Can we do something about the quote button??
Perhaps add a 'quick quote' button. Just, do something so that it only quotes the most recently said thing in a post and excludes things in a quote box so that people will stop quoting EVERYTHING in a post and we don't have to scroll through the same thing being said five or six or ten bloody times on a page with all the infantile 'quote and respond' people on here.

Or, just copy and paste what you want and wrap it in quote tags?
Its a pretty hard thing to implement I would think.

But getting these infantile monkeys to DO that is pretty bloody difficult too.
I don't think it's taht hard. Webby just has to implement 'if' and 'if not' commands to good effect and make it so that if there's a quote box it only takes what's not inside quote tags. If I could remember exactly how to do it I'd write the coding myself.

I have a feeling that for many here, 442 is the only forum they visit on the interwebz. They obviously don't understand forum etiquette. Personally I don't think additional coding is required. People just need to be a little more smarter about things is all.
Like, quoting a pic that is the post directly before yours. Whats the point?

Sometimes you want multiple quotes. Its when people decide to quote an entire post which is the one preceding theirs when it gets annoying.
I just noticed that Afro did just that :lol:

Or, how about a "reply" as well as a "quote" button. Reply would respond to everything outside a posts' quote tags (ie. only a person's response to a quote), whereas the quote button just copies everything in a post?

Sounds simple enough to implement...

Why not just get rid of the quote button all together, save the trouble.:roll:

One thing that I think should DEFINITELY be done is put Quick Reply in a black button at the top right. As it is, I think most casual users of the forum overlook the red, un-underlined, hyperlink.

This too can become a pain in the ass though.

soccerpulse did something like what you suggest but it can get a little messy. I think its as good as its gonna get and it should be left as it is.

Another forum I go to has the quick quote as a separate box at the bottom of the page. So you click the 'QR' button, like the quote button, and it unlocks that text box. They also have a multi-quote button, which allows you to click as many replies as you want, and then quotes each one, so you can reply to multiple quotes at once easily.

I do that when there's another person viewing the topic at the same time as me incase they post before I do and then think I'm talking to them in my response. It cuts down confusion.
But people quoting quotes within quotes within quotes is just annoying.

That's fine funky, but you need to remember that this forum is full of people that haven't graduated to opposable thumbs yet...It would be confusing for them.

A quick quote button taht just quotes anything outside of a quote box in a post is the way to go IMO.

LOL just realised that what I said is the same as afro's earlier comment. :P

Or, you know...you could use that scrolly bar thingery on the side of your screen. I think they call it a scroll bar...:-"

I said this before, I dont want to waste my calories on scrolling!! :P

So we should have to constantly scroll through the same comment five or six or so times on the one page just to read a one-line response at the bottom of the page?

I just scrolled from the top of the page, down to read your post. It took me 2 seconds. That's it. And that's because I slowed it so i could see where I was up to.

It's not the scrolling that Im concerned about, it's the having to visually scan through the same crap several times over.... as you scroll down.

Personally I don't think it's that big a deal, but if it really gets on people's nerves that much, it has to be changed it would seem...

Perhaps afro could just take a spoon of his own cement. I dont think FFT should have to 're-write the forum codes' for a has-been. :P

And yet you made a suggestion and they made a change. So they made a change for you, a 'never was'.

Edited by afromanGT: 7/1/2009 01:47:02 AM

Can you replace the ellipsi (?) with words please. Im tired.

Ellipsis. And fixed. If you're that tired, go to bed rather than trying to prove yourself with the big boys.

Edited by afromanGT: 7/1/2009 01:48:30 AM

I meant ellipsi as like plural. Not saying it was right just think it may have gone under your radar. (though youd never admit it)

The second half of that comment is so lame I dont need to dissect and label it to make it shine badly on you. Its already embarrassing enough as it is.

can you guys have one thread where you two don't fight?

No, silly.

Once youv been around for as long as I have , your resigned to the fact that, invariably, a fight will erupt between them in every thread.

haha lol, i'm starting to realise.
every thread turns into a fight about anything, they just need to fight:d

Like a freaking married couple

lol
seriously they'll fight about anything, grammar soccer anything](*,)

just stop

He starts it.

Does that make you the she?

haha lol=d> :d

haha lol

truthfully i reckon it's about 50/50 who starts em, though afro generally has a good motive

Afro tries to draw people onto his side whereas I just go it alone. Afro doesnt like to step on anyone elses toes either. Me, I dont care. :d

yeah i guess, but it's better to have people on your side to back you up don't you think

The plural of Elipsis is Elipsis.

That's because you're a dick. Right little aussie battler aren't you :roll:

Edited by afromanGT: 7/1/2009 06:13:51 PM

One man armies are the way to go. He does it to make it look like everyone is against me and that I shoudl just stop so everyone doesnt hate me even more. (Like im supposed to care)

haha, look if you guys clearly dont' like each other, can't you jsut avoid fighting for a bit:-k

please[-o<

I never said it was Ellipsi. I wasnt sure. Hence the "(?)".

And youre wrong anyway.

see this is what i mean

who gives a crap if you spelt elipsiss or whatever it is wrong, just get along[-o<

Manc12, it doesnt matter what you say. Its Afro and Mk. They will never stop.

Sometimes, when a mummy and a daddy dont get along...

lol i'm starting to realise, but can't they just get alone like everyone else

lol imno:d

ROFL... last week's episode of House when House is arguing with Cuddy, Taub goes "this is valuable experience for me: my parents never divorced". :lol:

Anyway, get back to the topic at hand.

Edited by martyB: 7/1/2009 07:20:05 PM

Well as long we quote the person above us, I guess we are still on topic :P

I just like letting afro know hes not as smart as he thinks he is. Thats why we were talking about Ellipses.

Well, Im not too fussed about changes. These ideas IMO would make for more efficient posting/reading.

suggestion noted.

Yeah, but anybody who tries to make a suggestion outside the norm or to improve the place must be abused by mk...it must be in the forum rules somewhere by now...