When replying with quote

[alanfgag]

A suggestion that comes up frequently but worth repeating...

When replying with quote to a recent post with many photos, please do not repeat post all the photos. It takes up much space and causes threads to load more slowly. Best way to avoid this is to edit the quoted post to remove the photos, leaving the pertinent copy and perhaps a single photo to reference the original post. If you are working from a mobile device and editing the quoted post is too cumbersome, just make a reference to the original post in your reply without quoting. We will get it.

Thank you!

 

[buler]

+1 million!

Please read this and do this!

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[hatsRme]

A suggestion that comes up frequently but worth repeating...

When replying with quote to a recent post with many photos, please do not repeat post all the photos. It takes up much space and causes threads to load more slowly. Best way to avoid this is to edit the quoted post to remove the photos, leaving the pertinent copy and perhaps a single photo to reference the original post. If you are working from a mobile device and editing the quoted post is too cumbersome, just make a reference to the original post in your reply without quoting. We will get it.

Thank you!

Bless you, Alan!

 

[ingineer]

Alan; Thanks for bringing this up.
The kibitzers make this the only irritating thing in this forum.

 

[hatsRme]

Alan; Thanks for bringing this up.
The kibitzers make this the only irritating thing in this forum.

It's the Yentas that bother me.

 

[g.durand]

I suspect that some are daunted by that page of HTML tags in front of them when they attempt to reply with a quote to a post. Leaving or removing one tag too many can prevent the reply from posting correctly.

Perhaps a tutorial is in order.


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[Frunobulax]

100% agree. Thanks Alan.

 

[gtdean48]

Worth another shot....

 

[viclip]

Bear in mind that the relevant text portion of posts can be selected/highlighted thence copied & pasted into a reply post.
That way you can avoid working with HTML tags altogether if Web page programming isn't your forte.

 

[TOuten2]

Bear in mind that the relevant text portion of posts can be selected/highlighted thence copied & pasted into a reply post.
That way you can avoid working with HTML tags altogether if Web page programming isn't your forte.

Agree!

 

[Bob Roberts]

Huh...?

 

[alanfgag]

Perhaps a tutorial is in order.

A good thought.

When you hit Reply With Quote you generate a window like the example below. The highlighted text shows what can be deleted or edited while leaving the correct HTML anchors to display the quote.

In the example below, I've hit Reply With Quote to a post with a photograph and selected the HTML tag that references the photo. Deleting this text will yield a quote with the word "Dunlap" but without reposting the original photo.

Try it.

 

[g.durand]

Perfect, Alan. Thank you.

Everyone, if you need to repost a photo as a reference, by all means do so. But as everyone else has said, for the sake of space and page load time, especially for those of us using mobile devices, let's try to keep the reposting of photos to a minimum.

 

[moontheloon]

another thing that will make threads much more comfortable to look at

when replying to many threads ... for example if you are thanking people for comments they made on your pics ... instead of replying to every post separately hit the little quote button on all the posts you want to reply to then hit reply to thread and you can put them all in one post

see pics below

and also edit the posts you are replying to to specifically the part you are replying to instead of quoting the entire 3 paragraph post to say thank you to a comment at the very end of it ...


just little pet peeves of mine

hope this helps

 

[hatophile]

For a non-techie guy, I've learned a lot from this forum

 

[Blackthorn]

With this new system, I haven't figured out how to quote and reply to anything, so I'm not posting much now. I've tried several times by hitting "quote" but not seeing anything happen.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

With this new system, I haven't figured out how to quote and reply to anything, so I'm not posting much now. I've tried several times by hitting "quote" but not seeing anything happen.

I just clicked the quote in your message Blackthorn. Then clicked on 'insert quote' and typed my message.
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[alanfgag]

With this new system, I haven't figured out how to quote and reply to anything, so I'm not posting much now. I've tried several times by hitting "quote" but not seeing anything happen.

When you hit <quote> underneath the message you would like to quote, you'll see an option under your reply window <insert quote> Tap this and you will see a preview of the quote (or quotes) that can be inserted into your reply. Once added, the quote can be edited much in the way it would have been done on the old site... you can edit copy, delete photos, etc.

Hope that helps.

 

[rogerstg]

With this new system, I haven't figured out how to quote and reply to anything, so I'm not posting much now. I've tried several times by hitting "quote" but not seeing anything happen.

If you simply hit the "reply" link in a post that you want to quote, the related message is automatically shown in your reply. It's like using the quote button in the old system. It took me a while to figure this out.

The +Quote link is for quoting multiple messages in your reply.

 

[Blackthorn]

:d:d:d<-----Those are supposed to be grins, but the system doesn't seem to be working.

When you hit <quote> underneath the message you would like to quote, you'll see an option under your reply window <insert quote> Tap this and you will see a preview of the quote (or quotes) that can be inserted into your reply. Once added, the quote can be edited much in the way it would have been done on the old site... you can edit copy, delete photos, etc.

Hope that helps.

OK, am walking through this...hopefully I'm doing it right. Thanks Alan, and all of you!