The Flat Earth Society
The Flat Earth Society => Suggestions & Concerns => Topic started by: timterroo on August 08, 2018, 10:04:56 PM
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It would be nice to have a limit to how many quotes can be requoted in a single quote. When 5 people quote a previous post who quoted a previous post and so on, it gets repetitive and unreadable.
Maybe quotes should be limited to just the previous post or two?
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You can eliminate stake quotes from your post and stop the insanity yourself. No need for adults to intervene for you!
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Man are you serious?
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Yes.
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OK, except that I have no control over what others quote. It's a minor annoyance, yes, but not one deserving of your childish remarks.
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It's annoying to see posts with quotes that haven't been properly trimmed, yes, but limiting the number of quotes in a post would hurt discussions overall. Sometimes we split up long quotes so that we can respond to separate points individually. Sometimes we respond to multiple posts within a single post, which is vastly preferable to encouraging nonsense like this (https://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=10144.msg159098#msg159098). And sometimes we deliberately start quote pyramids in the lower forums for fun or to emphasize the original post.
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Ok, perhaps put something in the wiki or rules of engagement to help encourage users to moderate their quotes? Or don't, it really won't make a huge difference either way. Just a suggestion, not a debate fellas.
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The point is that not everything requires intervention by kids or admins. You have solutions available to you, and since there are a number of differing scenarios where you may, or may not want a quote tree, it doesn’t seem effective to get all bureaucratic about it.
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OK, except that I have no control over what others quote.
Perhaps not, but you do have control over how much of their quotes that you include in your quotes.