My Rant... to be Classified Somewhere Between Objective and Obnoxious

[duggmills]

This is my Rant Du Jour;

I'm passively annoyed when posters feel the grip of and freely submit to some preconceived anxiety arising from some unanswered awareness of guilt that requires repeating entire original posts only to proceed in lock step sans any grammatically correct form of separation to then  only add some comment of questionable value to the presented subject. 

Sure mate, I know you've been aware of the the same issue. And yes, it does dramatically slow everyone's progressions through the array of responses  having to find the elusive  southern border between the tedious repetition of original post and responders comment.  I have to admit one of my closest and dearest friends here on the forum is a repeat offender.  Though I love her dearly,  admittedly, I don't know her personally.

Is there redress to this injustice to a smooth path through threads? Yes. If you wish to add opinion or rule to a thread, please don't underestimate the conceptual abilities of other members by repeating an entire original post.

If there's something specific within that original comment, simply copy and paste that specific line you wish to contest or uplift.  Don't forget quotation marks to help us grasp when you have completed the tedium of redundancy and: Now Comes; your salient comment.

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Separating  your comment from the original post can easily by accomplished using a line of dash marks as shown above to speed us through comments.

[gracieallen01]

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@itsjustasprain wrote:

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@duggmills wrote:

This is my Rant Du Jour;

I'm passively annoyed when posters feel the grip of and freely submit to some preconceived anxiety arising from some unanswered awareness of guilt that requires repeating entire original posts only to proceed in lock step sans any grammatically correct form of separation to then  only add some comment of questionable value to the presented subject. 

Sure mate, I know you've been aware of the the same issue. And yes, it does dramatically slow everyone's progressions through the array of responses  having to find the elusive  southern border between the tedious repetition of original post and responders comment.  I have to admit one of my closest and dearest friends here on the forum is a repeat offender.  Though I love her dearly,  admittedly, I don't know her personally.

Is there redress to this injustice to a smooth path through threads? Yes. If you wish to add opinion or rule to a thread, please don't underestimate the conceptual abilities of other members by repeating an entire original post.

If there's something specific within that original comment, simply copy and paste that specific line you wish to contest or uplift.  Don't forget quotation marks to help us grasp when you have completed the tedium of redundancy and: Now Comes; your salient comment.

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Separating  your comment from the original post can easily by accomplished using a line of dash marks as shown above to speed us through comments.

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I agree!

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You forgot the quote marks! 

[rainbowcolorz]

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@pburn wrote:

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@berserkerplanet wrote:
•But not simple for those of us on mobile devices

Sure it is. I do it the same way on my phone as I just did here in this quick reply. Manually copy and paste precise snippets.

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See? That's one of my points:  I can't tell whether "•But not simple for those of us on mobile devices" is part of your response or whether you're quoting someone else. Is that little mark preceding the sentence supposed to be some kind of a clue? I can barely tell what it is. Is it a bullet point? Is that a common symbol that means, "Someone else said this, and I've just copied it and pasted it into my comment?"

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@pburn, My sentiments exactly!  I also mentioned once before it's very difficult (for me, atleast) to read a post where the poster doesn't WAIT for the circle to stop spinning BEFORE they respond to a post they have quoted so that their reply comes BELOW the post they have quoted.   It only takes 3 more seconds to wait and reply properly.  

[ymeagainlord]

Or where even when the poster does put a demarcation, it's not immediately apparent, so you end up reading the 'quoted' part before realizing that's NOT the poster's response.

[ted_200]

It's excellent if it's used properly. I don't understand why some people don't know how to use it...

I know how to use it, but it is unnecessary.   eBay LOVES unnecessary "innovations".

[ted_200]

I agree that the best way is to use the quote and then delete all but the relevent sentences like I've done in this post.

That will work, but for a while a couple years back the overseers were issuing Moderation Notices for "changing" the statements of other users. 

[berserkerplanet]

> Is that little mark preceding
the
>sentence supposed to be
some
>kind of a clue?

That better? Traditional, decades old demarcation?

If you can't tell from the placement, demarcation, context, and the response that that type of thing is quoted content, then I don't know what to say.

[gracieallen01]

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@berserkerplanet wrote:

If you can't tell from the placement, demarcation, context, and the response that that type of thing is quoted content, then I don't know what to say.

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Yeah, but some ranting posts just rant on and on and nothing in them makes sense, no matter whether you quote all or some.  

(what little marks?) 

Good night, gracie.