The Quote button

[Dog Cow]

... is gone. Why?

I think thats enough playing around with stupid amounts of quotes.

 

[~tl]

I guess you could call it an experiment...

 

[Osgeld]

quotes have their places but people do get a little button happy round here

so good luck on your experiment

 

[luddite]

quotes have their places but people do get a little button happy round here

Back in my day we didn't have quote buttons... had to cut'n'paste everything by hand!

 

[Osgeld]

you answered my second question, do the tags still work, and nope (well at the time of posting)

hopefully that wont bork all the threads with quotes in them already but Im not that worried about it since they are fiddling with it atm

 

[Dog Cow]

I guess you could call it an experiment...

This place has changed a lot since I first joined up, and mostly for the

 

[aftermac]

quotes have their places but people do get a little button happy round here

Back in my day we didn't have quote buttons... had to cut'n'paste everything by hand!

With actual scissors and a glue stick!!

The "Quote" button does seem to still work on the "Post a Reply" page... for now...

 

[luddite]

quotes have their places but people do get a little button happy round here

Back in my day we didn't have quote buttons... had to cut'n'paste everything by hand!

With actual scissors and a glue stick!!

The "Quote" button does seem to still work on the "Post a Reply" page... for now...

Maybe so, but please don't abuse it!

 

[Anonymous Freak]

quotes have their places but people do get a little button happy round here

Back in my day we didn't have quote buttons... had to cut'n'paste everything by hand!

With actual scissors and a glue stick!!

The "Quote" button does seem to still work on the "Post a Reply" page... for now...

Maybe so, but please don't abuse it!

Yes, massively over-quoted replies with only one line of new content are annoying!

 

[tyrannis]

Seriously? You took off the Quote button?

****, let's take off the Reply button too. If no one can post, no one can disobey the numerous and increasing rules.

edited by jt, let's not get vulgar, that rule has NEVER changed and the tags still work just fine, but you need to copy/paste!

 

[Quadraman]

Why don't I see the quote button in the upper right of the messages today? All I see is an upside triangle with an exclamation point.

 

[Osgeld]

RTFT :O

 

[LCGuy]

I can't see what the big deal is, you should still be able to use quotes via BBCode. Its not as if we've banned quotes completely.

This is a test. Testing testing one two three.

See?

 

[Mars478]

Sometimes I question why I allow myself to be treated to this... Arg. This is just horrible.

Time to make a new 68k Forum

Nah, just kidding. I guess we'll have to live with lot's more work for voluntary posting that if made to hard could make this forum a desert. You've gotta be careful with such experiments! You could lose lot's of people.

 

[tyrannis]

I can't see what the big deal is, you should still be able to use quotes via BBCode. Its not as if we've banned quotes completely.

This is a test. Testing testing one two three.

See?

Why not just go ahead and finish the job? You can still easily quote from the "Post a Reply" page. All you've done is inconvenienced people.

 

[Mars478]

Yeah seriously! Are you just trying to make it us harder for us?

 

[Osgeld]

All you've done is inconvenienced people.

not really, honestly I forget the quote button is there, why?

I usually just highlight the point I want to focus on and manual quote it anyway

 

[luddite]

You can still easily quote from the "Post a Reply" page.

You know, until this thread came up I didn't notice the quote button on the reply page... I also didn't realize you can select the text to quote rather than quoting the whole post and editing by hand.

All you've done is inconvenienced people.

Not me – I'm actually further ahead than I was before... this is the biggest leap for me since I discovered the copy and paste functions – I can't believe I used to print everything out and then OCR it back in!

;-)

 

[Osgeld]

I can't believe I used to print everything out and then OCR it back in!

OMG OCR! I type it all in octal on a telephone pad