Re: New Version
By: The Millionaire to echicken on Tue Sep 22 2020 20:06:33
How about auto-quoting on ecweb?
To expand on my previous statement ...
When replying in a textmode session (eg. via telnet), one normally opts into quoting the parent message. Then you choose which lines to quote. The idea being to only quote stuff that's relevant to your reply.
On the web, it'd be annoying to emulate the "choose which lines you want to quote" method. The easy alternative would be to auto-quote the entire parent message, and hope that people will trim out any text that isn't related to their response.
The problem is that by default, a reply from the web would include the entire body of the parent message. Unless the replier trims it, it will all be posted. That's a bad default. I know that lots of people would *not* trim the quoted text; I've seen it happen elsewhere.
If I make you click a button to quote, you're choosing to quote, and it's less likely to generate a lot of noise and extra text in reply messages. There's also some hope that you clicked the quote button because you understand what it means and how to use it.
The potential downside is much worse than the inconvenience you feel at having to jab your finger at your iPad's screen an extra time once in a while.
I hope you enjoyed this quickie.
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