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Am I the only person that finds reading the same thing over and over again quite irritating?
Is there any nettiquette on quoting?
I understand that this is a linear and not a threaded forum by even so, aren't posts like this a bit, well, daft?
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I automatically skip anything that is quoted, and go straight to the post.
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I do too, I guess it just annoys me :)
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I only quote when I'm refering to something specific or refering to something not in the last post.
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Post by Bill H »

Yeah, me too. If I'm referring to the immediately previous post I don't quote.
If it's one orior to that I do to avoid confusion.
(i.e. I didn't quote in this post. heh, heh.)
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Post by m3mn0n »

If it's that small, it doesn't bother me at all.

But when it's longer posts it's annoying. When it's more than 5-6 quotes deep, it's slightly annoying. And also when someone quotes the entire intial post when they respond first, that has to annoy me the most.

The first two I mentioned are useful in a way, but that last one is just flat out unnecessary... :lol:

But I really don't mind that much. It takes what, like a millisecond longer to scroll past the reply? No biggie.
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If anything, I use it as an "RE:" just to indicate which post, or more, whose post I am refering to :P
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Re: Quoting

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Grim... wrote:Am I the only person that finds reading the same thing over and over again quite irritating?
I"m not sure what you're talking about :lol:

sorry I couldnt' resist...someone had to do it, may as well have been me :twisted:
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Burrito wrote:
Grim... wrote:Am I the only person that finds reading the same thing over and over again quite irritating?
I"m not sure what you're talking about :lol:

sorry I couldnt' resist...someone had to do it, may as well have been me :twisted:
Oh, snap!

Looky what I did. :lol: :wink:
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Sami wrote:
Burrito wrote:
Grim... wrote:Am I the only person that finds reading the same thing over and over again quite irritating?
I"m not sure what you're talking about :lol:

sorry I couldnt' resist...someone had to do it, may as well have been me :twisted:
Oh, snap!

Looky what I did. :lol: :wink:
May I ask why this is annoiying? (im serious) ... I seriously don't see why something as simple as quoting could be annoiying 8O
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Jcart wrote:
Sami wrote:
Burrito wrote: I"m not sure what you're talking about :lol:

sorry I couldnt' resist...someone had to do it, may as well have been me :twisted:
Oh, snap!

Looky what I did. :lol: :wink:
May I ask why this is annoiying? (im serious) ... I seriously don't see why something as simple as quoting could be annoiying 8O
I think it's pretty awsome, to respond directly to Jcart I don't know what he's talking about. Helps me see what's going on clearer.
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Charles256 wrote:
Jcart wrote:
Sami wrote: Oh, snap!

Looky what I did. :lol: :wink:
May I ask why this is annoiying? (im serious) ... I seriously don't see why something as simple as quoting could be annoiying 8O
I think it's pretty awsome, to respond directly to Jcart I don't know what he's talking about. Helps me see what's going on clearer.
maybe at this level it could be annoying...but here I'm 5 deep....
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Burrito wrote:
Charles256 wrote:
Jcart wrote: May I ask why this is annoiying? (im serious) ... I seriously don't see why something as simple as quoting could be annoiying 8O
I think it's pretty awsome, to respond directly to Jcart I don't know what he's talking about. Helps me see what's going on clearer.
maybe at this level it could be annoying...but here I'm 5 deep....
Guys, if we go any deeper, we might get stuck :lol:
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Post by John Cartwright »

Even though I find this extremely funny, enough quoting already! :lol:
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Post by Burrito »

ok the point was made...and we're already in a huge hole.

let's cease this nonsense.

edit: damn you jcart! beat me to it.
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