Using quotes (intelligently) in responses

[special one]

While we're on the moan, I also find big sigs on people's posts annoying, links galore or big photos, the sigs are bigger than any text they post, a forum I'm a mod on don't allow big sigs and I'm in agreement with it.

What like mine?

Yep, nothing personal and there are worse ones, get three or four members with sigs like that on one thread and that's a lot of space.

[AndyB]

While we're on the moan, I also find big sigs on people's posts annoying, links galore or big photos, the sigs are bigger than any text they post, a forum I'm a mod on don't allow big sigs and I'm in agreement with it.

What like mine?

Yep, nothing personal and there are worse ones, get three or four members with sigs like that on one thread and that's a lot of space.

I don't really care who has what as a signature until I'm away in Europe and paying for my internet when large signatures and reposted pictures soon eat away at my free allowance and it starts to cost a lot of money.

[900Fantrider]

How do you quote from two separate posts into one reply?

That what I want to know aswell!!

[Mul001]

So this is wrong ?

[quote="allanmac" post=323300][quote="bull" post=323294][quote="Tim Cullis" post=323265][quote="Tim Cullis" post=323264]Some of the threads on here are difficult to read as they mainly comprise posts full of quotes from previous posts.

Just in case there's any doubt on the subject, you DON'T have to always quote the post you are responding to, especially if it's the latest post on the thread. Just hit the REPLY button instead.

And if you are going to quote, be selective about what you use if the previous post is fairly wordy. Remove extraneous text that's not needed, leaving just the sentence you are responding to. You do this by editing (deleting) the text between the <quote> and </quote> commands.

What I've done here is to respond to the first post using the QUOTE button. [quote

Now feel free to use this thread to experiment in response editing.

Hit the QUOTE button to respond to this post and edit the text that you are quoting leaving just the words 'feel free to use this thread' from the second post on the thread.

Hint: this will involve removing one of the sets of <quote> and </quote> commands.

am I doing it right

Maybe not (thumbs)

Cheers Allan

I think you're both doing a grand job (thumbs)

thanks, i think we are getting the hang of it now

Apparently so (thumbs)

Cheers Allan

how about this (thumbs)

or have i done that already

Maybe you have I'm not sure :whistle:

Cheers Allan[/quote]

I'm lost !! There's so many ways you can fall foul of the online "quote" etiquette "quote" laws.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk[/quote]
thanks,,you have educated me on this quote thingie (thumbs)[/quote]

I am not sure if i am doing this right. Can anyone explain please as i keep getting the previous quotes on my postings[/quote]



it looks ok to me anyway [/quote]


You're all wrong. This is how to avoid long quotes, erm, I'll get my coat. Could someone run that by me again pls :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[Mark1961]

While we're on the moan, I also find big sigs on people's posts annoying, links galore or big photos, the sigs are bigger than any text they post, a forum I'm a mod on don't allow big sigs and I'm in agreement with it.

What like mine?

Yep, nothing personal and there are worse ones, get three or four members with sigs like that on one thread and that's a lot of space.

I don't really care who has what as a signature until I'm away in Europe and paying for my internet when large signatures and reposted pictures soon eat away at my free allowance and it starts to cost a lot of money.

Well Gents, the good news is I don't come on here very much any more. The forum is not what it used to be. So you won't see my sig that much.

The bad news is, it's staying put.

[allanmac]

So this is wrong ?

[quote="allanmac" post=323300][quote="bull" post=323294][quote="Tim Cullis" post=323265][quote="Tim Cullis" post=323264]Some of the threads on here are difficult to read as they mainly comprise posts full of quotes from previous posts.

Just in case there's any doubt on the subject, you DON'T have to always quote the post you are responding to, especially if it's the latest post on the thread. Just hit the REPLY button instead.

And if you are going to quote, be selective about what you use if the previous post is fairly wordy. Remove extraneous text that's not needed, leaving just the sentence you are responding to. You do this by editing (deleting) the text between the <quote> and </quote> commands.

What I've done here is to respond to the first post using the QUOTE button. [quote

Now feel free to use this thread to experiment in response editing.

Hit the QUOTE button to respond to this post and edit the text that you are quoting leaving just the words 'feel free to use this thread' from the second post on the thread.

Hint: this will involve removing one of the sets of <quote> and </quote> commands.

am I doing it right

Maybe not (thumbs)

Cheers Allan

I think you're both doing a grand job (thumbs)

thanks, i think we are getting the hang of it now

Apparently so (thumbs)

Cheers Allan

how about this (thumbs)

or have i done that already

Maybe you have I'm not sure :whistle:

Cheers Allan[/quote]

I'm lost !! There's so many ways you can fall foul of the online "quote" etiquette "quote" laws.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk[/quote]
thanks,,you have educated me on this quote thingie (thumbs)[/quote]

I am not sure if i am doing this right. Can anyone explain please as i keep getting the previous quotes on my postings[/quote]



it looks ok to me anyway [/quote]

I think iv finally got it now (thumbs)

Cheers Allan

[Tim Cullis]

Epic fail

[CRAIGREVO]

While we're on the moan, I also find big sigs on people's posts annoying, links galore or big photos, the sigs are bigger than any text they post, a forum I'm a mod on don't allow big sigs and I'm in agreement with it.

What like mine?

Yep, nothing personal and there are worse ones, get three or four members with sigs like that on one thread and that's a lot of space.

How do you quote from two separate posts into one reply?

That what I want to know aswell!!

Just copy and paste one quote to another quote. No multi quote option on abr I'm afraid.

[Dave DRZ]

How do you quote from two separate posts into one reply?

That what I want to know aswell!!

Just copy and paste one quote to another quote. No multi quote option on abr I'm afraid.

I find it useful to hover the mouse over the "quote" button and hand hand click it, then 'open in new tab', you can do this with as many quotes as you want, then copy and paste them together in one post in the order you want them.

Agree with Craigrevo though, multi quote would be a good option.

Dave