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This thread is for testing ideas to encourage trimming quoted text. | |
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[TRIM_THIS_quote]This thread is for testing ideas to encourage trimming quoted text. | |
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[TRIM_THIS_quote][TRIM_THIS_quote]This thread is for testing ideas to encourage trimming quoted text. | |
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I'm about to test it without the extra tag in the middle. Does it work, or doesn't it? | |
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[TRIM_THIS_quote]I'm about to test it without the extra tag in the middle. Does it work, or doesn't it? | |
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Eventually it will, but not tonight. ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats | |
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Eventually it will, but not tonight. [/quote] So how do you do the quote....changed one trim tag, and left the first one in. ____________ BOINC WIKI ![]() ![]() Dirty John Rackham | |
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Eventually it will, but not tonight. [/TRIM_THIS_quote] So how do you do the quote....changed one trim tag, and left the first one in.[/TRIM_THIS_quote] This may be more annoying than the current quoting system. Oh well we will see. ____________ BOINC WIKI ![]() ![]() Dirty John Rackham | |
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Agreed. It has to be just annoying enough that people will trim their quotes, but easy enough for them to do so. Maybe [ DEAD_quote ] is simpler? I've only got half of it working (the easy part). If you leave the quote untouched then it should be removed when you post. The challenging part is that it has to deal with nested quotes properly. And what exactly is 'properly'? If it's too annoying we'll drop it. ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats | |
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Some of the quote gets through... Good, that worked as it should. ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats | |
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Yup, now it works! Not so hard to work with. Looks like a good mod! ____________ ![]() Click and enter your name for your BOINC Statistics | |
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There are also those who just leave their quotes messed up no matter how they display. | |
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I like the text on the side. As soon as you introduce this quoting, you'll find people posting "how do I do this?" as they never read the side menu. ;) | |
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There are also those who just leave their quotes messed up no matter how they display. Aye, there always will be. This way though, if they don't do anything at all, which seems to be the usual case, then the quote doesn't show up. And if they just change the opening tag but not the closing tag, it doesn't show up. I suppose we could also change any remaining "TRIM_THIS.." strings to something like "I_WAS_TOO_LAZY_AND_INCONSIDERATE_TO_TRIM_THIS...", but I doubt we need that. If we do, it's rather easy to set up. :-) ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats | |
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I like the text on the side. As soon as you introduce this quoting, you'll find people posting "how do I do this?" as they never read the side menu. ;) No doubt. That is why I made it red. After we all get used to it we can change the color to black. ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats | |
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Okay, we'll try this new quoting out for a bit and see if we need to tweak it. | |
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Okay, here's another idea for keeping down the number of overly quoted posts. I'm guessing that many people just hit "reply to post" even when they just want to add something to the thread. They don't bother to remove the quoted text and just add their comment. What they really wanted to do was "reply to thread", but that link is all the way at the bottom (or top) of the page. | |
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Okay, here's another idea for keeping down the number of overly quoted posts. I'm guessing that many people just hit "reply to post" even when they just want to add something to the thread. They don't bother to remove the quoted text and just add their comment. What they really wanted to do was "reply to thread", but that link is all the way at the bottom (or top) of the page. It took me exactly ten seconds (or so :) to (as I read here, correctly) deduce the meaning of additional "Reply to thread" link near each post. I'd like to see the font smaller, maybe to match the size of message ID and date and rating, so that I could intuitively click the "default" one - "Reply to this post" link without a need to compate the two texts - my 0.02 cents :-) Having only the outer [quotes] marked with TRIM_THIS_ is possibly good trade-off between someone editing too much and otherone fully ignoring the quotes. ____________ Peter .-) ![]() | |
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There is one other thing to consider: nested quoting. We could either Seeing they are nested quotes, can't you use [Nested_quote][/Nested_quote] as a whole quote option? I mean so both [ quote][ /quote] and [nested_quote][/nested_quote] can work? Or would that become too complicated? Comments? Other option would be to re-introduce the box quotes. But that needs html, doesn't it? ____________ Jord. The BOINC FAQ Service. | |
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I am afraid I don't know what this means. ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats | |
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At one point in time when they were still inbetween HTML forums and BBCode, we had some blockquotes, followed by a whole box around the quotes, to the line at the side of the quotes. | |
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At one point in time when they were still inbetween HTML forums and BBCode, we had some blockquotes, followed by a whole box around the quotes, to the line at the side of the quotes. And whats to stop what I have just done and remove the trim_this_ bit, weill it show the quote still well lets see Edit so We can still all be easy and just removed the bit in the code ____________ Join us in Chat (see the forum) Click the Sig ![]() Join UBT | |
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At one point in time when they were still inbetween HTML forums and BBCode, we had some blockquotes, followed by a whole box around the quotes, to the line at the side of the quotes. We sort of have this now with the different colored backgrounds, but the color differences are so subtle that they may not be visible on some graphics cards. This is something that I can tweak in the CSS. (There is also a problem with how the <blockquote> CSS gets propagated to every <blockquote> on the site, not just in the forums. See, for example, the description of the starsphere on E@H (not here). I know how to fix this, but won't suggest it until we are on the CVS HEAD.) ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats | |
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At one point in time when they were still inbetween HTML forums and BBCode, we had some blockquotes, followed by a whole box around the quotes, to the line at the side of the quotes. How's it look now? Perhaps too separated from the new text? ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats | |
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Edit: so We can still all be easy and just removed the bit in the code Exactly. It's very easy to edit the tags to enable the quote, and hopefully trim the quoted text as well. But if you are lazy and do not trim the TRIM_THIS_ bit out then nothing gets quoted. ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats | |
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Now, that looks better. Thinking out of the box then, different background colours for the different nested quotes? | |
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I can almost guarantee that the "Reply to thread" and "Reply to this post" links will be confusing to some people. I run a board and half of them still can't understand the differences between a thread, a post and a topic after a year plus of posting. | |
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I can almost guarantee that the "Reply to thread" and "Reply to this post" links will be confusing to some people. I suspect so as well. How about "Post to thread" (without the word reply) and "reply to THIS post" (to emphasize the difference). As it is, if someone uses either and just starts typing, they add to the thread but don't add overly quoted stuff. Some small progress. ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats | |
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Some small progress. True. Now if someone could only figure out how to get the person's computer to do something like this to them ![]() ____________ ![]() | |
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Some small progress. :-) Actually, I think we could do that. If the quoted text is longer than a certain amount then substitute the [ img] link instead. But now I'm more interested in trimming long signature images. ;-) In fact, it should now be the case that one cannot put an image tag in a signature. ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats | |
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So here's an odd one for you. | |
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But now I'm more interested in trimming long signature images. ;-) Image still there. ____________ ![]() Click and enter your name for your BOINC Statistics | |
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How about changing 'Post to thread' to 'Broadside' and 'Reply to THIS post' to 'Single shot' | |
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IMHO, most newbs would miss the message about trimming quoted material, or not understand it. | |
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The default behaviour amongst a bunch of newbs would lead to no quotes in posts. Instead of the entire previous messasge being reposted. Mission accomplished. ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats | |
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[EDIT: Forget it - the double quoting had me all confused... Nice feature, though!] | |
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No computer pirate in my sig anymore? :-( EDIT: Phew, it's still there. :-) ____________ [color=navy][size=12][b]Those who can, do.
Those who can't, bully.[/b][/size][/color] From here | |
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Yes, but if you edit your sig now you will have to choose between the two. The current policy is that only one image is allowed per signature. ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats | |
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The Germans would say: Qual der Wahl, or, THIS one or THAT one? I'd choose the parrot ;-) (Or even better some shiny jewel case? Pssssssst!) ____________ Peter .-) ![]() | |
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Yes, but if you edit your sig now you will have to choose between the two. The current policy is that only one image is allowed per signature. That's only half right. If you change ANYTHING in your forum prefs your sig get's hit. I changed one little checkbox and I lost a pic. ____________ ![]() | |
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