[RANT] Quoting *ENTIRE* Posts (Including PHOTOS!) When Replying...

[Patriot]

Originally Posted by saabluster

I do that a lot. As long as you have your response to the respective parties directly after their quote it is quite easy to follow. I reason is that I see no need to clutter up my sales thread with more posts than necessary. They are big enough as is.

Ditto, this is very simple, logical and orderly. The other way is excessive, inefficient and can be a bit annoying.


With regards to spelling, typo's, and grammar, the only time I find this annoying is when I do it myself, and that's far too often... If I can even compose anything of communicative value I feel like I got off lucky.

[Th232]

Originally Posted by TakeTheActive

Reply to MULTIPLE posters in *ONE* reply?

• How does that make any sense?
  .
• How many current CPF Users follow that protocol?

FWIW, I also do that. It's faster and more efficient. E.g:

*Click the + button next to the quote button for all relevant quotes*
*Hit the Quote button on the last one*
*Type out all replies as needed*
*Post*

As opposed to:
*Hit Quote on the first post I want to reply to*
*Type out reply*
*Post*
*Hit Quote on the second post I want to reply to*
*Type out reply*
*Post*
*Hit Quote on the third post I want to reply to*
*Type out reply*
*Post*
...
Ad nauseam.

Or if I'm quoting one person to reply to another person (usually when the questioner hasn't seen the answer a few posts above), I'd have to go:
*Hit Quote button on the post with the answer*
*Copy the quoted info*
*Go back to the thread*
*Hit Quote on the post with the question*
*Paste the quote*
*Post*

Instead, I just go:
*Hit + button on one post*
*Hit Quote button on the other post*
*Type/do what I need to*
*Post*

[Niteowl]

Originally Posted by Greta

Well... it *IS* the reason why there is a seperate little button just for that purpose...........

It took five years, but i finally figured out how to employ that "separate little button"!.

Originally Posted by nbp

.......Some valid points, but maybe they could have been expressed in a less lectury way........(Yep, just made up that word, 'lectury'..........

Originally Posted by LuxLuthor

You mispelled lecturey.

I believe it would be spelled "lectuary".

Or even better for the context it was used in, "lectuarian"

[Greta]

Originally Posted by Niteowl

It took five years, but i finally figured out how to employ that "separate little button"!.





I believe it would be spelled "lectuary".

Or even better for the context it was used in, "lectuarian"

Oh now you're just showing off!

[jtr1962]

Originally Posted by Niteowl

It took five years, but i finally figured out how to employ that "separate little button"!.

I didn't even know what that button was for until now! When I replied to multiple posters in one reply, I would hit the quote button for each poster in separate browser windows, write each reply, and then copy and paste all the posts into a single post. The multi-quote button makes this so much easier.

Looks like you learn something new every day. Cool!

[DM51]

I hope he doesn't mean lechery

[nbp]

Nice try! Those aren't words either.

They certainly aren't in the dictionary, and googling them brings up YOUR post here, hehehe....

Lectury is a made up adverb, and as the creator of the word, I have decided I don't like your spelling... And lectuarian is not a word either, however lecturer is in fact a word, if you wanted to use it in that way.

[Vesper]

Originally Posted by TakeTheActive

[OPINION]

1. Not everyone subscribes to HIGH-SPEED BROADBAND!
   • Some folks have 768/384 DSL!
   • Some folks have 56K DIAL-UP!!!
   Is it ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE to YOUR reply that they re-read the *ENTIRE* OP (or the post that you're replying to)?
   .
2. If you're Post #2, replying to Post #1, everyone already KNOWS what you're replying to.
   .
3. If you're Post #N, replying to Post #<N, *PLEASE* only QUOTE what's necessary to retain the context of what you're replying to.
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4. If *ANY* of the posts in the thread contain PHOTOS, unless your reply references something in SOME PARTICULAR PHOTO, *PLEASE* consider the DIAL-UP/ DSL / ADMIN folks when QUOTing (i.e. Remove the PHOTOS from your QUOTE!).
   .
5. The Admin(s) of this forum have to provide Hard Disk Space ($$$) to store these replies (almost) *FOREVER*!

Thanks, in advance, for your consideration / cooperation!

[/OPINION]

Disclaimer: I've been around computers since the days of 88K 5¼" and 241K 8" floppies and I personally value / worry about how disk space is utilized (and NOT wasted!).

[I came to the light...]

I agree. Even for users with fast connections it cleans up the page a lot.

Just FYI, quoted images are not actually loaded twice - but I still edit them to save space.

[Beamhead]

Originally Posted by DM51

I hope he doesn't mean lechery

Wow this is the most replied to Q/P/S thread in the history of CPF.

I think the OP suffers from lackowidthitus or perhaps broadband envy.
In all seriuosness, TakeTheActive, we are just having a little harmless fun, welcome to CPF and enjoy.

[LuxLuthor]

Originally Posted by Greta

Quite a few! Step out of the Electronics forum once in awhile and take a look around some of the other forums. LOTS of really smart members here on CPF!

I wish the quote within a quote like you can do in PM's would be an easier option to choose....but I can live with it this way.

[TooManyGizmos]

You are just a dang showoff .... Lux

[TakeTheActive]

Originally Posted by Beamhead

...I think the OP suffers from lackowidthitus or perhaps broadband envy...

More like:

1. lackowidthitus
2. lackocpuprocessorspeeditus
3. lackocomputermemoryitus
4. lackomoneyitus
5. lackoenergyitus
6. etc...

I had a difficult enough time retiring my 'working perfectly fine' CP/M computers w/8" HDDs and floppies, so now I'm stretching as much life as possible out of my 24x7 Toshiba 550CDT laptop (P266, 160MB RAM, 4GB HDD, 1024x768, Win98SE).

I love Firefox and TABs (have ~12-36 open at any time!) and can usually go several days without a reboot UNLESS I hit a page with too many photos, scripts, flash, etc... which immediately eats up my cache and throws the laptop into 'HDD Thrashing' mode. Then, I just KILL Firefox (via Process Explorer - *LOVE* those Sysinternals Utils!), run 'Recover Memory Now' on Cacheman and restart Firefox with 'Restore Crashed Session'. Too bad it takes ~10-20 minutes though (lackocpuprocessorspeeditus & toomuchcrapgoingonbehindthescenesitus).

I *DO* have faster destops, down in the (unheated / unair-conditioned) basement, but the upstairs den is much more convenient. HAD a desktop up here a while back BUT (short version) health problems, HDD crashes, lack-of-energyitus, etc... hinder it's repair.

BTW, I found a situation where I could use 'Multi-QUOTE' today though...

Best D cells for C.Crane radio!

[jtr1962]

Originally Posted by TakeTheActive

I had a difficult enough time retiring my 'working perfectly fine' CP/M computers w/8" HDDs and floppies, so now I'm stretching as much life as possible out of my 24x7 Toshiba 550CDT laptop (P266, 160MB RAM, 4GB HDD, 1024x768, Win98SE).

Wow, and I thought I was using an old system ( AMD XP 3200, 3 GB RAM, 200 GB HDD, GeForce 6200 video). Then again, I have a pretty nice collection of old computers I rehabilitated around the house, including a 40 MHz 386 with a whopping 32 MB of RAM right next to my monitor. I no longer use it, but it makes a nice conversation piece. Downstairs I have an 8086 complete with two 20 MB (not, that's not a typo) 5.25" HDDs, DOS 5.1, and a whole 640K of RAM! Again, never used any more but interesting nevertheless. Any time I think my main PC is getting long in the tooth, I just turn on one my older machines until the feeling passes.

[Beamhead]

Originally Posted by TakeTheActive

BTW, I found a situation where I could use 'Multi-QUOTE' today though...

Glad you did, I have a few old timer computers here that all run fine in their respective era parameters but fail by todays so I feel ya.

[TakeTheActive]

Originally Posted by Patriot

Often the people quoting photo rows are kinda new so I just leave a friendly post asking them if they wouldn't mind editing their post. If I happen to come back in 24 hours and find that they haven't, then I send them a friendly PM. I find that folks are usually responsive if you don't act like a ramrod. (not saying any has, just speaking generally).

Historically, I've never been very good at being 'diplomatic'. I consider myself VERY LOGICAL and thus, I just simply reply with the 'OBVIOUS' answer (ala Becker, House, Spock, etc...). So, I can (kinda) understand how my first attempt failed (Post #31 (PRETTY CLUMSY! )

Then, I came across this recent thread by batmanacw: Cost per lumen/hr.

1. Post #4 (QUOTING *ALL* of Post #3)
2. Post #11 (QUOTING *ALL* of Post #10)
3. Post #13 (QUOTING *ALL* of Post #12 *HUGE*)

...and my 'inner self' is SCREAMING *SAY SOMETHING*, but my 'try to be nice' side can't come up with anything DIPLOMATIC.

It appears that fellow CPF member Linger may also share in my goal, (Post #95), but, IMHO, without QUOTING at least a portion of the "OFFENDER's" OP, there's no real CONNECTION for the "OFFENDER" to actually KNOW who we're referring to. To-date, his attempt also failed.

Patriot, would you please help me out here with some examples? TIA!

On the one hand, maybe the owners of this wonderful place don't care. And, on the other hand, see Post #1...

P.S. Yeah, I know - SHUT UP AND STOP WASTING EVERYONE'S TIME! But I also think about etiquette, courtesy, 'the way I was brought up', WASTED RESOURCES, etc... That's why I recently added the 2nd LINK to my Sig Line: How to Ask Questions " The Smart Way "

Thanks!

[Greta]

Originally Posted by TakeTheActive

... On the one hand, maybe the owners of this wonderful place don't care. ...

TTA... our esteemed Administrator, Empath, has a wonderful saying about "herding cats". Google it and do some reading. Perhaps then you will understand...

[TakeTheActive]

Originally Posted by Greta

TTA... our esteemed Administrator, Empath, has a wonderful saying about "herding cats". Google it and do some reading. Perhaps then you will understand...

I GOOGLE'd "Herding cats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" and even before I read any LINKs, my first thoughts were:

Cats do whatever THEY want to do, regardless.

After I read one LINK, I thought of:

The '80/20' Rule.

BTW, is your NEW AVATAR an indicator to an upcoming PLAYBOY CENTERFOLD?

[deranged_coder]

Originally Posted by TakeTheActive

I *DO* have faster destops, down in the (unheated / unair-conditioned) basement, but the upstairs den is much more convenient. HAD a desktop up here a while back BUT (short version) health problems, HDD crashes, lack-of-energyitus, etc... hinder it's repair.

Curious, do you have a LAN at home? If yes, have you tried using your laptop to remote desktop into your faster desktop in the basement? That way you can still leverage the better speed and power of your desktop but have the convenience of a laptop.

I do this a lot at work (my development environment sits in a virtual machine running on a remote server in our datacenter, I use remote desktop to remotely connect to it so the servers do all the real processing and my laptop or desktop terminal acts simply as an I/O device) and it works just fine.

[PeAK]

Originally Posted by TakeTheActive

... I'm stretching as much life as possible out of my 24x7 Toshiba 550CDT laptop (P266, 160MB RAM, 4GB HDD, 1024x768, Win98SE).

I love Firefox and TABs (have ~12-36 open at any time!) and can usually go several days without a reboot UNLESS I hit a page with too many photos, scripts, flash, etc... which immediately eats up my cache and throws the laptop into 'HDD Thrashing' mode. .
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.
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Hey Take,
Do yourself a favour and add in the following extension/plug-in to Firefox called "ImgLikeOpera".
For dialup users it is essential that images not be loaded automatically, and instead, have the user "right click" the image outline to "Load Image". You be amazed by how fast this vBulletin stuff works when you only stream in text.

...fast as broadband on dialup,
PeAK