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Old 05-21-2009, 01:25 PM
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Context is being lost when quoting someone who quoted someone else... can someone flip the switch on nested quotes please?
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That would be a PITA to sift through and a waste of space too. Copy and paste the initail comments then wrap quotes ( the li'l quote button at the top there when your typing your post) around it, it's faster.
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That would be a PITA to sift through and a waste of space too. Copy and paste the initail comments then wrap quotes ( the li'l quote button at the top there when your typing your post) around it, it's faster.
I'm able to do nested quotes, in the Cadet Forum. Then again, maybe having mod abilities and the capability to copy the original post (including the quotes there) then wrap that with quotes might have something to do with it...
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That would be a PITA to sift through and a waste of space too. Copy and paste the initail comments then wrap quotes ( the li'l quote button at the top there when your typing your post) around it, it's faster.
When one hits quote, everything's done. How is adding a step to that faster?

Just so I understand what you're saying, you don't think it would be a good idea to allow nested quotes because its use may inconvenience people by allowing them to follow a conversation via just one post?

And your solution is to manually perform the the function that the quote button already does for you?

How 1994 of you...
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How 1994 of you...
Don't feel too bad Smiles - this one told me I was right out of 1996.
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Don't feel too bad Smiles - this one told me I was right out of 1996.
He's like a walking almanac of the Intarwebs development timeline.


You love me already... you know you do.

This has been addressed, btw, so a thread lock would not be inappropriate.
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Yeah, you've grown on me kinda like a fungus.
Ahhh... you've been on a float.

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Along with all the vomit, urine, and feces.

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When one hits quote, everything's done. How is adding a step to that faster?

Just so I understand what you're saying, you don't think it would be a good idea to allow nested quotes because its use may inconvenience people by allowing them to follow a conversation via just one post?

And your solution is to manually perform the the function that the quote button already does for you?

How 1994 of you...
It was more along the lines of...IF you really have to quote the last ten replies!! It's not really that hard, really! More times than not, the person before ya already quoted the guy before him, who quoted the guy before him, who quoted another guy before...see the pattern? Copy n paste, there's no reason to have it nest every time, especially when folks usually pick out a sentence or two.

Maybe we should post with smaller words and shorter instructions, knowing that men can't follow any given instructions or ask even for directions...would that help your prehistoric thought process? I mean honestly, how many dang posts are ya gonna quote or actually use each time ya post? By the time you're done, we will have skipped over an entire page that we already read a couple pages back so you could nest quote! Hmmm.....

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Maybe we should post with smaller words and shorter instructions, knowing that men can't follow any given instructions or ask even for directions...
I resent that remark!

I actually read the directions
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