A humble request from your much-beleaguered moderator

[_Jersey Girl]

Bond

As an example take the below where we have a conversation back and forth:

That's my point exactly, Bond. Having a conversation back and forth. How are we to track the "back and forth" for ourselves or for the reader, without using the quote boxes?

Jersey Girl

[_Bond...James Bond]

That's my point exactly, Bond. Having a conversation back and forth. How are we to track the "back and forth" for ourselves or for the reader, without using the quote boxes?

Jersey Girl

By reading the threads. It's not like the big quote pyramid is the only evidence of the conversation, since that conversation was written earlier in the same thread. It just gets annoying for some readers to read the same thing over and over, or to have to scroll through several hundred words of quotes to get to two new sentences of dialogue.

[_Jersey Girl]

That's my point exactly, Bond. Having a conversation back and forth. How are we to track the "back and forth" for ourselves or for the reader, without using the quote boxes?

Jersey Girl

By reading the threads. It's not like the big quote pyramid is the only evidence of the conversation, since that conversation was written earlier in the same thread. It just gets annoying for some readers to read the same thing over and over, or to have to scroll thrown several hundred words of quotes to get to two new sentences of dialogue.

It also gets annoying reading off topic half assed trollish remarks in these discussions that serve no earthly purpose other than to disrupt the thread and that is why some people use the quote boxes, to pick the dialogue back up.

As for me and my house, I'm growing increasingly sick of it. And yes, I do know where the door is.

[_harmony]

I remember when we used to run out of bandwidth before we ran out of month, and how annoying it was to not be able to post.

No one's asking for the conversation to be cut off. If the quote boxes are needed, use them. If they are left in just because it's easier, then delete them. Let's keep a tidy house.

And yes, I'm as bad as anyone for being lazy or neglectful. So when I'm not doing my part to keep things neat, go ahead and remind me. I promise to only deadhead the flowers, not the posters.

[_Bond...James Bond]

Moderation Note: If this thread has given readers the wrong impression, I hope this post will eliminate them. We're not having a bandwidth problem or anything. Shades simply wants to delete gigantic quote pyramids. One or two or three is fine....but when its a back and forth between two posters that creates huge quote pyramids, well that's what we're trying to avoid. If you know how to cut the extra quoted material (and it's a long line of dialogue) then please cut it. If you don't want to fool with it...then don't and a mod will edit some of the quote material out (if they see it of course).

That doesn't mean everything will be deleted and no new material will be tampered with. It simply means that some of the oldest quoted stuff that has already been repeated several times will be removed. This isn't mandatory or anything, but the Moderators would just appreciate it if you who can do a little of your own moderating will help us out a bit and remove extra quoted material.

Thanks
Bond

[_Polygamy Porter]

What about words like RETARD and NAZI?

[_Dr. Shades]

It's not like the big quote pyramid is the only evidence of the conversation, since that conversation was written earlier in the same thread. It just gets annoying for some readers to read the same thing over and over, or to have to scroll thrown several hundred words of quotes to get to two new sentences of dialogue.

It also gets annoying reading off topic half assed trollish remarks in these discussions that serve no earthly purpose other than to disrupt the thread and that is why some people use the quote boxes, to pick the dialogue back up.

That may be true, but most folks here have lots of experience with message boards and can keep all that stuff straight just by reading one quote immediately beforehand followed by your response.

If there was only one quote pyramid at the very end of the thread, then your point would be well-taken, but the problem is that failure to delete extraneous quoted material results in many, many quote pyramids. So your dialogue ends up getting picked back up not just once, but perhaps five, six, or even more times. Forgive me, but the instances when you and Polygamy Porter have a disagreement are perfect examples of that phenomenon.

Also, I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say that nobody reads the excess quoted material anyway. We all just scroll down for the most recent response is all.

At the very end of the day, however, quote pyramids are like smilies: They just make the board look trashy and unprofessional. Sorry, but that's just the way I see it.

So, once again, please delete extraneous quoted material.

[_asbestosman]

Why don't we get one of the techies to rewrite the software so it automagically fixes quote pyramids? You know, kinda like how you opted for Satan's plan in auto-correcting our spelling.

[_Dr. Shades]

Excuse me....may I ask why f*** and s*** are considered worse that "bitch" "damn" "prick" or others that have been listed here?

That's just the nature of human communication. In any language, some words are considered more vulgar than others.

Where I come from you could get your butt kicked for calling someone a "bitch" or "prick" and f*** and s*** are merely forms of expression. Except in the case of f*** you of course.

I'm curious why two words are singled out, can you explain?

That's because although the "F" and "S" words may be considered less offensive within the spoken word in some parts of the country, when it comes to the written word--which is all we deal with here on this message board--those two are still considered more vulgar than the rest.

Why don't we get one of the techies to rewrite the software so it automagically fixes quote pyramids? You know, kinda like how you opted for Satan's plan in auto-correcting our spelling.

Because it's beyond the board software's technological capacity at present.

[_Gazelam]

I was guilty of quoting curse words in the Terrestrial, and even though it was an effort to stop the cursing, I added to it. My apologies.

I also think it odd that when someone posts a responce, they quote the directly written above three paragraph post above their responce. Is that really necessary?

Thanbk you moderators for all your hard work

Gaz