Slimer
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Recently there appears to be a trend of excessive use of Quoting when replying to posts, this greatly increases the size of the database behind the site, slows the site down with increased times to load pages and creates more work for moderators.
There are a lot of single line replies to long posts directly after the post replied to with it quoted in its entirety, this is completely unnecessary
A few guidelines on more efficient ways of replying to posts:
* When replying to the last post in a thread use the reply button, it's obvious what you're replying to. If someone 'nips in' and replies whist you're still drafting your post you can always go back and edit your post if you think it needs it.
* When posting in a thread but not responding directly to a question take a second think, do you need to quote someone or will the content of your post make it obvious what you are referring to
* When replying to a question that has already had several replies again consider if you need to quote someone or will the content of your post make it obvious what you are referring to
* When replying to a question that has already had several replies and you feel a quote is warranted generally you do not need to quote the entire post, a snippet of the original post containing the relevant part will normally suffice
* When replying to a post that is already a reply with a quote and you want to quote the first reply delete the original quote first.
We've all had fun with the "Quotathon" and multiple quotes in the past and no-doubt will do so again but for the majority of stuff letâ's keep the quotes down and it'll help make DISCO3.CO.UK a faster and smoother running site 
Last edited by Slimer on Fri Jan 20 2006 8:42pm. Edited 1 time in total
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10forcash
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huh, spoilsport  TorqTune
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kaney
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just got blocked T.C.
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10forcash
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Slimer wrote:<snip>
what I meant to say was...... TorqTune
Vehicle maintenance, modifications, training and equipment
Driving adventures
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| Wed Jan 18 2006 10:31pm |
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10forcash
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Slimer wrote:  
 TorqTune
Vehicle maintenance, modifications, training and equipment
Driving adventures
Please use the email button to contact me as I no longer read this forum - Thanks!
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| Wed Jan 18 2006 10:33pm |
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espri
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Slimer wrote:Recently there appears to be a trend of excessive use of Quoting when replying to posts
Maybe everybody doesn't know that you can edit the default quotes which are displayed when you click the 'quote' button. Thus you can delete everything except the essentials that you really want to quote, making the quote that much smaller (as I did here as an example). Just keep the HTML tags - that's the bits in square brackets - balanced, i.e. a start tag and the corresponding closing tag with the /
Eric
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simon
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Slimer wrote:a bump!
Those things in the road that are ironed flat by the D3...
Is this the correct procedure ? Don't wanna offend
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| Fri Jan 20 2006 11:24pm |
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espri
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One other method for saving space in the database is perhaps making posts, which are of no general interest, (e.g. just saying thanks for a piece of useful information), as PMs rather than normal replies in the thread.
That also saves cluttering up threads with less interesting messages.
Eric
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SPOTTER
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can you run it by me again please?  yes I really am this boring
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Gareth
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Oi !!!!!
I'm off out to empty the fridge at the local pub, so you can "quote yourselves happy" Club 18 - 30 (I wish !!)
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AndrewS
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SPOTTER wrote:can you run it by me again please?
Keep up chap simply read the message above   In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
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