Forum Suggestions & User Assistance - Have quotes include link to orig. post

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donrhummy
04-16-07, 04:08 PM
Frequently when someone's quoting another poster, they respond to a vague quote and it's hard to know what they're responding to. For example:

** EXAMPLE POST **

That is flat out wrong!

Oh yeah, I've tried it myself and that's completely wrong.
** END EXAMPLE **

In this case, we have no idea what's "wrong." We'd have to go back through a potentially 6-page thread to find an obscure post that's being quoted before we can decide if we agree/disagree with them.

Just a suggestion... :)

Michel Gagnon
04-16-07, 08:32 PM
It would be good sometimes.

But I have seen it on a few other forums and it quickly gets tiring. You get a guy quoting one of my page-long messages and adding one or two blurbs (Me too!), then somebody quoting the quote and second-level quote and adding a precision and... You see the problem. Threads would be even longer.
donrhummy
04-16-07, 09:02 PM
It would be good sometimes.

But I have seen it on a few other forums and it quickly gets tiring. You get a guy quoting one of my page-long messages and adding one or two blurbs (Me too!), then somebody quoting the quote and second-level quote and adding a precision and... You see the problem. Threads would be even longer.


??? I fail to see how this feature causes that. People quote others here all the time from many different pages in multiple page threads. It'd be no diff.