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Quote facility?

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FlouncyMcFlouncer · 04/08/2012 17:45

I'm sure this has been asked before but I can't find anything on it.
Is there a frightfully good reason why there is no 'quote' facility on MN? I would find it immensely useful...

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FlouncyMcFlouncer · 05/08/2012 11:55

No no, not everyone who disagrees, and not you on just this thread. Generally, you on lots of threads recently. Sorry if that's unpleasant to hear.

Now, I was quite happy with the replies I got and the reasons MN doesn't have the facility. I still think it would be a benefit rather than a PITA, but I'm really not prepared to lay down my life to fight for it. However, AFTER I had returned to the thread and 'accepted the judgement laid down', I feel it was unnecessary for people to suggest I would be more at home in the glittery arse-fest that is Netmums.

My point regarding the other people talking was more in reference to the speed in which the conversation moves on from the point one is trying to reply to, rather than the difficulty of making oneself heard.

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WendevilleAndManlock · 05/08/2012 11:54

Shove up Tee, there's plenty of room on the naughty step Grin

ShowOfHands · 05/08/2012 11:54

Go to advanced search, limit to site stuff and put the word 'quote' as a thread title search and you'll get 7 threads about this already. In case you want to read the same argument hashed over.

I'm in the NOOOOOOOOOO camp. Just use your words.

Tee2072 · 05/08/2012 11:51

Do you? Interesting.

Or is anyone who disagrees with you and doesn't jump on your bandwagon automatically rude? Something to think about, perhaps?

And you've obviously never had to try to have a conversation in a pub if you've never had a conversation with 37 other people all talking at once.

Or, as we like to call it at my house, Christmas dinner.

WendevilleAndManlock · 05/08/2012 11:49

I have to disagree with you though.

And we did have a vote.

And the majority didn't want it.

PS swearing at folk is rude by the way Wink

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FlouncyMcFlouncer · 05/08/2012 11:48

Tee2072 , I often think you're awfully rude too so I expect that's why it didn't resonate with you.

Wendeville thanks for your honesty! Grin

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FlouncyMcFlouncer · 05/08/2012 11:47

And no, people don't quote back to each other in Real Life - but also, in polite conversation at least, in Real Life thirty seven other people don't all speak at the same time. On a message board such as Mn you have a complicated combination of discussion and one-to-one conversation and when one is trying to debate a specific point with another poster, a quote facility would enable you to catch their attention and select the exact point that they made which you want to address.

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Tee2072 · 05/08/2012 11:46

"I just thought it might be easier when one is trying to address an actual reply to an individual."

See what I did there? I am replying to an individual. And didn't need a quote function to quote you, now did I?

And I didn't think Wendeville was all that rude.

WendevilleAndManlock · 05/08/2012 11:46

Yes, I probably did Grin
Sorry Blush

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FlouncyMcFlouncer · 05/08/2012 11:42

Wendeville did you actually mean to be so bloody rude? I don't want tickers and glittery shite, I just thought it might be easier when one is trying to address an actual reply to an individual.

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savoycabbage · 05/08/2012 08:51

Exactly. Its a conversation. 'does my bum look big in this?' 'does my bum look big in this.' 'yes' is not a conversation.

WendevilleAndManlock · 05/08/2012 08:45

MN is a conversation. Pretty sure most people don't quote back to the other person before replying, in RL.

Tee2072 · 05/08/2012 08:44

Sorry, wasn't finished, got interrupted by a tantrumming 3 year old.

In any event, it creates a lazy site with no discussion. And turns MN into Facebook.

Now, I love Facebook. But it's not for discussion. It's for brief moments in time. It's for liking pictures and comments and having an occasional conversation.

Don't make MN like Facebook.

WendevilleAndManlock · 05/08/2012 08:43

Please go somewhere else if you want these features and glittery tickers

OhNoMyFoot · 05/08/2012 08:40

HellenicGamesMumsnet (MNHQ)Sat 04-Aug-12 18:35:36

Tee2072

HecateHarshPants Sat 04-Aug-12 18:16:11
HecateHarshPants Sat 04-Aug-12 18:14:44

Tee2072 Sat 04-Aug-12 18:10:56

Because you get 1,000 nested quotes and a response of 'I agree'.

Copy and paste and use "s.
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I agree

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I still agree, and what's more, it makes threads really confusing and practically unreadable

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I still agree also.

But yes: we had a Heated Debate a wee while back and most people violently agreed they didn't want a quote facility.

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I see why, don't you?

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I agree

Tee2072 · 05/08/2012 08:39

It certainly does and creates a lazy site with no discussion.

NetworkGuy · 05/08/2012 08:26

It doesn't preclude that option.

AbsolutelyNotHoneyDragon · 05/08/2012 08:25

[nodding enthusiastically at Tee emoticon]
Grin

Tee2072 · 05/08/2012 08:21

Or, you know, we could all just keep talking to each other using language and actual words.

NetworkGuy · 05/08/2012 08:20

They wouldn't need to write 'I agree' if they could just give a post a "+1" or "like" it, or a "thumbs up" to indicate their support... Grin

A few years ago, AOL customers were derided as "me too" people who had no ideas of their own (and AOL was bottom of a Which? 'satisfaction with your ISP' ranking [yet again])... just in case anyone needs a reason [other than the fact TalkTalk owns AOL] to ditch their AOL e-mail address, an switch ISP!

AbsolutelyNotHoneyDragon · 04/08/2012 22:29

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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FlouncyMcFlouncer · 04/08/2012 22:24

Thanks for the insight Grin

I put 'quote facility' into the search function and got sod all of any use.

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usualsuspect · 04/08/2012 20:59

I type replys out all the time then change my mind before I hit send Grin

HecateHarshPants · 04/08/2012 20:58

Oh yes. 'You've got five minutes to change your mind, do you really want to be a twat?' or 'Is it really spelled that way?' Grin

usualsuspect · 04/08/2012 20:02

oh and a timed edit function would be useful too.