotes it seems to be a glitch that truncates the part of the post that is not highlighted. I am sure something can be done to fix it. Lets bring it to Shlomo's attention.
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