tommus wrote:Regarding quoting within a new post, I have a suggestion that I think would improve the readability and usefulness of the posts. Some posts include the entirety of an earlier long post, with maybe just a very short sentence or even just a word or two, such as "I agree", even when the quoted post was the previous post in the thread. Nobody is going to read the quoted part. Needless clutter.
Suggestion (if it is technically feasible): Limit the quote to a certain size (maybe three lines). That would ensure that the quote gets edited to highlight the relevant part, or it just defaults to the first three lines.
That would make quoting more meaningful and more useful.
I don't think this is a useful regulation or a real technical need.
Look, if you had limited my quote to 3 lines you'd miss the I'm talking about the tech part.
OTH, I agree, it makes sense to be frugal in your quoting. But that's for each of us to manage.
If I'm on my phone, sorry, not going to edit the quote much.
BTW, can I use standard internet short hand like OTH and BTW or are we also going to limit that to circa HTLAL 2005?