# "Multi quote this message" **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 13, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote-this-message/467785 "2008-10-13T22:34:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote-this-message/467785/4 "2008-10-13T22:48:31Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Click it on a few messages, and then hit “quote” on one and see what happens. > [@straight dope archives](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-archives/467533/7): > > No need to apologise for limited resources. Well, evidently, some weeks ago jdavis must have spent time to redesign the archive page. (A dynamically generated multipage index, even.) - And since then, it doesn’t get linked to from where people can easily find it! (Like it used to be.) Talk about priorities… > > I mean, it’s not like something on Cecil Adams’ web presence needs to get straightened out - it’s more like a whole chunk of it has broken off. Any idea of the visitor attraction, visitor retention, and publicity value of an archive of open browsable content? > > Are you sure that making the list of available columns a little less obvious wasn’t a direct decision from higher up, to make us buy more books? Just askin’… I find it hard to believe that the owners would let the _work schedule of their technical staff_ determine the (non)visibility of 99% of their site’s permanent content. So, you’re saying, as soon as someone finds the time to edit the page, a browsable list of previous columns will be one click away from the main page again? Well, something happened, but I’m not sure what. I don’t know where that second quote came from, I’ve never seen it before. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-quote-this-message/467785)._