Net54Baseball Posting Pet Peeve - "Quoting" Scans

[barrysloate]

I agree that there is far too much quoting on the board. It's a useful tool for an occasional reference, but it is used on almost every post and is often unnecessary.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

I agree that there is far too much quoting on the board. It's a useful tool for an occasional reference, but it is used on almost every post and is often unnecessary.

Almost every one? Well, maybe for some of us .

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

I agree that there is far too much quoting on the board.

I wholeheartedly agree with Barry!

[barrysloate]

How did I know with absolute certainty that what I said was going to end up five minutes later as part of quote. You guys are predictable!

And I don't even know how to grab a quote.

[Jim VB]

Jon,

You mentioned "4 pages of previous posts". Are you aware that you can "fix" that?

Click "User CP" in the tool bar.

Click "Edit Options."

Scroll down to "Thread Display Options"

You can then adjust the "Number of Posts to Show Per Page."


It adjusts up to 80. Mosts threads never get longer than that. It may take a few seconds longer to load a page, but it greatly reduces threads with multiple pages.

[Jim VB]

Barry,

On the right side, bottom of every post is a "Quote" button.

Click on that and the entire post is in your reply.


You can also edit out certain parts and/or images as long as you leave in the brackets and the words Quote.

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by Jim VB

You can also edit out certain parts and/or images as long as you leave in the brackets and the words Quote.

E.g., Here I have edited down my quote of Jim's post to only highlight the portion I want to share again in my post. My feeling is that many people just click "quote" and then make no effort to edit the original post.

[Matt]

Good point Jon.

[barrysloate]

Thanks Jim, I'll give it a try.

[canjond]

Jim - thanks. I actually have modified my settings. I was more or less referring to the pick-up threads. Those can usually go well beyond 4 pages even with my post count set at 50 per page.