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BarneyS
Explorer III
Sep 17, 2018

Please edit your quotes!

This information is for everybody on here who likes to quote other members when making a post.

Please learn how to edit your quote to take out all the unnecessary information that came before the portion you wish to quote. It is quite rude and irritating to make quote of a quote of a quote of a quote etc. and expect the members and me to scroll down the page to get past all the stuff we have already read.

All that is necessary is to highlight all the print that does not apply and hit the delete key. Do this before you make the post.

I have to spend considerable time editing posts that should not need editing just because the poster does not know how or is too lazy to do the job right. NO LONGER! From here on in, I will delete any post that has too many quotes in it. I am tired of spending half my time editing posts to make them readable. Too many means those posts that have come before, and are not needed to make the reply seem understandable. Use your common sense and you will know how to do it right.

Thank you for your cooperation.:)
Barney
  • What's also annoying is when some people post a quote that includes an OP's long list of photos and you have to scroll waaay down to find that all somebody said was "I agree" or "nice work" or similar. Pfffft...

    The real problem is that this entire forum is decades out of date and needs a major overhaul.
  • Unnecessarily quoting an entire post is sort of the equivalent of Grandma accidentally hitting reply all on a group email. Annoying, but not really that big a deal.

    Back in the listserv days with digest emails it was much more relevant.
  • Many of us have very slow internet , as in cell phone . Some quotes will take several minutes to load out her in the Appalach Forest . The last time that I brought this up several posters said it was my fault and all that I had to do was throw money at the problem , nobody offered to pay for my signal amplifier . So I guess I will suffer or else maybe not buy milk for my twelve children for a week or two !