Using the "Quote" feature
Folks, I spend quite a bit of my valuable moderating time editing posts to remove unnecessary quotes. I do this to keep both myself and you from seeing the same posts over and over again when two m...
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CA Traveler wrote:
Good advice and I limit quotes but unfortunately I have no way of knowing my reply will be next in line or numerous other posts in between. Think of it as a multiiple person phone call and I respond to a comment 15 minutes earlier and hence not context. But I can and do make a educated assumption. :B
Actually, that may be quite rare. I have been posting on RV.net for 23 years and moderating for 22 and have run across that situation only now and then. It did not pose a problem for me to keep things in order and understand the post.
If you are reading a post and then reply to it, your reply should follow immediately after it. Even if there are several posts in between it is very easy to follow the discussion from my experience.
Barney
edit: HA - looks like it just happened to me. BobsYourUncle got in there before my post to you which included the quote. No problem..Easy to follow.:)
He has some good advice concerning this. Use of the Snip can really help with understanding a long conversation. Good example also by including his quote of my opening post and using the snip tool to shorten it up.
