Please quote just what's needed
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 10:44 am
A wee plea for concision/readability here...
When replying to someone's post, you rarely need to quote the whole thing. Sometimes, if it's short and you're the next poster, you don't need to quote it at all. (Caveats: I might go back to edit in a quote for clarity if someone else gets in while I'm typing* and/or my reply appears at the top of a new page.) If replying to multiple points from the same post, it can still be tidier and clearer to quote them briefly one by one, with the only real downside being the slight extra effort required to separate the quotes while replying.
*Which happens frequently because I sit agonising over words for ages!
Swathes of unnecessary 'quote' are as big an obstacle to fluent reading as oversized images.
That's all.
When replying to someone's post, you rarely need to quote the whole thing. Sometimes, if it's short and you're the next poster, you don't need to quote it at all. (Caveats: I might go back to edit in a quote for clarity if someone else gets in while I'm typing* and/or my reply appears at the top of a new page.) If replying to multiple points from the same post, it can still be tidier and clearer to quote them briefly one by one, with the only real downside being the slight extra effort required to separate the quotes while replying.
*Which happens frequently because I sit agonising over words for ages!
Swathes of unnecessary 'quote' are as big an obstacle to fluent reading as oversized images.
That's all.