A plea to have Mark enable the quote extension on Lussumo

bugsmi0 · August 2006

Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee lol don't make me grovel ;-)

fireundubh · August 2006

An additional plea for Lussumo to activate the "Participated Discussions" filter extension...

Thomas Heath · September 2006

+1 for participated discussions @ lussumo!

bugsmi0 · September 2006

needs to grovel more to get Mark to add quotation extension, I see he added the participated discussions extensions,that's no fair my plea was first lol lets see what else we can get him to add ;-)

prince_of_oreon · September 2006

Please add the quotation extension! I'm tired of writing 'username wrote: "Bleh, bleh, bleh".' To make it look like I'm really quoting.

NickE · September 2006

You don't have to, just write @username:

ADM · September 2006

heh thought it did a similar thing to the / me thing.

garvin · September 2006

i see... but we can't add the "Mark All Read" extension? i call shenanigans. : )

bugsmi0 · September 2006

@SirNot says: --> start quote here (You don't have to, just write @username:) <-- end quote here

nah we need the quote extension looks nicer ;-)

Minisweeper · September 2006

Mark all read would make his database grow pretty quickly if everyone used it.

fireundubh · September 2006

The following is a blockquote.

Testing html.blockquote

Just use this:
<blockquote></p></div></blockquote>
Or this (if CSS is allowed):
<blockquote style="background:#EEE;color:#666;padding:6px"></p></div></blockquote>

Minisweeper · September 2006

I still dont really see what's wrong with: "heh thought it did a similar thing to the / me thing." ...this is an answer to the quote i just made. They are 'quotation marks' afterall... It really doesnt matter a great deal who said whatever it was in the first place and if you're that bothered then read the damn discussion properly.

steviehype · September 2006

If you want your quote to look nicer you could always use:

<fieldset><legend>&nbsp;Quote: <b>bugsmi0</b> &nbsp;</legend>...Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee lol don't make me grovel ;-)...</fieldset>

Which looks like:

Quote: bugsmi0 ...Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee lol don't make me grovel ;-)...

:)

c-unit · September 2006

Yeah, but that's less semantic ;).

timberford · September 2006

why not enable it? its just crazy.

prince_of_oreon · September 2006

I am actually rather surprised that a basic quoting function is not enabled by default since being able to respond point by point is critical to written dialogue. It is especially surprising when whispering is enabled by default.

NickE · September 2006

One of the only problems with a quote button on posts is that users start to include these huge quotes with nested quotes to merely say as little as one sentance. Rather than simply putting @user, then replying to their points, users often simply quote the entire posts, sub-quotes and all. If a quoting extension was installed on lussumo, I'd much rather it remove all nested quotes (or perhaps nested quotes beyond a certain level) to prevent such redundancy.

prince_of_oreon · September 2006

Could not a limit be placed on the characters allowed by using the quote button?

timberford · September 2006

surely clarity in a discussion far out weighs an aesthetic issue of nested quotes.

NickE · September 2006

Well, in a way it is sort of a clarity issue. I mean, why completely restate a user's exact words (and, in the case of nested quotes, other snippets irrelevant to your reply) when all you're doing is replying to the gist of that piece? And why does it have to be so graphical? Why not simply copy a short phrase from the comment which best represents that opinion/point, and put it in italics? A little extra time spent clarifing to what, exactly, you're replying to will not go to waste (and, especially when there are multiple points, a 'quote' button would probably end up taking more time, as you'd have to go about tweaking the tags to get multiple quotations). In addition, it can get extremely redundant from a storage perspective: even if only half of the users in a discussion quoted only, on average, half of another comment per post, you've got yourself a 25% increase in repeated text per discussion. I'm not putting down the quotations extension or anything, it's just that one of the things I've liked about Vanilla is that there aren't big quote blocks all over the place.

prince_of_oreon · September 2006

Quoting other users is the best way to incites flame wars. No discussion is complete without them.

+++me.

Madster · September 2006

"...it's just that one of the things I've liked about Vanilla is that there aren't big quote blocks all over the place."

yeah that. =) also, the lack of smileys in the core. Who the hell puts smileys in the core? real men do ASCII.

prince_of_oreon · September 2006

and because everyone who is ever going to use a forum are real men, I see no problems.

Rowan Lewis · September 2006

Could I put in a good word for a BBCode formatter?

ithcy · September 2006

jesus, no.

Rowan Lewis · September 2006

Why not? The HTML one is too unpredictable to use anyhow...

NickE · September 2006

Hey I heard that :-P But really, what makes it unpredictable?

bugsmi0 · September 2006

prince_of_oreon says:
Quoting other users is the best way to incites flame wars.
you mean like this prince_of_oreon ? lol

Rowan Lewis · September 2006

SirNot, I mean no offense by saying these things, but its unpredictable because when I last used it I had to preview my post several times trying to get the results I wanted and remove lots of the extra lines that it inserts. And besides, why not have BBCode too? You don't have to use it, but it doesn't mean others don't want to.

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