A General Observation On Constantly Quoting Our Friends On Ab

[Mosaic]

Is it me? But I'm seeing miles of page space taken up by //copying and pasting exactly what someone has posted// than adding one's own two pennorth.
This then becomes part of an online copy and pasting competition between a small group of combatants.

It's exactly like a yearning for 1990s IT has broken out. remember? When forums automatically churned out miles of unnecessary text?

[andy-hughes]

Boo - //AndyH, God love him is the main culprit for this, and I really do love him dearly, but I can't being myself to read his looooooooooooooooooong posts with the downright weird //'s thrown in. What is wrong with using the quote marks on your keyboard? //

Thank you - love you too!

I got the // from AOG, and it allows you to quote speech in the copied bit without confusion.

Sorry if you don't like it, but I genuinely believe it saves confusion - I have seen several times where people query and then re-query posts, but there is confusion over which one the responses are referring to.

xx

[B00]

wouldn't the correct use of "'s do exactly the same thing?

And I think your wordy answers are more my problem than yours, I've the attention span of a gnat andy, my eyes glaze over by the 2nd paragraph of anyone's post, no offense meant x

[andy-hughes]

Absolutely none taken sweet pea xx

[MargoTester]

Wouldn't 're AH post at 15.23' be sufficient if people are that interested the can scroll back. It would save an awful lot of space.

[-Talbot-]

Personally I would have been able to follow the thread if andy had just posted.









B00
Thank you - love you too!

I got the // from AOG, and it allows you to quote speech in the copied bit without confusion.

Sorry if you don't like it, but I genuinely believe it saves confusion - I have seen several times where people query and then re-query posts, but there is confusion over which one the responses are referring to.

xx

[andy-hughes]

Margo - //It would save an awful lot of space. //

It's ok, this is cyber space, we don't have to pay for it, and we are not limited! x

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //Personally I would have been able to follow the thread if andy had just posted. //

I am tempted to make a comment about you following threads, but in the interests of good relations, I'll refrain!

[MargoTester]

Andy //.............// I haven't yet managed to learn how to copy and paste on my iPad so basically I'm knackered!! So I'll just have to refer back if I wish to comment (which isn't very often)

[stuey]

What's with all the /////// \\\\\\\? What happened to the good old " "?

[jomifl]

Talbot, generall two identical passages of text look kind of ...identical, paragraphs, spacing, etc.

[-Talbot-]

andy-hughes
Talbot - //Personally I would have been able to follow the thread if andy had just posted. //

I am tempted to make a comment about you following threads, but in the interests of good relations, I'll refrain!



No...go ahead

[andy-hughes]

I think I've done as much falling out with AB'ers today as I would want to - but thanks for the offer - maybe another day.

Have a good evening.

[-Talbot-]

Ah, you have been falling out with ABers!
Well I guess it takes all sorts to make the interenet go round.

[stuey]

"What's with all the /////// \\\\\\\? What happened to the good old " "? "
I copied and pasted that.

[stuey]

Oops! I just realized that B00 asked the same question.

[Mosaic]

//"What's with all the /////// \\\\\\\? What happened to the good old " "? "
I copied and pasted that. //

Hey did you see what i did there?!!

My belief is that the //////s come from old 'computer experts' raised in the days when inserting " " would cause t'interweb to implode and make your pc cease up like a u-bend filled with beef dripping.

[stuey]

"Hey did you see what i did there?!!" That's precisely what I meant, Mosaic:) Anyway, it seems to me that the // \\ usage is a relative new fashion.

[Mosaic]

Lolsters Stuey.
Irony doesn't convey well electronically even with emoticons.

"I got you first time"

[naomi24]

I use // on either side of the bit I’m responding to simply to distinguish it clearly and keep the post tidy.

Example: First with “….”, second with //….//



“"What's with all the /////// \\\\\\\? What happened to the good old " "? "”

// "What's with all the /////// \\\\\\\? What happened to the good old " "? //