When an original post has a lot of pictures, using QUOTE when responding can result in the reader having difficulty finding your input (or at minimum forces them to scroll down to find it).
Your humble moderator tends to post lots of pictures in threads, and my fellow moderator TucsonJim did, too, in a recent thread about cabinets. When members responded to Jim with information the QUOTE function copied Jim's entire first post and inserted it in the QUOTE field of the response.
So can you do something to edit it down? Why yes you can!
Below is what you're presented with if you hit QUOTE when replying to Jim's post:
If you leave all that information in there, it makes for a very long quote. When you're done typing your response, before actually posting edit down the quote so it contains just the information pertinent to your response (or at minimum so the original poster gets a notification).
Below is an example of the exact same QUOTE, but with it significantly edited down:
Now when you enter in your reply and hit POST REPLY the original poster will get a notification but the quote won't overwhelm your reply.
I hope this makes some sense.
Any questions, fire away!
Howard
Your humble moderator tends to post lots of pictures in threads, and my fellow moderator TucsonJim did, too, in a recent thread about cabinets. When members responded to Jim with information the QUOTE function copied Jim's entire first post and inserted it in the QUOTE field of the response.
So can you do something to edit it down? Why yes you can!
Below is what you're presented with if you hit QUOTE when replying to Jim's post:
If you leave all that information in there, it makes for a very long quote. When you're done typing your response, before actually posting edit down the quote so it contains just the information pertinent to your response (or at minimum so the original poster gets a notification).
Below is an example of the exact same QUOTE, but with it significantly edited down:
Now when you enter in your reply and hit POST REPLY the original poster will get a notification but the quote won't overwhelm your reply.
I hope this makes some sense.
Any questions, fire away!
Howard