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Do you think nested quotes should be automatically removed?
Shlomo:
Perhaps we should set up a poll and vote.
Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks:
Shlomo, I urge you not to change it. The previous way was extremely messy and led to countless messed-up quote posts.
q_q_:
--- Quote from: muman613 on September 21, 2008, 03:59:12 PM ---<snip>
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
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a) You overquoted yourself. You even quoted things about smilies that you didn't refer to
b) The thing about signature size is not because of Megabytes. Or the posting database. It's because it means the threads get longer than they need to be. A thread that should be 3 pages can become 6 in an extreme case.
I also like the message of ascii art over modern images, and modenr images over animated gifs. Technical Minimalism when that is all that is required.
But not at the expense of an elongated sig.
Shlomo himself mentioned a sig length of max 5 lines.
Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks:
But nobody has made an issue of Muman's sig but you.
q_q_:
--- Quote from: C.F. on September 21, 2008, 04:08:06 PM ---Shlomo, I urge you not to change it. The previous way was extremely messy and led to countless messed-up quote posts.
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CF, you never had much need for good quoting because you never really got into any deep discussions.
ps: note your signature. This is the point of this thread.
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