MistbornAlpaca he/him Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 I'm sure someone else has noticed that you can edit quotes. While I don't think any of the Sharders would purposefully edit a quote in a major way, I feel like maybe this shouldn't be a thing you can do. Anyone with me? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralHZRD he/him Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 I see what your saying and I've wondered the same thing. The problem is if you are only trying to quote a small part of the post, without editing you could not respond to a specific part of a post. As much as it could be used incorrectly I think that it would be more confusing without it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagerunner he/him Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 2 hours ago, MasterJack said: I'm sure someone else has noticed that you can edit quotes. While I don't think any of the Sharders would purposefully edit a quote in a major way, I feel like maybe this would be absolutely hilarious. Anyone with me? Agree with you 100%. This is a case where if it occurs, you get in touch with a moderator to resolve. It's super specialized, and that are plenty of good reasons for editing a quote. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralHZRD he/him Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 (edited) 24 minutes ago, Pagerunner said: Agree with you 100%. This is a case where if it occurs, you get in touch with a moderator to resolve. It's super specialized, and there are plenty of good reasons for editing a quote. I see what you did there. Edited February 1, 2018 by Pagerunner Nice Try. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaymyth she/her Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 (edited) I'm pretty sure it's just the way the code is built. There's no real way to fix it without major changes to the forum framework that would be subject to breakage every time there's an update to the system. Since Chaos has stated in the past that he won't make those kinds of potential-forum-catastrophe changes, we're stuck with it as it is. At any rate, quote shenanigans would be pretty obvious as the quoter can't go and change the actual post they're quoting, so anyone attempting to use this exploit to be a jerk would get caught pretty quickly. I'm not too concerned. Comatose rules. Edited February 1, 2018 by Comatose 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comatose he/him Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, Kaymyth said: I'm pretty sure it's just the way the code is built. There's no real way to fix it without major changes to the forum framework that would be subject to breakage every time there's an update to the system. Since Chaos has stated in the past that he won't make those kinds of potential-forum-catastrophe changes, we're stuck with it as it is. At any rate, quote shenanigans would be pretty obvious as the quoter can't go and change the actual post they're quoting, so anyone attempting to use this exploit to be a jerk would get caught pretty quickly. I'm not too concerned. Comatose rules. Unless... (Kaymyth makes the best crocheted Porgs!) Edited February 1, 2018 by Kaymyth 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaymyth she/her Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 3 minutes ago, Comatose said: Unless... (Kaymyth makes the best crocheted Porgs!) Right. Unless you're staff, in which case we are capable of multitudinous shenanigans. SOME of us don't abuse our powers for the sake of silly trolling. I...I don't know WHO that is, of course, but I'm sure there's someone out there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MistbornAlpaca he/him Posted February 1, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 3 hours ago, TheVillageIdiot said: I see what your saying and I've wondered the same thing. The problem is if you are only trying to quote a small part of the post, without editing you could not respond to a specific part of a post. As much as it could be used incorrectly I think that it would be more confusing without it. 2 hours ago, Pagerunner said: Agree with you 100%. This is a case where if it occurs, you get in touch with a moderator to resolve. It's super specialized, and that are plenty of good reasons for editing a quote. 2 hours ago, Kaymyth said: I'm pretty sure it's just the way the code is built. There's no real way to fix it without major changes to the forum framework that would be subject to breakage every time there's an update to the system. Since Chaos has stated in the past that he won't make those kinds of potential-forum-catastrophe changes, we're stuck with it as it is. At any rate, quote shenanigans would be pretty obvious as the quoter can't go and change the actual post they're quoting, so anyone attempting to use this exploit to be a jerk would get caught pretty quickly. I'm not too concerned. Comatose rules. That makes total sense. I just wondered about it and thought I'd ask. Also, TheVillageIdiot, at least on desktop (no clue how it works on mobile) if you highlight the part of a post you want to respond to, a little button pops up that says "quote this" and if you click it just quotes what you highlighted. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snorkel Posted February 5, 2018 Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 On 02/02/2018 at 5:47 AM, MasterJack said: I'm sure someone else has noticed that you can edit quotes.... In forums I frequent, there are many good reasons to edit things you're quoting. 1 - to just quote the relevant part and not clog up the forum with potentially huge posts... While I don't think any of the Sharders would purposefully edit a quote in a major way... 2 - To reply to different parts of a quote individually... I have never seen anybody change a quote for evil and try to get away with it, it's so easy for the quoted person to say "Oy, no!" and everybody else to verify. I feel like maybe this should be a thing you can do. 3 - And to "fixed that for you" Well, the first and second reasons are things I would definitely miss if taken away. Especially when quoting walls of text. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ammanas Posted February 5, 2018 Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 Sometimes Sharders refer to about five different people or things in their post. It is much more efficient, and less confusing, to edit their quote to refer to only a specific section of their post. It is fine the way it is. My two cents at least. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aonar he/him Posted February 5, 2018 Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 On 2/1/2018 at 0:57 PM, TheVillageIdiot said: if you are only trying to quote a small part of the post, without editing you could not respond to a specific part of a post. 28 minutes ago, Ammanas said: edit their quote to refer to only a specific section of their post. Just as an FYI, if you highlight a section of someone's post, an option should come up saying "Quote This" and if you click it, it will indeed quote only the section of the post you have highlighted. (It's what I did to get the snippets above.) I agree that quote editing should stay (changing it doesn't seem super feasible anyways ), and this doesn't account for every legitimate reason one may wish to edit a quote, but it feels like it's worth mentioning, as it seems people don't know about it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MistbornAlpaca he/him Posted February 5, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 11 hours ago, Aonar Faileas said: Just as an FYI, if you highlight a section of someone's post, an option should come up saying "Quote This" and if you click it, it will indeed quote only the section of the post you have highlighted. (It's what I did to get the snippets above.) I agree that quote editing should stay (changing it doesn't seem super feasible anyways ), and this doesn't account for every legitimate reason one may wish to edit a quote, but it feels like it's worth mentioning, as it seems people don't know about it. Yep, that's how I quote parts of a post. But I definitely see your reasoning and I now agree that it should stay. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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