Quote facility?

[FlouncyMcFlouncer]

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...

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.

Yes, I probably did
Sorry

"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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Wendeville, 'bloody' isn't proper swearing 'cos my mother says it and she gets really cross if I say 'fuck'.

Aww Tee. That's made me feel all festive and warm inside 873 elderly relatives, all on transmit, none on receive and lubricated by alcohol. It's exactly like a MN thread. Bunfights, misquotes, inebriation, er, flouncing.

Thanks SOH, I confess to struggling to get the search facililty to show me anything of use and I didn't use the advanced option

You'd better join us on the naughty step too

Actually, I covet a glittery ticker, but they have no place here

You do? What would it say?

So why didn't you quote when you were replying to a post instead of addressing her by her name then?

Exactly, Show!!! So totally Christmas dinner around here!

Flouncy, why would I find that unpleasant to hear? In order for it to be unpleasant to hear I'd have to give a flying fuck what you, a stranger on a website, who I will never meet, thinks about me. Sorry if that's unpleasant to hear.

See? I did it again. Quoted you without a quote facility!! Go me!

Sorry, was that rude?

Gawd knows!

Advanced search is really useful if you use it properly. I used to use it improperly and end up reading threads about why is my baby's poo green. Not that green poo isn't riveting but I was looking for a chicken casserole recipe.

at all the cross-posts. Maybe we do need a quote facility!

savoycabbage I'm not sure who you were talking to then. Now, if only we had a quote facility....

Tee, I'm glad you don't care. It will make being just as rude in future much easier for you, wont it?

The op I was talking to. Of we had a quote facility I could quote where she didn't use a quote, then when I asked why she didn't use a quote, then when you asked me who I was talking to about quotes. Then we would all know exactly where we were.

I agree with others - I don't use other forums (I am NOT saying fora before anyone has a fit of the vapours) but when I have read them I find them very annoying as the world and his wife quotes within quotes and it makes the conversation stilted.

If you want to reference a bit of what someone has said, there is a kind of informal convention on MN that you just copy that bit and put it in bold or something. That works fine, I don't think anything else is needed or would enhance the Mumsnet Experience?.

I really am quite content to be outvoted. My original question was 'Is there a good reason...?' and you have all told me what the reason is.

savoycabbage that last post scrambled my brain so much I don't even know who I am, let alone where we all are.