### Quoting Posts ###

We've talking about this before, and it's still going on. Both newcomers and oldtimers alike are quoting entire long posts and then making a simple reply far too often.

When quoting a post, edit it down to the importat pieces necessary to make your point.

If this continues, the quote button may disappear.

Hehe, I never even used (or saw) the button before... I just use quote /quote

I've been following this rule ever since I first read it. Hope everyone else does to.

Aye Sir! *salutes*

Will spread the word!

Gryff

The quote button can't go! It's a vital and needed to tool in any forum of debating and research. Can't happen

i second that thought, in a debate you need to be able to take direct quotes.

Well, if everyone continues to use the entire post....
Cut&Paste will be your new masters......
muuuwhhhhahahahahahahaa !!!!!

j/k

Hopefully everyone will listen and......................
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I like the quote function my self, and I would really like if people would use it properly. It's annoying as hell when someone quotes HUGE post for no particular reason, or just because he have something to say about 2 or 3 lines of that same post.

Did you get it people? OBEY!!!
Lol@Darklanser
Nice choice of pic.

[Edited on 16-12-2003 by m0rbid]

I had to suppress the urge to quote this entire thread and post a one word response. (Agreed!)

But I did not. I hate reading everything again.

The thing that confuses me is quoting an entire post, and answering inside the quote, yeck. But that is just me.

[Edited on 12/16/03 by crayon]

*sigh*.... more rules from the local gestapo


Increase in order equals escalation in chaos - Kropotkin

NO one forces you to jointhis message board, no one forces you to stay on this message board.
If you don't like the rules, find another forum

Quoting entire posts is annoying, spammy, disruptive and unneccessary. Simple solution to avoid the gestapo is not to do it

Otherwise its a trial by the Oracle followed by a firing squad.

-sigh- Another pointless complaint from the village grouse.

Gestapo huh?

Gestapo
n : the secret state police in Nazi Germany; known for its terrorist methods [syn: Gestapo]
Source: WorldNet, (c) 1997 Princeton University

I take a exceptionally deep offense to being called this. Are you having fun? Did you get your little kicks taking an offensive dig at someone who devotes a portion of every day making sure you can come here and post for free?


Voice_of Doom

[Edited on 17-12-2003 by SkepticOverlord]

Generally it seems to be Newbies and computer-illiterates (aka "Lamers") that do this sort of thing -

I equate it to the mentally-deficient folks who finally get an email account and forward all these sickening sweet inspirational stories and/or bogus virus warning that they come across -

Off with their heads I say!!!

UHHGG!! STAB!!! OWW!! OHHH!!!

enough...enough! The Overlordship and his mindless syncophant 'supermoderators' win. I can take no more U2U's, emails and retribution posts. No more arm twisting, name calling and personal slanders...please.
Don't send me away from the playground...don't tell me to love ATS or leave. And for Christ's sake don't pull out the DICTIONARY on me! :0

Gestapo techniques....what was I thinking


still absolutely free

EDIT: There was no need to quote all that.

[Edited on 17-12-2003 by Kano]

So anyways, this not a new rule, its a reminder of an old one.

[Edited on 17-12-2003 by Kano]

We shouldn't even need a rule for that, people should just use common sense.

Sadly, we need rules...

Yep...thats what those in authority keep telling us.



Me, I prefer to think for myself.

"Authority is an illusion in the mind of govenors" - Lao Tse

Voice...I'm not berating you or anyone else but I ask a few things:
* Did you not agree to the 'Terms and Conditions" of this board when you first signed on as a member of ATS?

* Did you understand that those "Terms and Conditions" are just that: guidlines and 'rules' for being allowed to function on this board?


Again, this was not intended to offend...only to point out that in life, there are "rules" and their is no avoidance of them. One can 'deny' them but that does not remove them from being applied to you or anyone else.


regards
seekerof

[Edited on 17-12-2003 by Seekerof]

Yes,

Especially those quotes in which people quote somebodys orginal text multiple times..

And their own comments, bolds and underlines to them..

are really annoying/confusing..