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

[EricL]

(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?

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.

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!!

Why is that?

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

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

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

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