Net54Baseball Posting Pet Peeve - "Quoting" Scans

[barrysloate]

Ted made a good point. Sometimes a very long post is quoted in its entirety, when only a sentence or two is relevant to what the next poster wants to say. Maybe shortening some of them would make for a good compromise. If I take the time to read somebody's long post, why should I be asked to read it again?

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Ted made a good point. Sometimes a very long post is quoted in its entirety, when only a sentence or two is relevant to what the next poster wants to say. Maybe shortening some of them would make for a good compromise. If I take the time to read somebody's long post, why should I be asked to read it again?

You lost me.

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by calvindog

You lost me.

Ok, I'll try this again! Barry, when reading this post turn your sarcasm meter on.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by calvindog

Ok, I'll try this again! Barry, when reading this post turn your sarcasm meter on.

I think Barry's confusion came from not calling it the sarcasm detector

[Leon]

Barry- You don't need to read the highlighted quotes if you don't want to. I only read them part of the time. It is better to take out the part that is actually pertinent to the response and only quote it....but that takes some time and sometimes I am lazy.

[barrysloate]

Jeff- what's to lose? Sometimes people post very long threads, often consisting of several paragraphs. I may read it and then scroll down and see someone has grabbed the entire long thread and used it as a quote. Am I expected to read it again? I will just ignore it. But if only a few relevant sentences were grabbed from that long post, I am more likely to read them. That's all.

[barrysloate]

Leon- to use your example, if you are too lazy to extract a few relevant sentences from a very long post, then why quote at all? Why not just say what you want to without repeating someone else's thread?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Leon- to use your example, if you are too lazy to extract a few relevant sentences from a very long post, then why quote at all? Why not just say what you want to without repeating someone else's thread?

Well, to state the obvious, it's easier for other board members to know who you (or me) are responding to if the post we are responding to is quoted. Otherwise, many times, folks might not know who we are answering.

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Jeff- what's to lose? Sometimes people post very long threads, often consisting of several paragraphs. I may read it and then scroll down and see someone has grabbed the entire long thread and used it as a quote. Am I expected to read it again? I will just ignore it. But if only a few relevant sentences were grabbed from that long post, I am more likely to read them. That's all.

Barry, turn your sarcasm meter on.

[barrysloate]

Sorry Jeff, no sarcasm intended. The meter is off.