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Board Beginners & Help
Re: How can we help improve and to build a decent forum.
by
chenille
on 27/11/2018, 19:17:03 UTC
Maybe you can add in your post to avoid over-quoting. I know it's also in the rules, but if you can add it here directly it would be clearer as it's one of the most important ways to keep a discussion clean from unnecessary quoting-spam and avoid confusions. Decent quotes are contributing to the discussion, but if you just quote the entire last comment you refer to or the entire OP it's getting very fast very messy. Especially delete large pictures in your quote, if not necessary. It's useful to use the original quote link and if someone is interested to read the full post the quote refers to, you can click it and it will switch to the originally quoted post, like this:

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This quoting-strategy is also very useful if you quote something from another thread because you are redirected directly to it if you click it.

I know, many participants won't improve it but if we can reach only few of them, this would be doing all of us a big favour. Scrolling down mega-quotes reminds me too much of ANN or Bounty threads...

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(By clicking it you'll be redirected to the quoted post)

Just found 5 of them on the first 4 pages...
In addition, this project looks like it's pushed by shills