RANT about quoting on the Forum

[djheater]

frivolous nested quoting is actually bannable. Mods pull out the nuke button when people start getting stupid with it.

Personally it doesn't really bother me.

 

[acemcmac]

WHO CARES?

 

[randalee]

Just me, I suppose. Thanks for reading!

 

[mzkhadir]

Mod was on a banning spree.

 

[Cuda1447]

rofl @ the ownage in this thread!

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: acemcmac
WHO CARES?

Not me

 

[MisterJackson]

I triple dog dare someone to qoute the last nested reply......man, what a bunch of numbnuts.


Another is below you

 

[bigfil]

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz

Originally posted by: DeadByDawn

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: supafly

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: randalee
I've been away from ATOT for quite a few months. One thing I've noticed A LOT of is quoting without "cleaning" up before making the post. Is it the new "quick reply" tool that is making people lazy? I've never seen such ridiculous quoting in my whole Intarweb Forum-lurker career:

Originally posted by: Zap Brannigan

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: Zap Brannigan

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug

Originally posted by: Zap Brannigan

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug

Originally posted by: compnovice

Originally posted by: Zap Brannigan

And that's not the worst of it! This was just a quickie example I parsed. So just a reminder to all -- can we clean up the quotes before we make our post official? No need to quote 10 or 15 layers deep.

Okay, I'm done now.

I agree!

Yeah when it gets that long it's just hard to read.

then the quotes themsevles get all messed up.

I can still read it no problem.

Fixed for the OP.

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I may be able to get a even dozen by the time I am done

Adios

Mod

thank you

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The lack of understanding amazes me.

I hope that you are thanking me for the 1 WK vacation that you just earned.

Mod

 

[loup garou]

I don't like to say I told you so, but, hell...I told you so!

 

[Metron]

ENTRAPMENT!

 

[Ime]

I would think threads like these lighten up a pretty frustrating job for Mods. I mean, if I were a Mod, I'd be laughing my ass off at the idiots that are all but asking for a ban!

 

[dugweb]

it's never bothered me... infact, One of my favorite threads of all time was heavy with nested quotes Link to thread :laugh:

 

[Shawn]

I don't know why they don't just fix the software.

 

[Conky]

You'd think this is the first time someone got banned for doing this! :roll:

Some folks never learn.

 

[Thraxen]

Meh... seems kind of lame to be banning for doing the nested quotes in this thread. That was obviously going to happen due to the OP. Anytime anyone posts a thread saying "stop doing X", people always respond with X. Yet I've never seen anyone banned for it before. Just lock thread if you don't want the nested quotes.

 

[Maxspeed996]

Originally posted by: Beachboy

Originally posted by: randalee
I've been away from ATOT for quite a few months. One thing I've noticed A LOT of is quoting without "cleaning" up before making the post. Is it the new "quick reply" tool that is making people lazy? I've never seen such ridiculous quoting in my whole Intarweb Forum-lurker career:

quote:
Originally posted by: Zap Brannigan

quote:
Originally posted by: waggy

quote:
Originally posted by: Zap Brannigan

quote:
Originally posted by: Corporate Thug

quote:
Originally posted by: Zap Brannigan

quote:
Originally posted by: Corporate Thug

quote:
Originally posted by: compnovice

quote:
Originally posted by: Zap Brannigan

And that's not the worst of it! This was just a quickie example I parsed. So just a reminder to all -- can we clean up the quotes before we make our post official? No need to quote 10 or 15 layers deep.

Okay, I'm done now.

Nope, not gonna do it. If it bothered the board owner he could change it.

Feel free to quote me.

ARRR!!! I quote thee!!

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: Thraxen
Meh... seems kind of lame to be banning for doing the nested quotes in this thread. That was obviously going to happen due to the OP. Anytime anyone posts a thread saying "stop doing X", people always respond with X. Yet I've never seen anyone banned for it before. Just lock thread if you don't want to nested quotes.

Agreed, and if you're going to ban people for reacting as expected, poster should get a ban equal to all the bans in the thread combined.

 

[Jeff7]

Anyone that has nested quotes more than 2 deep in this thread is now on vacation for a week for Neffing quotes.

Anandtech Moderator

Threads like this are like big strips of Nefpaper hanging from the ceiling of ATOT, while the mods stand around to personally pick each little Nef-fly off, pluck off their wings, and flush them down the toilet.

Thinning the herd.

 

[iRONic]

Bantastic thread!!

 

[RapidSnail]

How many more morons are going to quote more the two layers?

And what's the score?

 

[jimbob200521]

Originally posted by: RapidSnail
How many more morons are going to quote more the two layers?

And what's the score?

I'm too lazy to count, isn't it up to four now?

 

[imported_Lucifer]

So rather than to just lock a thread that will just ask for nested quoting, and that has been reposted a thousand times, mods decide to just leave it open to ban people. Reminds me of the change of culture thread.

The way of the mod amazes me.



I am confident in saying that your amazement won't last much longer. The way you run your mouth is sure to bring out the permaban stick. Keep it up.
AnandTech Moderator

 

[mzkhadir]

Originally posted by: jimbob200521

I'm too lazy to count, isn't it up to four now?

Its up to 5

 

[rise]

Originally posted by: Lucifer
So rather than to just lock a thread that will just ask for nested quoting, and that has been reposted a thousand times, mods decide to just leave it open to ban people. Reminds me of the change of culture thread.

The way of the mod amazes me.

i like it. ban 'em all.

 

[KillyKillall]

Originally posted by: bigfil

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz

Originally posted by: DeadByDawn

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: supafly

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: randalee
I've been away from ATOT for quite a few months. One thing I've noticed A LOT of is quoting without "cleaning" up before making the post. Is it the new "quick reply" tool that is making people lazy? I've never seen such ridiculous quoting in my whole Intarweb Forum-lurker career:

Originally posted by: Zap Brannigan

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: Zap Brannigan

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug

Originally posted by: Zap Brannigan

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug

Originally posted by: compnovice

Originally posted by: Zap Brannigan

And that's not the worst of it! This was just a quickie example I parsed. So just a reminder to all -- can we clean up the quotes before we make our post official? No need to quote 10 or 15 layers deep.

Okay, I'm done now.

I agree!

Yeah when it gets that long it's just hard to read.

then the quotes themsevles get all messed up.

I can still read it no problem.

Fixed for the OP.

-------------------------------------
I may be able to get a even dozen by the time I am done

Adios

Mod

thank you

----------------------------------------------------------------------
The lack of understanding amazes me.

I hope that you are thanking me for the 1 WK vacation that you just earned.

Mod

Stop all the non-sense.

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Nice Try on the Edit - To slow

Anandtech Moderator