When quoting other people's posts...

[Drewster]

WHS

better late than never eh Bear?

[MPwannadecentincome]

+1
and I still haven't figured out what WHS means - Google search doesn't help me.

[oracleslave]

+1
and I still haven't figured out what WHS means - Google search doesn't help me.

What He Said

[BrowneIssue]

It could be worse...

Is it really necessary to quote an entire post just to answer it with a generic non-specific answer?

When people quote an entire post just to answer it without referring to any particular part of it is there any point in quoting the whole thing rather than just saying what you were going to say anyway?

I see the use in quoting to the whole thing with the relevant bits bolded or just the relevant bits as individual quotes but reading the forum on the train and waiting for great big long pages of entire posts quoted back just with "WHS" can be quite annoying

Thanks..

[AOL]
Me too lol
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[NotAllThere]

How childish of me...

Oh right! I see what you mean.

Cyberman speaks sense...... drum roll

Marks and Spencers

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cool. I often wondered what that button did. How did you get the nesting?

[BrowneIssue]

cool. I often wondered what that button did. How did you get the nesting?

Don't tell 'im Pike!

[BrilloPad]

Don't tell 'im Pike!

That made my eye go

[MPwannadecentincome]

What He Said

ahh many thanks!

[bogeyman]

I hate this quote thing. Not a big problem on here but on technical boards where you are just looking for an answer and have to scroll through the question and often the subsequent answers over and over it drives me mad.

Agreed. What ever happened to common sense?

I also got sick of some tech forums where the some of the more anally-rentive regulars (almost all of them) would chastise you for not including the whole of the preceding response/post verbatim.

[ace00]

cool. I often wondered what that button did. How did you get the nesting?

Which button? I tried the multi-quote thing but it doesn't seem to make any difference. And what about the nesting thing. Should I do a course?