Zot Zealot
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Joined: Monday, 15th April 2013, 15:10
Location: Augsburg, Germany
Thoughts about the Quote button
Several times I wasn't happy about the way the Quote button was used. This concerns 1) quoting very long text and 2) quoting quoted quotes.
- PosterA writes some text containing 50 lines. PosterB quotes everything and just adds a line like "Well, I agree to most of what you have said but concerning X I think Y is better". So we have a very long post containing very little new information.
- PosterA writes something, posterB quotes posterA and adds something new, posterC quotes altogether and adds a new line etc. (How do you call this? The online dictionary supposes "pyramiding" quotes e.g.). Anyway, same as before, we can get a very long post with very little new information.