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[GCR18]

Not usually.  

[MaggieMack]

@chickenbutt, re: responses that wind up within the quoted area 

I know how that happens because it has happened to me. I type the @ sign, the poster's name comes up, and when my fat little finger tries to select the poster, the poster below that one gets inserted instead. So I backspace, and if I'm not careful, it will be too aggressive and the cursor winds up within the quotation bar and it can't be moved out.

When that happens, I just hit the cancel button and start over.

I have wondered if others have as much of a problem selecting a poster from the pop up window as I do.

[jonbon]

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@IamMrsG wrote:

I knew a man who, when describing what it was like for him to talk to his father, said, "Ask him a question, and he'll tell you a paragraph."  I thought that was one of the most apt descriptions I'd ever heard.

She hasn't been around for a while, but there was a poster who went on and on and on and on and...in turquoise font, no less.  

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A preschool teacher once said the following about my daughter: Don't ask her a question if you don't have time to hear the answer!

My 13-year-old son has a lot of difficulty relating things succinctly. My husband often says it takes him longer to tell you the plot of a TV show (for example) than it would take to actually watch the show.

[sgraham30]

No, I do not, especially when the author doesn't bother breaking the post out into paragraphs.

[colliegirls]

NOPE!

[RainCityWoman]

My dad's sister was an educated woman with a fabulous vocabulary and many cogent thoughts, but often when she would begin to tell us something big and important, she would lapse into what I refer to as "stream of consciousness" exposition. She would start out on track, but then through word association somehow she would go off on other tangents straying miles from where she began. We would listen just so long, and then my dad would loudly say, "MARIE! Cut to the chase. What is the terribly important thing you wanted to tell us!

PS: Was this too long?

[sailor_moon]

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@MaggieMack wrote:

@chickenbutt, re: responses that wind up within the quoted area 

@I know how that happens because it has happened to me. I type the @ sign, the poster's name comes up, and when my fat little finger tries to select the poster, the poster below that one gets inserted instead. So I backspace, and if I'm not careful, it will be too aggressive and the cursor winds up within the quotation bar and it can't be moved out.

When that happens, I just hit the cancel button and start over.

I have wondered if others have as much of a problem selecting a poster from the pop up window as I do.

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@MaggieMack, I temporarily make my screen bigger when I'm selecting a name from the pop up window.

I don't have chubby fingers, just really bad aim.🎯

[NickNack]

I read them if it's a subject that I'm interested in.  I don't read them, though, if there are no paragraph breaks or if the font is too small.  I like for the font to be 3 or above.

[missy1]

Only ILH.

[sfnative]

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@Campion wrote:

I do read them, IF THERE ARE PARAGRAPH BREAKS. If not, skim on by. I hate long blocks of text without breaks. Very difficult to keep one's place, let alone the writing tends not to be as organized. Paragraphs organize topics and thoughts. 

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@Campion

Honestly, I believe that these days such written skills have gone by the side of the education road.

However, while participating in non-profit (avocation), our committee would receive e-mails from the Chair who typed everything in caps and no  paragraph in site.  This lady was very well educated and had a ton of bucks, so I finally got up the nerve to speak with her (I was low on the ladder at that time). 

Basically, my discussion with her revolved around the fact that typing in all caps is like yelling at someone in text.  She was clueless: had no idea that that was the perception received.  When moving onto the one humongous paragraph style of presenting information, once again she said/feigned knowledge of this and that it was new to her.

I didn't buy it.

A week later she approached me and apologized for the conversation we had.  She knew all along what she was doing.  She indicated it just saved her time(!)