Silly irritants

[dtaai-maai]

I know it's a bit silly of me, but I don't understand why so many posters feel it necessary to quote an entire post whenever they want to make a simple response.

Poster A writes 8 paragraphs on whatever. Poster B then quotes the whole lot and says no more than "I agree". And an entire page has gone.



1. Mods apologies if this is in the wrong place.
2. Anyone responding had better not quote me in full!

[Pleng]

[quote="dtaai-maai"]I know it's a bit silly of me, but I don't understand why so many posters feel it necessary to quote an entire post whenever they want to make a simple response.

Poster A writes 8 paragraphs on whatever. Poster B then quotes the whole lot and says no more than "I agree". And an entire page has gone.



1. Mods apologies if this is in the wrong place.
2. Anyone responding had better not quote me in full!



My pet hate is when people stuff up the quotes

[PeteC]

I agree with DTM. Just take the applicable portion of the thread you want to comment on, or just use an upward arrow (^) to indicate you're talking about above. Rarely necessary to quote the entire previous post. You can do an entire quote then go in and delete everything that doesn't apply to your reply. I do that all the time. Pete

[BaaBaa.]

I know it's a bit silly of me, but I don't understand why so many posters feel it necessary to quote an entire post whenever they want to make a simple response.

Poster A writes 8 paragraphs on whatever. Poster B then quotes the whole lot and says no more than "I agree". And an entire page has gone.



1. Mods apologies if this is in the wrong place.
2. Anyone responding had better not quote me in full!



My pet hate is when people stuff up the quotes

Agreed.

[dtaai-maai]

^^Twerp!

[richard]

I agree with most of what has been said but you are in danger of scaring people off the forum if you expect ALL posters to be totally forum literate and also people post in various states. Late night when pissed, early morning when bleary eyed, angry or just plain over eager to put a point across without checking.

The so called super perfectionists that now seem to try and dominate the forum, assume ALL should be the same and will deter a lot of posters from posting their views.

Perhaps Admin and the mods will insist on new members not only reading the starter back but participate in a set of exams to ascertain whether they are suitable to join the elitist ranks of KIA's

I'm still piss poor at embedding utube items but I'll keep trying. No bullsh1t bully is going to push me back into my Pennine cave

On a positive note maybe in line with a starter pack a new pack advising 'best practise and how to do' should be generated and made easily available to all and sundry

[buksida]

Perhaps Admin and the mods will insist on new members not only reading the starter back but participate in a set of exams to ascertain whether they are suitable to join the elitist ranks of KIA's

On a positive note maybe in line with a starter pack a new pack advising 'best practise and how to do' should be generated and made easily available to all and sundry

No need for the facetiousness richard.

As to your second point, its just a piece of software, the instructions can be found here: faq.php

The problem is, as with most things, people don't bother to read the guides, rules and instructions because they are ... well ... people ... and not machines.