MeanOldLady
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must you quote the entire fucking post?!
Nothing pisses me off more than people who feel the need to quote someone’s entire freakin’ post in their responses. If you would like to address a specific statement, quote it, and it alone. You do not have to fucking paste the whole damn thing in your response. If you would like to reply to the post overall, just address the person with your questions/comments/misc concerns.
Allow me to demonstrate. Here is an example of someone having a question about a specific remark:
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If you would like to address a specific statemen, quote it, and it alone.
Random dude(tte): But MeanOldLady, what if I want to address the entire post?
Fabulous, that’s a beautiful question which just so happens to bring me to my next point. Now let us suppose someone thinks I totally freaking rule and is also pissed off by people quoting the whole damn post. Observe:
Random dude(tte): MeanOldLady, I totally freaking agree. There’s nothing more irritating than having to flip though 90 pages of quotes just to get to the person’s response. Grrr.
See how that works? Lovely, yes? If you would please refrain from quoting the whole damn post, I’d be appreciative. Thanks.
I just know some wise guy is going to quote this entire post in his reply.
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12-23-2002 06:54 AM
RobertTB
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Re: must you quote the entire fucking post?!
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Originally posted by MeanOldLady
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Good point, and I agree.
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12-23-2002 06:59 AM
MeanOldLady
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Hahahaha! I knew there was going to be a wise guy sooner or later.
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12-23-2002 07:01 AM
SmileyDeath
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Re: must you quote the entire fucking post?!
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Originally posted by MeanOldLady
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Makes sense.
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12-23-2002 07:01 AM
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12-23-2002 07:02 AM
Juniper200
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I think this happens most often when people hit the Quote button under the post in question. It pulls up the whole post in the reply window.
This is not necessarily a problem if someone wants to address a single statement, as they need only cut the lines that don’t apply, leaving the board-produced coding intact.
But if our hypothetical poster wishes to address many statements in turn, more coding is involved. Lots of people are a little hesitant to undertake anything but the most basic vB code. I’d rather read a thread full of full-post quotes than a thread full of broken code that impedes my reading/understanding of the thread.
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12-23-2002 07:03 AM
MeanOldLady
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I would rather look at a lengthy quotes than to see 25 paragraphs quoted. Grrr!
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12-23-2002 07:07 AM
MeanOldLady
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Umm, I have an extra article hanging around there somewhere. I’d rather look at lengthy quotes, that is. Not a lengthy quotes.
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12-23-2002 07:10 AM
SmileyDeath
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I would rather
So would I.
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look at a lengthy quotes than to see 25
I’m looking. Where?
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paragraphs quoted. Grrr!
What would you quote? The current stock market quotes?
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12-23-2002 07:12 AM
MeanOldLady
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This Death guy (notice the selective quoting of your name) is apparently a comedian. Very funny.
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12-23-2002 07:16 AM
welby
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Re: must you quote the entire fucking post?!
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Originally posted by MeanOldLady
Nothing pisses me off more than people who feel the need to quote someone’s entire freakin’ post in their responses. If you would like to address a specific statement, quote it, and it alone. You do not have to fucking paste the whole damn thing in your response. If you would like to reply to the post overall, just address the person with your questions/comments/misc concerns.
Allow me to demonstrate. Here is an example of someone having a question about a specific remark: Random dude(tte): But MeanOldLady, what if I want to address the entire post?
Fabulous, that’s a beautiful question which just so happens to bring me to my next point. Now let us suppose someone thinks I totally freaking rule and is also pissed off by people quoting the whole damn post. Observe:
Random dude(tte): MeanOldLady, I totally freaking agree. There’s nothing more irritating than having to flip though 90 pages of quotes just to get to the person’s response. Grrr.
See how that works? Lovely, yes? If you would please refrain from quoting the whole damn post, I’d be appreciative. Thanks.
I just know some wise guy is going to quote this entire post in his reply.
Well of course someone will, MeanOldLady.
See there? I’ve stooped lower than usual.
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12-23-2002 07:23 AM
elf6c
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Re: must you quote the entire fucking post?!
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Originally posted by MeanOldLady
Nothing pisses me off more than people who feel the need to quote someone’s entire freakin’ post in their responses. If you would like to address a specific statement, quote it, and it alone. You do not have to fucking paste the whole damn thing in your response. If you would like to reply to the post overall, just address the person with your questions/comments/misc concerns.
Allow me to demonstrate. Here is an example of someone having a question about a specific remark: Random dude(tte): But MeanOldLady, what if I want to address the entire post?
Fabulous, that’s a beautiful question which just so happens to bring me to my next point. Now let us suppose someone thinks I totally freaking rule and is also pissed off by people quoting the whole damn post. Observe:
Random dude(tte): MeanOldLady, I totally freaking agree. There’s nothing more irritating than having to flip though 90 pages of quotes just to get to the person’s response. Grrr.
See how that works? Lovely, yes? If you would please refrain from quoting the whole damn post, I’d be appreciative. Thanks.
I just know some wise guy is going to quote this entire post in his reply.
Sometimes you need to do so to reply to things in context, especially on multi-page threads.
What?
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12-23-2002 08:14 AM
Epimetheus
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Re: must you quote the entire fucking post?!
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Originally posted by MeanOldLady
Nothing pisses me off more than people who feel the need to quote someone’s entire freakin’ post in their responses. If you would like to address a specific statement, quote it, and it alone. You do not have to fucking paste the whole damn thing in your response. If you would like to reply to the post overall, just address the person with your questions/comments/misc concerns.
Allow me to demonstrate. Here is an example of someone having a question about a specific remark: Random dude(tte): But MeanOldLady, what if I want to address the entire post?
Fabulous, that’s a beautiful question which just so happens to bring me to my next point. Now let us suppose someone thinks I totally freaking rule and is also pissed off by people quoting the whole damn post. Observe:
Random dude(tte): MeanOldLady, I totally freaking agree. There’s nothing more irritating than having to flip though 90 pages of quotes just to get to the person’s response. Grrr.
See how that works? Lovely, yes? If you would please refrain from quoting the whole damn post, I’d be appreciative. Thanks.
I just know some wise guy is going to quote this entire post in his reply.
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12-23-2002 08:20 AM
Early Out
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MeanOldLady, you will soon regret that you ever started this thread! Every SDMB comedian will be coming out of the woodwork to play with it.
Lottery time! When do you think some kindly mod will come along and close the thread for its own protection?
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12-23-2002 08:52 AM
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12-23-2002 11:03 AM
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Originally posted by The Raven
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12-23-2002 11:10 AM
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the entire fucking post
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12-23-2002 11:55 AM
World Eater
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Sometimes you need to pick the whole post apart.
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12-23-2002 12:02 PM
XJETGIRLX
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Some of the times when I’ve pulled just a particular sentence or point from someone’s post to respond to, I’ve been accused of taking it out of context. I find that I’d rather use the entire statement (or at least use an entire paragraph) so that the poster does not feel as though I’m trying to spin what they said the way I wanted to.
Just my $0.02
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12-23-2002 12:06 PM
cuauhtemoc
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quote:
Originally posted by XJETGIRLX
I’ve pulled just a particular sentence or point from someone’s post to respond to <snip> I find that I’d rather… spin what they said the way I wanted to.
Oh, I completely agree.
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12-23-2002 12:56 PM
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12-23-2002 01:29 PM
lezlers
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For what it’s worth MeanOldLady, I completely agree. It drives me crazy, especially when the post quoted is a particularly long one, a waste of space.
If you’ve got to pick apart the whole post, quote part of the post, then reply, quote another part, then reply to that and so on and so on.
Just wanted Lady to have at least one serious response, because quoting an entire post is annoying as all hell…
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12-23-2002 01:45 PM
blowero
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Yeah, but when I edit down someone’s post, they invariable bitch about “Why did you leave out [such-and-such]”? I did it to save bandwidth, dumbass.
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12-23-2002 04:22 PM
Blalron
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Quoting the entire post is retarded, if it is all in one block. But if you break it up into sentences or paragraphs and do a point by point response, then it’s ok with me.
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12-23-2002 05:01 PM
vanilla
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Originally posted by Blalron
Quoting the entire post is retarded,actually, most retarded folk would not do this if it is all in one block. But if you break it up into sentences or paragraphslike this? and do a point by point response, then it’s ok with me.
good!
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12-23-2002 05:02 PM
vanilla
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actually, i tried to break it up into pieces, but it didn’t work.
I give up. I am so noncomputerically inclined!
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12-23-2002 05:04 PM
featherlou
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I’ve seen threads where the second poster in the thread quoted the entire OP. Sheesh. You know what - we just read it. Give us credit for being able to retain written material for at least that long, wouldja?
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12-23-2002 07:24 PM
MeanOldLady
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Oh wow, I actually got serious responses. Nice to know that not everybody is a comedian.
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12-23-2002 09:21 PM
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Originally posted by Early Out
Every SDMB comedian will be coming out of the woodwork to play with it.
Lottery time! When do you think some kindly mod …
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