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Do you think nested quotes should be automatically removed?
muman613:
My 2 cents worth...
I think that Shlomo made a good decision. I noticed that people were quoting and sub-quoting the same thing over and over. It makes no sense to include the whole post in every post which just concerns one or two paragraphs in the original posting. I have tried, in the past, to edit out the parts which are not essential to make my point.
I like smileys and I am not a youngster by any means. Also the age of software engineers is far larger than was estimated above. In my field there are engineers in their 20s and engineers in their 40s {Like me}. The computer software industry really blossomed in the mid 80's {When I was 18}. What I like about smileys is that they provide a graphical representation of an emotional state. We all know that a picture is worth 1000s of words. A mature person will use all the tools at their disposal to make their posting more understandable and appealing to the reader.
I understand the reason that the forum doesnt allow flood posting. Because we have had so many Trolls who post so much garbage it is essential that if a person floods we assume they are a troll. What is so hard about waiting 30 seconds to make another posting?
muman613
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--- Quote from: muman613 on September 21, 2008, 02:00:42 PM ---My 2 cents worth...
I think that Shlomo made a good decision. I noticed that people were quoting and sub-quoting the same thing over and over. It makes no sense to include the whole post in every post which just concerns one or two paragraphs in the original posting. I have tried, in the past, to edit out the parts which are not essential to make my point.
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I know you try to avoid confrontation so there's little point in me telling you this..
but if when it happens, you too can help correct people regarding this. Tell them they have quoted a load of unnecessary things and to snip appropriately, then that would be good.
--- Quote from: muman613 on September 21, 2008, 02:00:42 PM ---I like smileys and I am not a youngster by any means.
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I said it was about kid-like minds. You are quite mature-minded but I guess it's possible that maybe you have bad episodes sometimes. I haven't seen you using smileys very often though.
The smiley thing is not terrible though.
You do have a rather large sig. About 13 lines.
Shlomo mentioned a sig of about 5 lines max.
I don't understand why people read this thread and continue posting in it with LONG signatures after it was already been mentioned.
It's not that long.. But it is significantly long, and unnecessarily long.
you can easily get your message across - that your nick is muman613, with regular sized letters and not ascii art.
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--- Quote from: Pheasant on September 21, 2008, 01:49:46 PM ---
--- Quote from: Rubystars on September 21, 2008, 01:15:59 PM ---I like the new smileys. 8)
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I don't. but I accept that the majority of people like it.
I prefer the old puritane smiley-schemas.
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Thanks pheasant! Perfect sig!
Rubystars:
--- Quote from: Pheasant on September 21, 2008, 01:49:46 PM ---
--- Quote from: Rubystars on September 21, 2008, 01:15:59 PM ---I like the new smileys. 8)
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I don't. but I accept that the majority of people like it.
I prefer the old puritane smiley-schemas.
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The old smileys do look more serious so they go better with a more serious discussion. It's still possible to put an older style smiley in with an img tag though even if you don't switch your user cp over.
cjd:
I am leaving my signature as it is until election day here in America and at that point I will leave only the lighthouse and my original tag line that I had since the original JTF Forum. I will try to shrink the lighthouse to the mandated pixel size then. I didn't realize it was causing such a distraction. Now days I read more than I post anyhow so its only one or two posts a day until then.
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