How to use the Quote option in any thread...another Fred Rant

[fredvon4]

This post is NOT intended to ding any particular member

And I may be all wet and it really does not matter... only Jason can tell us about the web site stats and costs

I ran a few BBS and meager web sites a decade or two ago and bandwidth and/or storage space cost $$$$$$

When I see any thread with a fairly long series of Photos I enjoy it

BUT later--- a fellow CEFer makes a comment with ALL 2 to 20 photos included---- and I think to myself "what a waste of space and bandwidth"....after I wait for 10 minutes for the page to load

I Never....personally...use the "quote" option

If I feel the need to comment, referring to something in the original post,
I use my mouse to highlight the text or single photo, and mention it is a quote in my text....most of the time inserting my own "...text..." marks for what the other member wrote

I would like Jaso to comment... There are quite a few threads here on CEF where the same 10 to 20 photos appear at least 7 times in the same thread.... grrrrr

To me this is a massive waste of storage space....

However---- the real reason for my rant

I am on a severely limited bandwidth connection.... a thread with 35 iterations of the same photo TAKES 3 to 9 minutes to load

I love Kim's On the Ramp now essays... or any of the Ian and Bob engine photo listings
but tend to NOT CLICK ----because it makes me go get a new cup of coffee and do yard work waiting for the thread to load

Jest sayin

[Admin]

Not sure if Jason can help but maybe I can LOL. I normally try to remove pictures that were quotes, especially if there is more than one photo and the reply doesn't explicitly include discussion about the photo. It not only makes threads take more time to load, it stretches them way out. As for costs, it doesn't affect me any. Forumotion (the forum hosting service) is still free. They make their money off the advertisements that the guests see (when you are not logged in). I currently pay to have ads removed for members, and the gallery starting storage space.

[fredvon4]

Jason....Jacob.. Jakob.... Jaso....grin... My bad....maybe too much fun juice this AM

Love this site brother...Jacob!

[Kim]

I like to use the quote option to address a specific post, but try to delete the photos and leave the subject sentence...'course some times I forget....

[Oldenginerod]

I like to use the quote option to address a specific post, but try to delete the photos and leave the subject sentence...'course some times I forget....

Yeah, same here.  It's handy to use "Quote" but I generally remove everything that doesn't relate to my comment.  If a quote doesn't show up in a coloured quote box (ie, cut & pasted with quotation marks added), it can sometimes be mistakenly taken as the comments of the quoter, causing confusion.  Doesn't take much effort to delete what's irrelevant.

[rsv1cox]

I like to use the quote option to address a specific post, but try to delete the photos and leave the subject sentence...'course some times I forget....

Yeah, same here.  It's handy to use "Quote" but I generally remove everything that doesn't relate to my comment.  If a quote doesn't show up in a coloured quote box (ie, cut & pasted with quotation marks added), it can sometimes be mistakenly taken as the comments of the quoter, causing confusion.  Doesn't take much effort to delete what's irrelevant.

Same here, if answering a picture heavy post I remove the pictures as redundant.

Sympathies Fred.  I dealt with dial-up speeds in Florida for several years.  No fun.

I'm as guilty of picture heavy posts as anybody because "A picture is worth a thousand words"  but in this case -----

look Ma, no pictures.  

Bob

[fredvon4]

Just to be clear

Most everyone here who posts original images does so much better than my feeble efforts. 99% of the time the wait to load is well worth it

I love Kim's on the ramp now thread and very willing to wait for that bugger to load


There are some other photo heavy threads I enjoy the On The Ramp Now example is just that, an Thread I think most reading this can relate to

[crankbndr]

Why use "quote" at all to reply, not needed.

[rsv1cox]

Why use "quote" at all to reply, not needed.

Sorry, just had to do it.  

Sometimes it's just easier to extract out a portion of a post that's relative to your response rather than just duplicating the originators entire post.

And yes.  Five stars for Kim's "On the ramp" thread.  I never miss an issue.

Bob

[crankbndr]

Why use "quote" at all to reply, not needed.

Sorry, just had to do it.  

Sometimes it's just easier to extract out a portion of a post that's relative to your response rather than just duplicating the originators post.

And yes.  Five stars for Kim's "On the ramp" thread.  I never miss an issue.

Bob

Green for you HaHa!!

[rsv1cox]

Thanks. I had to edit out some of my bad English though.

Bob

Look - No quote!!!

[crankbndr]

I've noticed if you edit something in your post it won't change in a quote.

[fredvon4]

I've noticed if you edit something in your post it won't change in a quote.

Above using the quote button

Vs..my cut n paste method

"I've noticed if you edit something in your post it won't change in a quote."

quote of crankbndr and adding my own "----"s

However this is just my way and it really does not matter much with text....

It also sort of annoys me that on some forums a quote button is used and the added text from the new reply is INSIDE the quoted text box.. hard for me sometimes to figure out the trail of the topic and notes, answers, comments

I guess I am asking some "Quote button guys" to realize NOT all of us have 500 GBps ISPs and seeing the same 8 photos of an engine cleaning or modification  3 or 4 times in the same thread eats a lot of bandwidth

[fredvon4]

Last several months there a many very good threads I can NOT follow

Some few of us are an very limited bandwidth internet connections

When a thread had 5 or more photos it takes a LONG time to load

Each time somene uses the Quote button and includes in their response a COPY all all the previous photos ----it just makes it impossible to follow the thread

There are several threads ongoing that have the exact same set of photos re quoted over and over again so that within the thread there are literally 10 or more copies of the exact same photos...

Grrrrrrrr!


Please us the quote button with some conscious thoughts about other members who are bandwidth challenges... PLEASE!

[rsv1cox]

How about Hughes Gen 5 Fred?  

PO had it here, big dish.  He also had Frontier High speed internet which was and still is medium speed at best.  I pulled the Hughes dish out of the ground last summer.

Bob

PS - Sorry Fred, edited in a couple of pics.

[Oldenginerod]

Quotes are completely editable. (Is that a word?)  I find using quotes better than just copy paste because it saves the confusion of one thinking that the quoted words are those of the "quotee". (Just made up another one!!)  Having it in a highlighted box removes confusion, unless the "quotee" forgets to insert the cursor after the quote.  It is possible to mistakenly insert your own text into the quote field.  I use quotes quite a bit and usually remove any photos unless I specifically want to bring something to note.  I also remove any text that is not relevant to my comment.  It's easy to edit.  So long as you leave the
quote="fredvon4" in [] at the start and after editing the content, the /quote in [] at the end.  (Sorry, couldn't put the [brackets] around the text because then it turned it into a highlighted quote ) You can insert or delete whatever you want in the middle.  Just be careful not to misquote anyone (which can be done).

Rod.

[roddie]

This is a fine thread Phred.. (try saying "fine thread Phred" 3-times ) We should all be conscious of what we "quote" when we quote.. and try to keep our reply "pertinent" to what we're interested in. "Selecting all" via the quote-button is convenient.. but one should then take the time to edit the quote.

I've noticed reply's with multiple quotes inserted.. and don't know how to do that.

[rsv1cox]

Quotes are completely editable. (Is that a word?)  

Rod.

I have eaten my words many times here Rod.

[crankbndr]

Gota love the quotes of quotes of quotes all with photos replacated, definitely over used feature

[Marleysky]

[crankbndr]

That made me have my laugh out loud.

[balogh]

When I use "quote", I most often delete the text and pics from the quote not directly relevant to the section I want to quote, and just leave the sentence I want to react to, in the quote...thus eliminating the unnecessary repetition of texts and photos etc...exactly because of my concerns with abused storage capacity on the server....would you expect a 59-er so internet-conscious? Our age-group is often branded by the generation of my son "old-schooler"...whatever it means...

[crankbndr]

Does dial up service still go honk, ding ding, bonk, yada yada, tute, clank, shessss, bing bling, scronk!!!
Haven't heard that in a while.

[944_Jim]

And along with "quotable quoted quotes," it burns me when someone sends out an MMS text message soliciting a response to a group of recipients...and each person replies back to all recipients.

Like I really need to hear 20 times "I'll send it later" sent to the originator!

[Admin]

I've been looking for solutions that you could personally do (such as a setting) that would let you disable the [img] BBCode image tags, leaving just the URL to the image (that you could click on or copy and paste into another window). I've seen it done on other forums but it doesn't appear to be an option for this software.

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