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Do you think nested quotes should be automatically removed?
q_q_:
--- Quote from: cjd on September 21, 2008, 02:24:28 PM ---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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sounds good
Kahane-Was-Right BT:
--- 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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I agree with you pheasant.
Shlomo:
They are easy to change.
Click on "USER CP" on the top
Go to "Look & Layout Options"
Change "Current Smiley Set" to whatever you like the most.
muman613:
--- Quote from: q_q_ on September 21, 2008, 02:10:49 PM ---
--- 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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q_q_,
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I avoid confrontation when no confrontation is required. Of course there is a time to stand up for what is right. But I am surprised you are so concerned with signatures. I do not know the internals of the forum code but I would be willing to bet that a signature does not take up space in the database like quoting did. I suspect this because when I change my signature in the control panel, it changes in all posts I make. This leads me to suspect that the signatures are output by the PHP code which sends the HTML to the browser. I have written some PHP code of my own and know how this works.
So if it is not that it takes up space in the posting database why should we be so worried about how big our signature is? And I will agree with you that sometimes peoples signatures are too big. My sig at 13 lines is not so bad. I think the ASCII art sends a message of its own. In this day and age when everything is all graphics I want to say that ASCII art is still alive :)
I will certainly take your suggestion to moderate when people over-use the quoting feature and suggest that the poster modify their post to reduce the verbiage.
Thank you,
muman613
Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks:
I have to disagree with you, q_q. This new feature saves a ton of time and effort and makes it harder to accidentally mistype a quoting posts.
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