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A Humble Suggestion For Improving This Wonderful Site.......

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EricL · 03/10/2007 11:08

(Did you notice the gentle introduction there - just to make sure i didn't get your hackles up straight away? Yes? Cool - lets continue nice and calm and relaxed now................)

I'm not talking about changing the look of the site or adding flashy movey winky wonky things (cos that is just childish and induces a nervous tick from me normally resulting in a broken monitor and sore knuckles) - i'm talking about a Quote and Edit function.

I see lots of daily posts where the poster is having to correct themselves for clarification or is having to explain who they were responding to. Having the abilty to edit your posts and also to quote someone you are responding to would make the site a lot more efficient. Less posts would be made as it would be clear from the outset what the poster meant and who a response was directed at.

Yes? No?

Whaddaya think?

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MarsLady · 03/10/2007 11:56

But if people can edit we wouldn't have wonder UCM is that you? threads lol!

Piffle · 03/10/2007 11:52

I would like a WTF/dunno shrugs with hands up emoticon

NotAnOtter · 03/10/2007 11:52

it would be no fun - people could remove and edit insults and faux pas NO No NO

littlelapin · 03/10/2007 11:51

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zippitippitoes · 03/10/2007 11:49

oh gawd more changes i shall have to return to the shadows again just as i was trying to get back to mn

UnquietDad · 03/10/2007 11:47

Why is that?

littlelapin · 03/10/2007 11:37

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UnquietDad · 03/10/2007 11:36

While I'm here what really annoys me sometimes is that you can't put text in the middle of the screen - it always defaults to left-margin even when you put spaces in. It messed up my spider cartoons!!

littlelapin · 03/10/2007 11:36

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satine · 03/10/2007 11:36

Gawd, no. I love MN dearly because it is straightforward, easy to read and simple. My dh frequents a site where 'quoting' is possible, and it is usually just screen after screen of the same posts being 'quoted'. And then replies are also 'quoted' in further posts....aarrgh! It looks awful and I always give up reading after a minute or two.

UnquietDad · 03/10/2007 11:35

I am on another site where the quoted section goes in a little box, so you can see straight away what's quoted and what's original. Like this (only better):

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|Originally posted by UnquietDad
|Quoting - I'm in two minds. It is sometimes
|useful to know who you are responding to, but
|that can a) make threads degenerate into
|two-person slanging matches and b) result in
|"fisking." This sounds rude but isn't - it's
|where people "deconstruct" arguments line by
|line and answer each point rather than the
|overall thrust.
|
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EricL · 03/10/2007 11:31

Yes ma'am.

I'll go find some more toys.

Laters.

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UnquietDad · 03/10/2007 11:31

A bit of Do It Yourself never goes amiss.

Aero · 03/10/2007 11:31

No to quote from me too, but I like the idea of a time limited edit function for my annoying typos. I don't always think to preview in time!

DumbledoresGirl · 03/10/2007 11:30

Thank you Eric.....point made. Go and fiddle with something else now, there's a good boy.

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EricL · 03/10/2007 11:29

I do enjoy a hefty tool in my hands i admit

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DumbledoresGirl · 03/10/2007 11:27

That's a new way of describing your manhood

themildmanneredaxemurderer · 03/10/2007 11:27

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EricL · 03/10/2007 11:26

Yeah - you're right i guess.

I do fiddle a lot.

With technical things that is.

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DumbledoresGirl · 03/10/2007 11:25

Eric, I knew you were the OP just by reading the title! Men eh? Always fiddling, never content to leave things alone!

Actually, I would like an edit button for the for sale thread so you can get rid of items from a list once they have sold. That would save a lot of people asking "is the X still available?" but I don't think an edit button would work well on those contentious threads. You can just see someone typing something rude, allowing a few people to read it and then editing it to something else and pretending they had never said it in the first place.

themildmanneredaxemurderer · 03/10/2007 11:24

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zippitippitoes · 03/10/2007 11:24

god i am too lazy to preview ..i post and fly

NadineBaggott · 03/10/2007 11:23

I'd like an edit button for if I change my mind about something I've written or to shift an apostrophe

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EricL · 03/10/2007 11:21

Purple severed heads?

Right - i'm definately off now.

That is a veiled threat and i'm not taking any chances now.....................

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