Clarity of responses and readability in debates within threads

[SeanKroll]

I've notice that when a post is not including a quoted post, nor immediately following the quote being responded to, nor mentioning someone's name, that it is hard to follow who is addressing which point.



I know I'm guilty of not being clear and proofreading. Sometimes I am awake in the middle of the night for an hour or three. I've been up since 2am, today.


Addressing someone by name would help a lot.

Quoting the post being responded to will help.

 

[flushcut]

Guilty

 

[Jonny]

Butch had his pet peeve, but I’m not sure if anyone else is bothered by quoting the previous post.

 

[lxskllr]

Quoting the post being responded to will help.

I'm a huge fan of quoting who and what you're reacting to. I don't do it here, cause Butch, but it's the best way to increase clarity.

 

[lumberjack]

Absolutely quote anyone or multiple people if it’s lengthy.

I don’t understand why it peeved Butch, but he doesn’t care now.

 

[gf beranek]

Boy, you got that right, Carl.

I watched Butch numerous times "managing the fourm"

Spending hours reading posts. He had them memorized. And it peeved him when someone quoted a post.

To keep a thread in context, between different members, you got to quote the previous post sometimes.

Otherwise, like Sean said. WTF?

 

[Eric H-L]

I totally agree with what you all said. I gotta say that I think Butch had a point when it comes to over quoting everything when it does not add to clarity. Edit your quotes.

 

[cory]

I watched Butch numerous times "managing the fourm"

Spending hours reading posts. He had them memorized.

🔥

 

[davidwyby]

I usually just @ the person if I’m not directly responding to their post, and sometimes even if I am…long quotes seem
Cluttery to me.

 

[lxskllr]

Furthermore, if you highlight a section of text from a post, options will usually appear that allow you to quote and reply to the selected text. It doesn't always work, but it usually does.

 

[Marc-Antoine]

I thought that it was to save easily a little bit of data storage for the forum. But it's just a supposition.

 

[lumberjack]

Storage of text is essentially free.