Please quote the post you reply too!

[Neb]

Many of you that I have learned to know and love are guilty!

Guilty of of not quoting the post you are replying too.

Bad bad bad.

You are introducing chaos into the conversation forcing us to to do the jig saw puzzle... to what post does that reply connect with?

Quoting precious posts gives others context which is very helpful.
.
Do your brothers and sisters a favor by providing a context, please.

Could that rule be codified in the forums guidelines?

Nuff said.

Ben

 

[Neb]

Many of you that I have learned to know and love are guilty!

Guilty of of not quoting the post you are replying too.

Bad bad bad.

You are introducing chaos into the conversation forcing us to to do the jig saw puzzle... to what post does that reply connect with?

Quoting precious posts gives others context which is very helpful.
.
Do your brothers and sisters a favor by providing a context, please.

Could that rule be codified in the forums guidelines?

Nuff said.

Ben

Hit the"reply" button before posting.

Thank you in advance.

Ben

 

[LadyLocust]

Many of you that I have learned to know and love are guilty!

Guilty of of not quoting the post you are replying too.

Bad bad bad.

You are introducing chaos into the conversation forcing us to to do the jig saw puzzle... to what post does that reply connect with?

Quoting precious posts gives others context which is very helpful.
.
Do your brothers and sisters a favor by providing a context, please.

Could that rule be codified in the forums guidelines?

Nuff said.

Ben

 

[Amish Heart]

I'm sure you're not talking about me
Nope.

 

[Peanut]

I'm bad about not doing it when I post right after the one I'm referencing. Sort of obvious then or when replying to the OP. Sometimes I reply not realizing another member posted. I'll go back now and edit my post to include the quote.

 

[Neb]

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And that is just it! Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. What are you talking about?

Ben

 

[Neb]

I'm sure you're not talking about me
Nope.

Who are you talking to?

Ben

 

[Haertig]

Hit the"reply" button before posting.

If anyone finds an easy way to quote a quote chain, let me know. No, I don't want to quote the entire thread, just sometimes person B will respond to person A, and I as person C wants to respond and show both B's and A's quotes.

I know how to do this manually by inserting my own quote tags, I was just hoping for an easier way using the built-in quote function of the forum. Every time I try it, it only quotes the second person, leaving out the first.

I want an easy way to make quote chains like this:
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You're a genius!

No, you're a genius.

You're BOTH geniuses!

I do the above by manually typing in this:

You can get Person B's response with the built-in quoting mechanism, but you have to manually hack in Person A's text by typing in your own quote tags. There's got to be something in the built-in quoting mechanism that I'm missing that has me doing this manually.

 

[Supervisor42]

Well, that post about the nano-chucks really got me angry!
It's hard to believe some of the people here would use them on animals.
The other guy only uses slim-switches on his critters and that must be much more humane.
Just how cruel are you?
What do you use?

This is what we hear sometimes.
Some people never hit 'reply' to a post.

 

[Haertig]

Actually, I got my manually hacked in quote chain wrong (one of the problems of doing it manually ... ineptitude on my part!)

It should have been:

You're a genius!

No, you're a genius.

You two may both be geniuses, but I'm an idiot!

 

[JustMe]

If anyone finds an easy way to quote a quote chain, let me know. No, I don't want to quote the entire thread, just sometimes person B will respond to person A, and I as person C wants to respond and show both B's and A's quotes.

I know how to do this manually by inserting my own quote tags, I was just hoping for an easier way using the built-in quote function of the forum. Every time I try it, it only quotes the second person, leaving out the first.

I want an easy way to make quote chains like this:
------

You're BOTH geniuses!

I do the above by manually typing in this:

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You can get Person B's response with the built-in quoting mechanism, but you have to manually hack in Person A's text by typing in your own quote tags. There's got to be something in the built-in quoting mechanism that I'm missing that has me doing this manually.

I don't know if you'd really like that........to be able to keep a chain going. And certainly not the people in the chain.

What I mean to say or to give you an example of why it isn't a good idea........I am on another forum that the quotes would chain back to the first person. If the chain is only 2 or 3 comments linked, isn't too bad, but the chain can go back 10 or 20 links and if different people were looped into that long of a chain. everybody keeps getting notifications of being quoted........even if they are no longer the ones being responded too. Does that make sense???

It would really blow up every ones notifications for a conversation they are no longer a part of.

 

[Haertig]

If the chain is only 2 or 3 comments linked, isn't too bad, but the chain can go back 10 or 20 links

Which is why I said:

I don't want to quote the entire thread, just sometimes person B will respond to person A, and I as person C wants to respond and show both B's and A's quotes

You have to use common sense in what you are quoting. You don't quote everything. You will note in this post you are reading right now, I only quoted a small portion of your post to give context to my response. I did not quote your entire post (as you did for mine). Quoting the entire post brings in a lot of stuff that is not relevant to the context you are trying to provide. And it actually makes it harder for the readers. For one, you usually have to click on that "Click to expand..." text to see the entire quoted post. And then, after doing that, you often have to search through a long quotation to pick out the part that's being referred to.

So I say, only quote the minimum amount you need to provide context. Only very rarely is that the entire post. If the original post made multiple points that you want to respond to individually, quote a small part and respond to that. Then quote a different small part and respond to that. Quoting an entire glob of 25 points, and then providing 25 responses in a separate glob doesn't help anybody sort things out.

Most certainly one should never quote the entirety of a large quote chain as you were talking about. That would be like quoting an entire thread. I was not suggesting that anyone do that.

 

[JustMe]

Which is why I said:

You have to use common sense in what you are quoting. You don't quote everything. You will note in this post you are reading right now, I only quoted a small portion of your post to give context to my response. I did not quote your entire post (as you did for mine). Quoting the entire post brings in a lot of stuff that is not relevant to the context you are trying to provide. And it actually makes it harder for the readers. For one, you usually have to click on that "Click to expand..." text to see the entire quoted post. And then, after doing that, you often have to search through a long quotation to pick out the part that's being referred to.

So I say, only quote the minimum amount you need to provide context. Only very rarely is that the entire post. If the original post made multiple points that you want to respond to individually, quote a small part and respond to that. Then quote a different small part and respond to that. Quoting an entire glob of 25 points, and then providing 25 responses in a separate glob doesn't help anybody sort things out.

Most certainly one should never quote the entirety of a large quote chain as you were talking about. That would be like quoting an entire thread. I was not suggesting that anyone do that.

My mistake, sorry

 

[joel]

My mistake, sorry

I learned something too.
Now if I can remember it.

 

[Curmudgeon]

If anyone finds an easy way to quote a quote chain, let me know. No, I don't want to quote the entire thread, just sometimes person B will respond to person A, and I as person C wants to respond and show both B's and A's quotes

Click +Quote under person A, click +Quote under person B.

When you get to the reply box click 'insert quotes'...................then respond.

 

[Curmudgeon]

For instance:

If anyone finds an easy way to quote a quote chain, let me know. No, I don't want to quote the entire thread, just sometimes person B will respond to person A, and I as person C wants to respond and show both B's and A's quotes.

Click +Quote under person A, click +Quote under person B.

When you get to the reply box click 'insert quotes'...................then respond.

Does that make sense, or is that not what you are trying to do?

 

[Morgan101]

Guilty as charged. Yes sir. Will do.

 

[phideaux]

I never reply to ANYONE.

I just say stuff.

Jim

 

[Haertig]

This is a perfect example of where I would want to quote a chain. Curmudgeon provided an answer, but that answer would not make sense to others except in the context of my question (which Curmudgeon correctly quoted as would be expected). So Curmudgeon's reply is understandable because he took the time to quote relevant context (my original question). Also note that he only quoted my question to give context, he did not quote my entire original post that contained a lot of other garbage besides the specific question he was responding to. So Curmudgeon gets a thumbs up for excellent quoting behavior.

Now I am responding to Curmudgeon's answer to my original question. And in this case it makes sense to quote both Curmudgeon's answer and my original question (the "chain of quotes" I have spoken of). Note that at the top of this post it appears that I have kind of quoted this chain. But that's a screenshot, not an actual quote. If you hover your mouse over it, it's actually an image. I put it there just as an example of where you might want to quote a chain rather than just the last post in that chain.

Now, on to my question for Curmudgeon. You said "Click +Quote under person A, click +Quote under person B." I don't see how you do that. If I put my mouse over what person A said ("If anyone finds an easy way...") and click +Quote, that quotes person B's reply ("Click +Quote..."). Not what I intended. If I continue on following the instructions and attempt to click +Quote under person B, I find that there is NOT a +Quote button. There is a -Quote button. That deletes the original quote.

So I'm not following exactly what Curmudgeon is telling me to do. There also could be differences in our computer setups, although I doubt that would cause this apparent different functionality. I am running the Chromium browser (not Chrome, but Chromium - for all practical purposes these are mostly the same however) on a Linux system. Shouldn't matter that I'm on Linux. A browser is a browser, no matter if it's running on Linux, Windows, iOS or Android.

 

[Curmudgeon]

So I'm not following exactly what Curmudgeon is telling me to do. There also could be differences in our computer setups, although I doubt that would cause this apparent different functionality. I am running the Chromium browser (not Chrome, but Chromium - for all practical purposes these are mostly the same however) on a Linux system. Shouldn't matter that I'm on Linux. A browser is a browser, no matter if it's running on Linux, Windows, iOS or Android.

If you highlight the text you want to quote within the post you should see an +Quote / Reply. So you hold down the left mouse button>drag to highlight text>release mouse button>+Quote / Reply should pop up at the end of the highlighted text. The word reply will have a reverse curved arrow in front of it.

The forum software will generate this, so it should not matter what software, browser etc that you are using.

In regards to what you are asking you would click on +Quote, then move to the next text you want to quote, rinse and repeat until you have what you need. This allows you to quote only the text you are commenting to. So no need to quote the whole post then highlight and delete what you don't want.

I hope I explained that so it makes sense, lol.

 

[Curmudgeon]

This is an example of what you can do, I just picked random lines from your post for visual effect. You can do this for person A, then move to person B and C and so forth. So you can pick text out of posts in succession and when you "insert quotes" they will appear in succession.

If anyone finds an easy way to quote a quote chain, let me know. No, I don't want to quote the entire thread, just sometimes person B will respond to person A, and I as person C wants to respond and show both B's and A's quotes.

This is a perfect example of where I would want to quote a chain.

besides the specific question he was responding to

than just the last post in that chain.

So I'm not following exactly what Curmudgeon is telling me to do.

 

[Curmudgeon]

I want an easy way to make quote chains like this:
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In this case, you can highlight text like I mention. So you would highlight the text from person A that you want to single out and click reply, this puts your post in the post box. Then you put your cursor INSIDE the text that you quoted behind the last word in the text, and click to give it position, then go up and highlight the other text and click reply, it SHOULD put the quote within the quote.

I will try here:

If you highlight the text you want to quote

This is an example of what you can do

 

[Haertig]

I can take multiple quotes from the most recent post in a chain, but I cannot seem to quote something that was itself quoted in that most recent post. In the example (screenshot) below, I want to quote the text that is highlighted. I cannot find a way to do that using the forum quoting mechanism. However, I can use a mouse right-click to do copy/paste type of stuff. That's what I've been doing in the past, what I've been calling the "manual method". "Manual", because I have to paste it and then add my own quote tags around it so I can attribute it to the correct poster (myself, in this example).

 

[Haertig]

In this case, you can highlight text like I mention.

I will play with this idea some more after I grab a bite to eat. You and I posted at the same time immediately above, so I hadn't seen your most recent post while I was typing mine.

 

[Curmudgeon]

I can take multiple quotes from the most recent post in a chain, but I cannot seem to quote something that was itself quoted in that most recent post. In the example (screenshot) below, I want to quote the text that is highlighted. I cannot find a way to do that using the forum quoting mechanism. However, I can use a mouse right-click to do copy/paste type of stuff. That's what I've been doing in the past, what I've been calling the "manual method". "Manual", because I have to paste it and then add my own quote tags around it so I can attribute it to the correct poster (myself, in this example).

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In that case you will likely have to click the up arrow to go to the actual post and 'quote' it.

 

[Haertig]

In that case you will likely have to click the up arrow to go to the actual post and 'quote' it.

That's what I have found to be the case. Or, alternately, highlight the text, use the operating systems copy/paste mechanism, then manually add your own quote tags. This latter (alternate) is what I've been doing. There may not be a way to do it in one step only using with the forums quoting mechanism.

 

[Haertig]

Now, after that little side trip I started about chain quoting, ... back to Neb's original request: "Quote the post that you are replying to." Yes, do that! Providing context helps other readers greatly.

 

[dademoss]

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Like, or like not, I do not care.

 

[Neb]

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Like, or like not, I do not care.

Fair enough.

I m am just trying to understand were each post belongs on context.

Sometime I feel I am trying to do a jig saw puzzle with a razor blade. The picture may not turn out as originally intended.

Ben

 

[dademoss]

Fair enough.

I m am just trying to understand were each post belongs on context.

Sometime I feel I am trying to do a jig saw puzzle with a razor blade. The picture may not turn out as originally intended.

Ben

A bandsaw is easier