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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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Original poster
EricL · 03/10/2007 11:18

I do love it or i wouldn't be here. I'm not criticising it really - just making a helpful suggestion as nice as i can be.

(It's REALLY hard - i had to search deep down into my pshyce for that one....)

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ShinyHappyPurpleSeveredHeads · 03/10/2007 11:18

Ooh God that's soooo tedious when people quote large blocks of texts.. you can end up with a quote in a quote in a quote in a quote in a quote...

Why not jsut c & p what you are responding to?!

MyTwopenceworth · 03/10/2007 11:19

Editing makes nonsense of the thread. People go back and change wording, or message totally and when you read the whole thread it makes no sense!

I think a type of editing where you can go back and ADD to your post - underneath - like a P.S. could be useful - but I would not like a type where you could delete and reword. I think that would make for very confusing reading. You'd come to a thread and start reading and you'd be seeing people replying to points you can't see...oh, it would all get messy!

zippitippitoes · 03/10/2007 11:19

no straighteners which is what might dd recommended as it stays in and yuk hairsporay..how retro is that

nailpolish · 03/10/2007 11:19

god yes that crossing out is annoying and childish

Flamesparrow · 03/10/2007 11:19

No to editing

Original poster
EricL · 03/10/2007 11:19

Hoorah for Nadine!

One agreement and i am a happy boy.

Sad really isn't it?

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ShinyHappyPurpleSeveredHeads · 03/10/2007 11:19

(as has been suggested! )

nailpolish · 03/10/2007 11:20

zippi

retro but cool!

ConnorTraceptive · 03/10/2007 11:20

Would be very confusing if people edited their posts would mean you would have to re-read the thread over and over to make sure you had read all the changes. Sorry but would make my head hurt!

Plus people would always have to type a message saying "please refer to my original message and note changes" so pointless really.

Original poster
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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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

zippitippitoes · 03/10/2007 11:24

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

themildmanneredaxemurderer · 03/10/2007 11:24

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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.

Original poster
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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themildmanneredaxemurderer · 03/10/2007 11:27

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DumbledoresGirl · 03/10/2007 11:27

That's a new way of describing your manhood

Original poster
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 11:30

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

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!

UnquietDad · 03/10/2007 11:31

A bit of Do It Yourself never goes amiss.

Original poster
EricL · 03/10/2007 11:31

Yes ma'am.

I'll go find some more toys.

Laters.

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littlelapin · 03/10/2007 11:35

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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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