mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
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@maxine*j wrote:
@partfinds wrote:
... When you use mobile device it is just harder to make it fancy. Caps lock is just there fast easy and convenient...
Text in all capitals is very difficult for the visually impaired to read.
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Not just visually impaired. In general all caps is harder to read and get harder as more and more words are put together. The worst is a wall of text [no paragraphs] all in caps. A wall of text is bad enough, but make it all caps and it is much worse IMHO.
This is a proven fact, not just a he said she said thing.
Wall of Text.
@soh.maryl wrote:Thanks. Guess I didn't know that. Don't remember setting up anything, but then there are some computer type things about which I am basically clueless.
Me Too!!! You might want to go up to your setting sometimes and play around with them. There are some very useful stuff in those settings. Or at least get an idea of what your options are.
For anyone unfamiliar with where to find them, go to the top of the community page. Click on your Avatar and a list of options will appear. Click on settings. There are several sections under settings, so take your time with it and learn.
@itsjustasprain wrote:
@herbaearth wrote:and if anyone gets heated about their woke response, the shills get 12 to 20 helpful votes for absolutely no intelligent reasoning.
What is your understanding of what the term 'woke' means?
@itsjustasprain Here's my understanding of it ... I did it about 20 minutes ago after a wonderful afternoon nap ... I woke. I did it early this morning too around 6:30 AM and plan to repeat it July 4th ...
@buyselljack2016 wrote:Yes, does make it confusing.
I go read what was being "posted to" (as far as I desire), and click "back" to pick up where I left off.
Time was, as you would likely know better than I, as you have been a community member much longer than I have, that a thread would be pages, and pages long with "quotes". At that time, if I remember correctly, replying to someones post did not provide that link back to what was being replied to so "everything" that anyone wanted to associate their post to got "quoted", or at least "partially quoted".
Seems this "link back" now was a solution, or a least some improvement to reduce those long, long, long threads. Posters had complained about "quotes".
@buyselljack2016 There was a time when you could click the ID of the member you were replying to and jump back to that specific post.
Earlier this year they agreed to have the system set up so if you start reading a thread and leave it when you go back you will go back to where you left it.
The other issue of course is that in our Settings we can have the posts on a thread oldest to newest or reversed. I love those people who say stuff like "see my post #23" ... duh, # 23 can be one of two depending on how one has their settings ...
"There was a time when you could click the ID of the member you were replying to and jump back to that specific post."
You still can. IF there is a "Response to" line. But if that line doesn't exist, either the poster responded to the OP or used the small box at the bottom of all threads to post in. Neither will fill in a "response to" line.
This is something I've brought to sheila@ebay attention before regarding the off topic issue. If that is meant to say that if a topic goes off the very specific topic the OP started the thread about, as they so often do. Usually it is because there is a good reason for it and it is important to the discussion at hand.
For example a seller comes to the boards concerned about requests for returns they have recently been receiving. That discussion and easily turn to talking about the different types of return policies and what that means to the seller and the buyer. Or maybe to listing structure or even picture quality and more. While some may be seen as off topic they really aren't.
Then there are others that stray to a completely different topic, that is true. Some briefly and some do tend to take over the thread.
Sometimes if you aren't following the entire discussion it is hard to say what is on topic or related enough and those posts that are completely on a different subject. Not including some comedy relief that we all need from time to time on many discussions.
