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When quoting multiple posts....

faeriemoon — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 12:15:16 GMT

..... sometimes it's hard to tell where one ends and the new response begins. Methinks the boxes were better....

Re: When quoting multiple posts....

brii — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 12:49:57 GMT

I agree.

Re: When quoting multiple posts....

Say Nay — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:02:05 GMT

I have a heck of a time trying to figure out who said what. And they should keep the OP at the top of the page. I keep having to scroll down because I have oldest posts at the bottom of my page.

Re: When quoting multiple posts....

colliegirls — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:31:01 GMT

I totally agree!! We need boxes or shading.

Re: When quoting multiple posts....

qualitygal — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:34:18 GMT

Just from what I've noticed, I could be wrong, but they seem to lighten the other responses or quotes. The darkest one at the bottom is the newest comments. There's grey lines down the left side by other's remarks. See what you think, that's my guess.

Re: When quoting multiple posts....

CaliKat — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:34:52 GMT

They should have left the boxes, or put something new in to better differentiate one post from another.

But, since they didn't, what I do is, if I quote a post, I divide my reponse from their post myself, by putting in a line between them, like this:

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Hopefully they will rectify this, but in the meantime it's easy to do it yourself, and it makes it so much clearer to the reader, who wrote what.

Re: When quoting multiple posts....

faeriemoon — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:48:36 GMT

@qualitygal wrote:
Just from what I've noticed, I could be wrong, but they seem to lighten the other responses or quotes. The darkest one at the bottom is the newest comments. There's grey lines down the left side by other's remarks. See what you think, that's my guess.

You're right about that. But I find, when doing a quick read, I have to go back and check those verticle gey lines a lot.

Re: When quoting multiple posts....

faeriemoon — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:49:28 GMT

@CaliKat wrote:
They should have left the boxes, or put something new in to better differentiate one post from another.

But, since they didn't, what I do is, if I quote a post, I divide my reponse from their post myself, by putting in a line between them, like this:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hopefully they will rectify this, but in the meantime it's easy to do it yourself, and it makes it so much clearer to the reader, who wrote what.

That's a good idea. Maybe they'll get the hint and do it for us.

Re: When quoting multiple posts....

lainey1 — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 14:34:42 GMT

faeriemoon wrote:
..... sometimes it's hard to tell where one ends and the new response begins. Methinks the boxes were better....

If I remember, I try to change the font color (like I did above) of the post I'm quoting and place quite a few spaces between the quote and my answer. It does help a bit, I think.

I agree, when we had the quotes in boxes it was easier to follow.

Re: When quoting multiple posts....

faeriemoon — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 14:51:15 GMT

Changing the font color is a good idea; too bad we can't set it to a color we like. I do the extra space thing when I remember, I think that helps too.

Re: When quoting multiple posts....

hckynutjohn — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 15:28:12 GMT

I have never even tried to read posts with multiple quotes even in the old(and much superior) previous BB format. If I wanted to add a post, I deleted all "quotes", except the one I was quoting.-------- My suggestion? Since they seem to love to upgrade(?), allow only 1 quote in each post. More posts?..YES. Easier to know who said what to whom? No question, YES!----------------- hckynut(john)

Re: When quoting multiple posts....

SaRina — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 15:33:58 GMT

@faeriemoon wrote:
..... sometimes it's hard to tell where one ends and the new response begins. Methinks the boxes were better....

Ya think?

I think everything was better.

Re: When quoting multiple posts....

faeriemoon — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 15:53:30 GMT

@hckynutjohn wrote:
I have never even tried to read posts with multiple quotes even in the old(and much superior) previous BB format. If I wanted to add a post, I deleted all "quotes", except the one I was quoting.-------- My suggestion? Since they seem to love to upgrade(?), allow only 1 quote in each post. More posts?..YES. Easier to know who said what to whom? No question, YES!----------------- hckynut(john)

Another good idea.

Re: When quoting multiple posts....

chickenbutt — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:00:57 GMT

I would agree about just deleting all the older quotes and leaving up the last one, eto which you are responding.

It's unusual, except on this board, to see such long quoting. There's probably no way to do it well so if posters don't keep extending the quote upon quote upon quote, etc, it will be legible.

It seems like 9 times out of 10 those multiple quote posts are some childish back and forth between two people and it's not worth reading anyway.

Re: When quoting multiple posts....

muttmom — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:18:25 GMT

Generally the poster is responding to the last post. All others should be deleted.

If you are responding to other posts in the multiple array, address them individually.

Multiple posts have always been a nightmare. I see some of the more prolific posters doing it frequently. I think some posters do not know how to delete them.

Re: When quoting multiple posts....

corita — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 17:58:42 GMT

@CaliKat wrote:
They should have left the boxes, or put something new in to better differentiate one post from another.

But, since they didn't, what I do is, if I quote a post, I divide my reponse from their post myself, by putting in a line between them, like this:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hopefully they will rectify this, but in the meantime it's easy to do it yourself, and it makes it so much clearer to the reader, who wrote what.

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I also type a line in before I quote! I have thought about deleting prior posts, but always wonder if someone won't be offended that their post was deleted! When I am quoting to a long post, sometimes I delete all but the part I am answering!