Suggestion and Update Thread

[St.Davis]

What is even the point of quote-replying to a post if it's very large? What does the quote actually supply to your response if it's that big? If you're writing a response to an author and quote his entire book, how does that even help? There is literally no point (aside from giving a button to click to view the reference post), but it also bloats the page with tons of extra shit that it does not need. If someone makes a huge post with images and youtube videos and every reply is a response to it, your browser loads the same shit 15 fucking times. It's awful.

It's strictly "Null doesn't like it" and I've always used technical means to try and persuade people to use the site in a more productive way that I believe works best.

I agree with your reasoning here, honestly. If you're replying to war and peace then you're quoting inefficiently, and a subsequent reader is unlikely to be able to follow the conversation quite so well.

I feel like a better solution to your issue there would be to do something like the following; truncate quotes that are too long down into some sort of message directing the user to the original post. I'd argue this is preferable to your current "solution" of just outright preventing quoting of large posts. Example;

POST TOO LARGE, CLICK NAME TO READ

The problem with your current implementation is that many users think it's a "reply bug", and respond to these large posts through methods such as simply @ing the original poster. This makes conversations harder to follow, and often results in people spending screen real-estate complaining about the "reply bug".

You and I both know that this isnt an ideal world where all users will act optimally and make use of the highlight-quote function, so while I agree that persuading users to use the site "correctly" is preferable, I think doing it in this "softer" manner is more beneficial overall.

I'm not trying to be antagonistic, I hope you'll consider the suggestion, or at least let me know why you prefer your current implementation. I assume you're of the belief that allowing users to do this would mean they'd be less likely to quote "properly"?

If the quote in the post is too long, the post becomes unquotable as well.

Perhaps this could be fixed in somewhat the same way? If a post is made "too long" by the inclusion of long quotes, then truncate THOSE if that post is replied to.

 

[MavisBeaconTeachesSnipin]

What is even the point of quote-replying to a post if it's very large? What does the quote actually supply to your response if it's that big? If you're writing a response to an author and quote his entire book, how does that even help? There is literally no point (aside from giving a button to click to view the reference post), but it also bloats the page with tons of extra shit that it does not need. If someone makes a huge post with images and youtube videos and every reply is a response to it, your browser loads the same shit 15 fucking times. It's awful.

It's strictly "Null doesn't like it" and I've always used technical means to try and persuade people to use the site in a more productive way that I believe works best.

bc it elevates the discourse to quote a whole effortpost novel and only say "tl;dr"

 

[Brenda Holiday]

Instructions unclear, dick stuck in usb port.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

This does not work without JavaScript, for the three of you using Tor without JavaScript.

Hey, that's me! Cool. I've already accepted that very complex posts need me to temporarily enable it anyway.

 

[Baraadmirer]

ok.

Attention "bitchniggers",

In certain contexts, you will see white-out buttons like this:
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These buttons mean you can quote in that thread and board, but you cannot quote this entire post. There's 3 reasons why:

• Community Happenings thread does not allow quote-replying to stop people from doing so accidentally.
• No OP of any thread can be quote-replied to. You're posting in the thread, so it is already obvious you're replying to that post.
• Very long posts cannot be quote-replied in full.

For those instances, there is still a way to quote-reply to a specific part of the post. Simply highlight what you're replying to.

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You can then reply to this directly in the reply box as normal.

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This feature also works with the multi-quote system, so you can reply to individual parts of multiple large posts at once.

Once you use +Quote, you then click this button on your post editor.

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This does not work without JavaScript, for the three of you using Tor without JavaScript.

thank you

I'm glad this finally happened as there were some passages in long posts that I wanted to quote but would have to end up manually doing.

 

[Mr. Brown]

Thanks, captain nigger tits.

 

[Kaden Antolos]

Lol, this website is fucking disintegrating

 

[WeDon'tNeedToWhisper]

This is explained, yet you'll sill see:

@ user

I don't know why I can't quote your (long ass) post, but I wanted to respond by saying I'm gay.

Just like faggots who copy and paste images.

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

Attention "bitchniggers",

You forgot your crown, King

 

[${Sandy}]

I am a gay nigger. There is one advantage that quoting whole posts has for nonmods and that is if someone says something stupid and funny in a heated moment, you can quote capture it so that if they edit it, you have a (non verified) copy of it.

Inb4 he edits out the part where he admits to being a gay nigger.

 

[Crankenstein]

Secondary official request to rename the the Food off topic board to Flavor Town.

 

[GreenJacket]

Simply highlight what you're replying to.

Jokes on you, I was already using this feature before it was cool.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

That's kind of annoying, but alright. I don't know if you can even do the highlight quote thing on mobile either. Oh well.

Edit: Actually, it seems to work, ignore my retardation.

 

[MAPK phosphatase]

You can then reply to this directly in the reply box as normal.

I feel sorry for other forums that can't use examples as funny as this to demonstrate their forum's features.

 

[StacticShock]

This has been around for a while, hasn’t it? Either way, thanks for the primer. I am very guilty of quoting an entire post, even if I only want to respond to a tiny part of it.

yes it was since 2022, once long quotes were killed i always edited the bbcode though using the user number and message number, i do not know if that is autistic but it's how i rolled on a couple of forums due to BB being wacky as shit for them.
it's nice not editing one huge text just for a portion that i wish to reply to.

 

[Barbarella]

Works on iOS too! Thanks!

 

[Day of the Cope]

null making the fatal mistake of assuming his active userbase has a collective IQ above room temperature.

 

[jertzog]

bitchniggers

Okay, it works.

 

[cactus]

It makes me sad to know that there are people here who didn't know you could do this and they're probably too dumb for the site.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

For cock?

I'm sometimes astounded at the quality of this humble little website.

BALLS on the DICK

It makes me sad to know that there are people here who didn't know you could do this and they're probably too dumb for the site.

null just mati'd that there is at least one person (and one whore) who apparently cannot interact with KF at all because it's way too complicated for them

these people would die on reddit holyshit