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Aussie Gold Member Online OzPolitic Posts: 39841 Gender:	Quoting quotes which quote and quote and quote... Nov 6^th, 2012 at 1:57pm Can there be a limit out on the number of quotes one may embed in a reply?
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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26589 Australia	Re: Quoting quotes which quote and quote and quote... Reply #1 - Nov 6^th, 2012 at 2:17pm Quote: Quote: Quote: Quote: Quote: Quote: Quote: Quote: Quote: Aussie wrote on Nov 6^th, 2012 at 1:57pm: Can there be a limit out on the number of quotes one may embed in a reply? What would you like the limit to be?
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Reply #2 - Nov 6^th, 2012 at 2:23pm

Above, yet another 'contribution' by SPOT, to the debate on OzPol .

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SPOT contribution to OzPol.....

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Reply #3 - Nov 6^th, 2012 at 2:30pm

Yadda wrote on Nov 6^th, 2012 at 2:23pm:

Above, yet another 'contribution' by SPOT, to the debate on OzPol .

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SPOT contribution to OzPol.....

Posts: 10,034
48.47 Posts per day Grin

Date Registered: Apr 8th, 2012
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10,034 posts in 7 months on OzPol.

Quantity, not quality, imo.

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Reply #4 - Nov 6^th, 2012 at 2:36pm

Aussie wrote on Nov 6^th, 2012 at 1:57pm:

Can there be a limit out on the number of quotes one may embed in a reply?

I don't often agree with Aussie, well not that I admit too anyway, but he has a point. The quotes are taking up pages and pages of wasted bandwidth. How many cyber pixels had to die as a result of all this quoting of quotes? Grin

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Can't we just copy the line we are most interested in instead of having ten other posters quotes among the often one line we are trying to quote.

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Reply #5 - Nov 6^th, 2012 at 2:41pm

Yadda wrote on Nov 6^th, 2012 at 2:23pm:

Above, yet another 'contribution' by SPOT, to the debate on OzPol .

Quote:

SPOT contribution to OzPol.....

Posts: 10,034
48.47 Posts per day Grin

Date Registered: Apr 8th, 2012
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10,034 posts in 7 months on OzPol.

Quantity, not quality, imo.

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Reply #6 - Nov 6^th, 2012 at 3:37pm

skippy. wrote on Nov 6^th, 2012 at 2:36pm:

Aussie wrote on Nov 6^th, 2012 at 1:57pm:

Can there be a limit out on the number of quotes one may embed in a reply?

I don't often agree with Aussie, well not that I admit too anyway, but he has a point. The quotes are taking up pages and pages of wasted bandwidth. How many cyber pixels had to die as a result of all this quoting of quotes? Grin

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Can't we just copy the line we are most interested in instead of having ten other posters quotes among the often one line we are trying to quote.

Unlike other forums - this place has no easy way to quote ppl and put their name in the quote as the author.

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Aussie Gold Member Online OzPolitic Posts: 39841 Gender:	Re: Quoting quotes which quote and quote and quote... Reply #7 - Nov 6^th, 2012 at 4:05pm SOB said: Quote: Unlike other forums - this place has no easy way to quote ppl and put their name in the quote as the author. Piece of cake.
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Ex Dame Pansi Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 24168	Re: Quoting quotes which quote and quote and quote... Reply #8 - Nov 6^th, 2012 at 4:15pm How did you get the last post in a quote, without all the other quotes? Quote the lot, then delete the ones you don't want? Run us through it pls.
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Reply #9 - Nov 6^th, 2012 at 4:28pm

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Nov 6^th, 2012 at 4:15pm:

How did you get the last post in a quote, without all the other quotes?

Quote the lot, then delete the ones you don't want?

Run us through it pls.

There will be people on the www laughing themselves stupid that I have been asked for advice on stuff like that, but here goes:

1. Using the mouse, left click, highlight the bit you want to quote.

2. Hit 'Ctrl' and 'c'.

3. Hit 'reply.'

4. Window appears.

5. Hit 'Ctrl' and 'v'.

6. (What you highlighted will appear in the window)

7. You then wrap that bit in [kwuote] [/kwuote]

(spelled 'quote' of course.)

Hope you can work it out from that.

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Aussie Gold Member Online OzPolitic Posts: 39841 Gender:	Re: Quoting quotes which quote and quote and quote... Reply #10 - Nov 6^th, 2012 at 4:35pm [kwuote]Hope you can work it out from that. [/kwuote] (kwuote spelled quote.)
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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3577 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: Quoting quotes which quote and quote and quote... Reply #11 - Nov 6^th, 2012 at 4:37pm Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Nov 6^th, 2012 at 3:37pm: Unlike other forums - this place has no easy way to quote ppl and put their name in the quote as the author. It does it automatically when you quote someone.
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Reply #12 - Nov 6^th, 2012 at 4:39pm

Frances wrote on Nov 6^th, 2012 at 4:37pm:

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Nov 6^th, 2012 at 3:37pm:

Unlike other forums - this place has no easy way to quote ppl and put their name in the quote as the author.

It does it automatically when you quote someone.

Yes it does.....but if others who follow do the same, it ends up looking like some of the posts here.

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Reply #13 - Nov 6^th, 2012 at 6:35pm

Aussie wrote on Nov 6^th, 2012 at 1:57pm:

Can there be a limit out on the number of quotes one may embed in a reply?

Maybe it can be set to 3 the way it is on PA. Some members are just too lazy to copy the particular comment they need. If you do quote the lot, why not delete all the unnecessary comments before you submit it? This board has run out of bandwidth in the past.

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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26589 Australia	Re: Quoting quotes which quote and quote and quote... Reply #14 - Nov 6^th, 2012 at 6:43pm WHat i meant was that on most forumes the command is: Code: [quote=somebody]crap they wrote [/quote] Here you cant do that. SOB
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