Originally posted by soficrow
The post is admittedly WAYY long - and probably alienated more readers than it hooked - but it didn't break the 'excessive quoting' rule as I
understand it.
It broke something. I wanted to give you a warn and a heads up too, but honestly my brain froze trying to figure out which warn and what to say.
Basically "stop it." I don't know what it is, but stop it.
If you added appropriate quote citations (like this) to indicate your work versus others...
It would help decipher the flow, but as it stands there's more than 500 words in the post and clearly most aren't yours. That's excessive
quotation. But whether that's the best possible warn for the situation or not, it's still approaching "personal publishing" limits just given the
length.
Multi-sourcing makes for good posts though, so please don't get the wrong idea, but some kind of heads-up was duly warranted in this case. It's just
a token point deduction. The main idea is the U2U heads up.
Maybe work on the formatting, and making your own points with less posted excerpts. It's not that big a deal (warn-wise), but your work seems
important and deserves a read. It's really difficult in the current format. That's the main thing.
