Option "Quote Previous" vs blanket "Quote All" we have now
In a recent thread of comments at the following link(( http://videosift.com/video/Christian-Bakery-Denies-Service-to-Gay-Couple )) I enjoyed reading the mudslinging as usual. But, very quickly, everything became dis-interesting.
Not because it wasn't still a witch hunt for homophobes, because there was simply TOO MUCH QUOTING! Stacks upon stacks upon stacks of blocked off text for one person's post were simply making the page more difficult to read.
This problem was only made worse when person A quotes person B who also quoted person C, etc. In those cases, it's almost a repeating of nearly the entire conversation and really isn't needed (often).
Here's my suggestion: when it comes to a thread like that can we create two options for quoting:
Quote Previous - Only the most recent comment is repeated in the new comment.
Quote All - threads of conversation can continue as they have been stacking quotes upon quotes if that's what you wish so that new tangents in the conversation can form.
Discuss.
Not because it wasn't still a witch hunt for homophobes, because there was simply TOO MUCH QUOTING! Stacks upon stacks upon stacks of blocked off text for one person's post were simply making the page more difficult to read.
This problem was only made worse when person A quotes person B who also quoted person C, etc. In those cases, it's almost a repeating of nearly the entire conversation and really isn't needed (often).
Here's my suggestion: when it comes to a thread like that can we create two options for quoting:
Quote Previous - Only the most recent comment is repeated in the new comment.
Quote All - threads of conversation can continue as they have been stacking quotes upon quotes if that's what you wish so that new tangents in the conversation can form.
Discuss.
8 Comments
Makes sense to me.
Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
We might be better of just changing it to only allow quoting the previous - without the full stack. That's been suggested in one of the VS5 threads I think.
STOP BEING NOOBS PPL !
I second this, it'd be great... as it's hard to sift through the included text when you do use 'quote' to find where to start and stop the chopping out of unwanted comments as it currently stands.
Quote previous post only - I like it.
Personally, I don't see what the big deal is.>> ^gwiz665:
Makes sense to me.
>> ^dag:
We might be better of just changing it to only allow quoting the previous - without the full stack. That's been suggested in one of the VS5 threads I think.
>> ^BoneRemake:
STOP BEING NOOBS PPL !
>> ^spoco2:
I second this, it'd be great... as it's hard to sift through the included text when you do use 'quote' to find where to start and stop the chopping out of unwanted comments as it currently stands.
>> ^Sagemind:
Quote previous post only - I like it.
Some times it just breaks when there's many layers.>> ^kymbos:
Personally, I don't see what the big deal is.>> ^gwiz665:
Makes sense to me.
>> ^dag:
We might be better of just changing it to only allow quoting the previous - without the full stack. That's been suggested in one of the VS5 threads I think.
>> ^BoneRemake:
STOP BEING NOOBS PPL !
>> ^spoco2:
I second this, it'd be great... as it's hard to sift through the included text when you do use 'quote' to find where to start and stop the chopping out of unwanted comments as it currently stands.
>> ^Sagemind:
Quote previous post only - I like it.
Not sure if you're taking me seriously or not. I hope not, because I was attempting to demonstrate how shitty it is when people quote lots of other people, by quoting every comment in the thread...
Discuss...
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