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geraint
i actually asked you.... but you got your boy wonder to answer....
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And yet you quoted ColJack.
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geraint
where...... cannot see that name
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geraint
ahhhh now that is an insult...
please not three bases....
please not three bases....
No, you didn't.
You wrote this:
immediately following this post by Monkeh, so there is no possible way that it can have been anything other than directed at him.
Uhm, you have a gigantic logic failure there. To begin with, why would that be directed at me? On top of that, "if you happen to have missed the warning tape" is a direct quote of ColJack a few posts higher. Just because it came after my post, doesn't mean it was in response to it or directed at me.
IHNI - I didn't write it.
You should ask that question of geraint, since he did direct it at you.
With no quote of an earlier post by another person there is no workable way to interpret any post as anything other than a response to the one immediately before it. Expecting people to divine that without some reference to something else a post relates to anything other than the one immediately before it is crazy - there's no way that people could keep track of what's going on.
You really would have to be spectacularly stupid to have been a member of a forum for years, and to have made hundreds of posts, and not grasped that.
There was no use of [quote] [/quote] brackets, or any other recognised method of indicating a quote, so it wasn't one, or at least it wasn't one that worked.
Someone really would have to be spectacularly stupid to have been a member of a forum for years, and to have made hundreds of posts, and not worked out how to create quotes which were recognisable as such.
With no quote of an earlier post by another person there is no workable way to interpret any post as anything other than a response to the one immediately before it. Expecting people to divine that without some reference to something else a post relates to anything other than the one immediately before it is crazy - there's no way that people could keep track of what's going on.
Any poster who had been a member for years and had made hundreds of posts, and who wanted to reply to something other than the immediately preceding one really would have to be spectacularly stupid not to have grasped that.
Except when there is a quote, not including tags, which is blindingly obvious to anyone who actually takes in the posts in a thread.
I manage. It may be something to do with being an active member, moderator, and admin of multiple forums for the last six or so years.
And it's still easily recognised as one by structure and the fact that the first few words came directly from a post just up the page.
You don't have to repeat yourself.
Quotes are not blindingly obvious unless bracketed by [quote] [/quote]. bbCode provides Quote tags for a very important reason, they are staggeringly easy to use, and to not use them is unacceptable.
If you were in a room full of people, and you faced one of them, asked a question not of them but of someone else, and didn't so much as use that other person's name to indicate you were asking them, would you think that sensible, a workable way of communicating?
People shouldn't have to guess to whom a question or comment is directed, it should be made obvious by the writer. Anything else is unacceptable.
Quotes are not blindingly obvious unless bracketed by [quote] [/quote]. bbCode provides Quote tags for a very important reason, they are staggeringly easy to use, and to not use them is unacceptable.
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