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| PlainName:
--- Quote ---If it doesn't have easy multi-level quoting, then the context of a conversation will be lost. --- End quote --- Not if it has a properly threaded display. Quotes are a bandaid because there is no threading. A typical web forum is pants in this context, and conversations here are rubbish. By contrast, with a threaded display a quote is pretty rare and only used to isolate a particular part of the post being commented on. Here, a topic with 1000 posts is a huge beast, worthy of comment and boasting. On a threaded forum it would be nothing, yet every post would be relatable to the one it is a comment to and quoting wouldn't be needed. |
| SiliconWizard:
I hate this auto-loading thing with a passion. Holy crap. >:D |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 01, 2020, 04:26:24 pm --- --- Quote ---If it doesn't have easy multi-level quoting, then the context of a conversation will be lost. --- End quote --- Not if it has a properly threaded display. Quotes are a bandaid because there is no threading. A typical web forum is pants in this context, and conversations here are rubbish. By contrast, with a threaded display a quote is pretty rare and only used to isolate a particular part of the post being commented on. --- End quote --- I really like threaded displays, and use them extensively when reading my mail and usenet feeds. Their allow different sub-threads to be kept separate. But even within a distinct sub-thread it is necessary to include the context of that sub-thread. Hence threading and quoting have different purposes; one is not a substitue for the other. Both are beneficial |
| magic:
Threading fanboys rejoice, rumor has it that the forum is moving to Reddit :-+ https://www.reddit.com/r/EEVblog/ |
| PlainName:
Eeek! :scared: |
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