Can we add this rule please?

[Exhilarare]

Can we make a rule that if you're going to reply to a topic, you cannot quote the entire post? I find it really distracting and annoying frankly.

 

Thoughts?

[Smooth Bunz]

I vote for not quoting pictures that is all.

[AlwaysFSX]

I vote we take it one step further and have mods outright ban hammer anyone they disagree with.

[yannickverc]

I see that you're not following your own thread. That should be rule #1, to follow the threads you created so people don't have to quote it in the first place

[GSTARR]

Can we make a rule that if you're going to reply to a topic, you cannot quote the entire post? I find it really distracting and annoying frankly.

 

Thoughts?

idc

[noisebomb44]

I vote we take it one step further and have mods outright ban hammer anyone they disagree with.

Linuspolicestate

[Guest]

I see that you're not following your own thread. That should be rule #1, to follow the threads you created so people don't have to quote it in the first place

There is probably some setting the server admins can enable to make so that you auto follow any topic you create.

[noisebomb44]

OR, you could just ask them to give every quote over like 10 lines a spoiler button

[The Cool n00B]

Can we make a rule that if you're going to reply to a topic, you cannot quote the entire post? I find it really distracting and annoying frankly.

 

Thoughts?

Lol people quote the topic bc the OP doesn't follow it, so it's the only way they'll get updates on it.

 

Quoting pictures, on the other hand, is outright a dick move. It makes the threads way to long and all that, and a simple

 

-snip-

is all that's needed.

[yannickverc]

There is probably some setting the server admins can enable to make so that you auto follow any topic you create.

The should enable that.

[The Cool n00B]

There is probably some setting the server admins can enable to make so that you auto follow any topic you create.

It's a profile setting.

[PlayStation 2]

No. Sometimes you NEED to quote the whole post

[Guest]

I vote we take it one step further and have mods outright ban hammer anyone they disagree with.

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[JefferyD90]

Can we make a rule that if you're going to reply to a topic, you cannot quote the entire post? I find it really distracting and annoying frankly.

 

Thoughts?

Why wouldn't someone quote a whole post in a thread?  You want me to spend MORE of my precious time to go through and meticulously pick through a quote so I only quote a specific part?  The quote is there so people know who you're talking about.

[Guest]

It's a profile setting.

...im just gonna go ahead and enable that then

[Guest]

It's a profile setting.

cant find it

[minibois]

First of all, this: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/314050-forum-features-suggestions/

 

And second of all, would be a good thing to do.. Not sure if it should be a rule as sometimes the OP is just 3 lines long or something, so you would have to make exceptions and stuff

[Bsmith]

Can we make a rule that if you're going to reply to a topic, you cannot quote the entire post? I find it really distracting and annoying frankly.

 

Thoughts?

 

just cut out the useless, otherwise short posts get cut in half, kinda useless no?

[minibois]

cant find it

http://linustechtips.com/main/index.php?app=core&module=usercp&tab=core&area=notifications

 

"Auto follow topics I reply to. Notification frequency:"

 

Does however follows ALL topics you at all make posts to (so that would for example follow this one too)

[Guest]

http://linustechtips.com/main/index.php?app=core&module=usercp&tab=core&area=notifications

 

"Auto follow topics I reply to. Notification frequency:"

 

Does however follows ALL topics you at all make posts to (so that would for example follow this one too)

found that one but some topics just get bombarded with posts and i would rather not have my inbox filled

[squirrl]

Why wouldn't someone quote a whole post in a thread?  You want me to spend MORE of my precious time to go through and meticulously pick through a quote so I only quote a specific part?  The quote is there so people know who you're talking about.

There already is a rule that you should not quote the OP. Replying to the topic without a quote generally means that you are replying to the OP. In this case I'm not replying to the OP (or maybe i am indirectly), I'm quoting your post which only has 2 lines. If your post was 100 lines i would take out the small part that i'm referring to. It's less work than everyone else has to do by scrolling through the thread when most of it is just duplicate content.

[Exhilarare]

Lol people quote the topic bc the OP doesn't follow it, so it's the only way they'll get updates on it.

 

Okay... but what poster doesn't go and check back on their own topics? Lol. Idk. I think that it should be a feature auto-enabled.

[minibois]

found that one but some topics just get bombarded with posts and i would rather not have my inbox filled

True,

But a feature specifically to follow topics you make, does ot exist right now. It hasbeen requested many many times and the only answer we always hear is that it is in the new forum software.

[minibois]

Okay... but what poster doesn't go and check back on their own topics? Lol. Idk. I think that it should be a feature auto-enabled.

they may go back once, but ot after that. that often happens, so better be safe than sorry.

And as I said above, has been suggested often, but not possible in theurrent forum software

[The Official Czex]

Can we make a rule that if you're going to reply to a topic, you cannot quote the entire post? I find it really distracting and annoying frankly.

 

Thoughts?

 

You have a Kingston SSDNow. You shouldn't be forcing your own idealisms with that in your system. 

 

All jokes aside, I agree.