Originally Posted by
StanleyB
I can't help noticing the excessive use of quotes, some of them even quoting the whole of a lengthy reply. on many occasions. Sometimes the quotation is a follow up to a comment posted just above the reply. This is making for some senseless double reading, and in most cases a guess in identifying the key parts the quote is supposed to encompass.
There are no doubt genuine reason why quotes have to be used, but its liberal use for no apparent reason is distracting IMHO. I was wondering if many share my frustration with this trend, and if so, how the reading experience can be improved without too much hassle? Is there a quotation hiding feature anyone has ever come across?
Originally Posted by
Tim
I share your pain Stan, I often edit a quoted post just to include the sentence or few words I am referring too and struggle to understand why folk don't do the same. My pet hate is a post containing a lot of pictures which gets duplicated - that's just mad. I have even gone as far as resizing pictures if their reuse is essential in a quoted post!
When a large post gets duplicated and dissected with each passage repeated and replied too, I just don't bother to read it - can't be arsed.
Originally Posted by
YNWaN
Yes Stan, I share your irritation with regard to the needless quotation of posts (particularly lengthy ones) - but then, I think that even the most generous would say that I am easily irritated.
And what about multi-quote ?
Joke apart, quoting is important in a thread that gets updated fast : it helps understanding who's answering to whom.
Also helps keeping the question & answer (or argument & counter-) in one post, without having to look for posts on previous pages.
In my opinion, of course.
Pan Metron Ariston (all good things should be used in moderation)
Dimitri.
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