KoZed Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 I'm trying to make a post and I keep getting this bullshit error message about "you have quoted more text than you are allowed" or some dumb crap like that. What is the damn limit? Can we change it? If so, why the Hell not!! I hate to be limited in my personal creative expression for no good reasons! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanpuck33 Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Wow, I didn't even know we had a limit. I wish it was less than it is. I hate when people quote an entire essay of a post just to respond to one little thing. I mean, we've already read the post once, don't need to read the whole thing again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoZed Posted July 3, 2009 Author Share Posted July 3, 2009 Wow, I didn't even know we had a limit. I wish it was less than it is. I hate when people quote an entire essay of a post just to respond to one little thing. I mean, we've already read the post once, don't need to read the whole thing again. No, the limit is not the length of the quote; it's the amount of quotes. I wanted to quote a series of back and forth arguements out of thread and I kept getting that error message. Pissed me off to no end. I'm still mad. I'm gonna go take it out on Saku Koivu now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlbalr Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 What is the damn limit? Can we change it? If so, why the Hell not!! If I'm not mistaken, you can't quote more than 5 posts in a single message. Don't know if it can be changed or not, but I get that error message at 5 quotes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakiqc Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now Thanks I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now Thanks Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlbalr Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now Thanks I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now Thanks Thank you That second one's not really an accomplishment, a couple of HWL'ers have been doing that for some time now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeLassister Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now Thanks I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now Thanks Thank you That second one's not really an accomplishment, a couple of HWL'ers have been doing that for some time now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoZed Posted July 3, 2009 Author Share Posted July 3, 2009 I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now Thanks I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now Thanks Thank you Thank you, I guess. Now alexstream is gonna be doubly annoying. I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now Thanks I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now Thanks Thank you Thank you, I guess. Now alexstream is gonna be doubly annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanpuck33 Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Please, PLEASE turn off the multi-quote crap. It's SO annoying. You end up with 100 lines of quotes and then a 1 line response to one thing. Ugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsniper Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Please, PLEASE turn off the multi-quote crap. It's SO annoying. You end up with 100 lines of quotes and then a 1 line response to one thing. Ugh. You realize people would just copy/paste and wrap quote tags around everything then, right? It won't go away. I love multi-quoting, makes things way easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanpuck33 Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 You realize people would just copy/paste and wrap quote tags around everything then, right? It won't go away. I love multi-quoting, makes things way easier. It certainly went away the last time we turned it off. How often do you see embedded quotes anyone? All it does is make posts ridiculously long. Do we really need to read an entire thread in every post? Now every time I reply to a post that was already a reply, I have to delete quoted text so that I'm only responding to the one post. I'm responding to a single post, I don't want to respond to the response about a response to yet another response. I'm fine being able to have more quotes per post, but layered quotes are evil! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlbalr Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 You realize people would just copy/paste and wrap quote tags around everything then, right? It won't go away. I love multi-quoting, makes things way easier. Do you really need to reference 7 other messages when you make your point though? Most of the time, you respond to the post you're hitting the reply button on, not the 6 preceding it. The only time the limit irked me was PM's when I was going back and forth - you delete the first 4 and start again, hardly difficult. Already, I'm seeing 5 and 6 quotes in some threads for 1-word answers - not 1-line, 1-word. By the time I scroll through the quotes, I lose interest in the post itself. I can appreciate having a few posts referenced, but frankly I was fine with the old limit of 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsniper Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 OHHHHHH...you guys mean quotes in quotes Yeah, nevermind, I thought you meant something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanpuck33 Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 OHHHHHH...you guys mean quotes in quotes Yeah, nevermind, I thought you meant something else. Yeah, I should have called it something else. KoZed was talking about the number of quotes, so me calling the other option Matt changed "multi-quoting" wasn't the best name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLP Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 As I recall we had a problem a coupla years back that messages were getting ridiculously long displaying too much quote history and a bewildering vortex of quotes within quotes, that's why we limited the quotes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLP Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now Thanks I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now Thanks Thank you Thank you, I guess. Now alexstream is gonna be doubly annoying. I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now Thanks I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now I doubled it to 10. And you can even quote quote yourself now Thanks Thank you Thank you, I guess. Now alexstream is gonna be doubly annoying. like, do we really need this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakiqc Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 alright then, back to normal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsniper Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 like, do we really need this? No, we don't but thats not what anyone was asking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlbalr Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 No, we don't but thats not what anyone was asking for. Actually, that's exactly what Koz was asking for (I think). He wanted to reply to a post that had several quotes in it and got frustrated when the message that says you've quoted too many posts came up. That's what started this whole thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLP Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 Actually, that's exactly what Koz was asking for (I think). He wanted to reply to a post that had several quotes in it and got frustrated when the message that says you've quoted too many posts came up. That's what started this whole thing. fuggin' kozed could make a multi-post message to get all the quotes/content in? Like a work of literature that comes in volumes. KoZed Proust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanpuck33 Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 Actually, that's exactly what Koz was asking for (I think). He wanted to reply to a post that had several quotes in it and got frustrated when the message that says you've quoted too many posts came up. That's what started this whole thing. I thought he was just asking to be able to have more than 5 quotes in a thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlbalr Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 I thought he was just asking to be able to have more than 5 quotes in a thread. You can have more than 5 quotes in a thread, that's no problem - just look at this one. 5 in a single post is where the issue was (I think). Or are you saying 5 threaded quotes together? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsniper Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 Actually, that's exactly what Koz was asking for (I think). He wanted to reply to a post that had several quotes in it and got frustrated when the message that says you've quoted too many posts came up. That's what started this whole thing. No, he wanted fuggin' kozed could make a multi-post message to get all the quotes/content in? Like a work of literature that comes in volumes. KoZed Proust. to I thought he was just asking to be able to have more than 5 quotes in a thread. do You can have more than 5 quotes in a thread, that's no problem - just look at this one. 5 in a single post is where the issue was (I think). Or are you saying 5 threaded quotes together? this with more then 5 quotes. Which now we can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanpuck33 Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 You can have more than 5 quotes in a thread, that's no problem - just look at this one. 5 in a single post is where the issue was (I think). Or are you saying 5 threaded quotes together? I meant more than 5 quotes in a post, my bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoZed Posted July 4, 2009 Author Share Posted July 4, 2009 No, he wanted to do this with more then 5 quotes. Which now we can. Exactly. It was for my Thought for Carbo post. I wanted to extract the main posts from the Carbo Fired thread that showed the main position. I had Colin, Noah and others on one side, and brobin, JoeLass, myself and others on the other side. But I was limited to only 5 quotes. Shit, 5 posts is less than what it takes to Colin to make a point! (unless it's one 10 000 words long post!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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