Pet hate

mikem · May 18, 2020

Quoting the entire previous post when replying - if it's been superceded by others then fair enough, but even then it helps if any irrelevant parts are deleted.

Minion · May 18, 2020

mikem said:
Quoting the entire previous post when replying - if it's been superceded by others then fair enough, but even then it helps if any irrelevant parts are deleted.

I agree, it?s just sheer laziness.

JoshW · May 18, 2020

Minion said:
mikem said:

Quoting the entire previous post when replying - if it's been superceded by others then fair enough, but even then it helps if any irrelevant parts are deleted.

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I agree, it?s just sheer laziness.

Horrendous isn't it, just use the relevant bit.

Trig Gledhill · May 18, 2020

Minion said:
mikem said:

Quoting the entire previous post when replying - if it's been superceded by others then fair enough, but even then it helps if any irrelevant parts are deleted.

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I agree, it?s just sheer laziness.

So flipping lazy

mudman · May 18, 2020

JoshW said:
Minion said:

mikem said:

Quoting the entire previous post when replying - if it's been superceded by others then fair enough, but even then it helps if any irrelevant parts are deleted.

Click to expand...

I agree, it?s just sheer laziness.

Click to expand...

Horrendous isn't it, just use the relevant bit.

Doesn't it depend on which bit is relevant? What if there are lots of relevant bits that are relevant? After all, relevance it relative.

mikem · May 18, 2020

mudman said:
JoshW said:

Minion said:

mikem said:

Quoting the entire previous post when replying - if it's been superceded by others then fair enough, but even then it helps if any irrelevant parts are deleted.

Click to expand...

I agree, it?s just sheer laziness.

Click to expand...

Horrendous isn't it, just use the relevant bit.

Click to expand...

Doesn't it depend on which bit is relevant? What if there are lots of relevant bits that are relevant? After all, relevance it relative.

Fortunately it doesn't really bother me with short posts... :tease:

BTW then they aren't irrelevant.

Badlad · May 18, 2020

Well that was predictable

but I do take your point.

mikem · May 18, 2020

& more people will see it, the more times it's used

PeteHall · May 18, 2020

To be fair, for anyone using the forum form a mobile phone, it is really tedious to remove parts of a quote and very easy to loose the bits you wanted to keep. Then you have no choice but to start again or give up

ali_mac · May 18, 2020

I thought this was going to be a thread about how someone hates their neighbours cats digging up and crapping in their garden, or barking dogs, making a noise nuisance.

Now I feel mislead!

mikem · May 18, 2020

You could always start a thread about it! (but in Idle Chat - I also requested the home page to show what forum it was in, to help with this precise issue. Now if it was happening in your cave...)

PeteHall said:
To be fair, for anyone using the forum form a mobile phone, it is really tedious to remove parts of a quote and very easy to loose the bits you wanted to keep. Then you have no choice but to start again or give up

That's why that was just an aside. The main comment was quoting something in entirety that appears just above.

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