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Reply #15 - Mar 10^th, 2014 at 3:03pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 2:57pm:

cods wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 2:47pm:

well this topic if you like is about people doing something that irritates others.. Roll Eyes

or maybe that escaped you....

Oh Nooooooo .... cods! ... do we have to have *biffo* in this thread too ... ?

cods wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 2:47pm:

... does that mean I think everyone on on here has bad manners..

no it doesnt.. just the FEW.[/b]

Well, thank God for that! I think we can all breathe easy for at least a few more hours. Tongue

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Reply #17 - Mar 10^th, 2014 at 3:27pm

mantra wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 8:01am:

Worse than just a one liner is a quote of a dozen or so posts followed by a one liner. By the time you scroll through these massive quotes to find the new post - there's only a few insulting words.

What a waste of cyber space. It's laziness on the part of the poster not to sift out the post they're actually responding to and only quote that.

You can reverse the order in options so the latest post appears on top.

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Reply #18 - Mar 10^th, 2014 at 3:29pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 8:21am:

Yes. I mentioned this weeks ago. It's irritating to look at, and it's just bone-bloody-laziness that they can't be bothered to isolate the latest quote.

Is there an easier way to do that than manually deleting the unnecessary text? I only attempt that when the allowed number of characters runs out, but it can be a frustrating exercise. If you mess it up by a single character, the entire thing becomes gibberish. Sad

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Reply #19 - Mar 10^th, 2014 at 3:47pm

viewpoint wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 3:24pm:

Are absolutely ridiculous and misleading thread titles included in the "one-liner jockeys" category, because sometimes one line responses are all that's required when people post dross, or start threads with stupid titles?

The problem I see with one-liners is that they begin a whole subsequent series of nothing but tit-for-tat one-liner responses.

There's nothing wrong with 'one-liners', per se, as long as these don't dog-whistle a whole pack of graffiti artists to arrive at the thread to continue this trend ad infinitum.

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Reply #20 - Mar 10^th, 2014 at 3:54pm

Winston Smith wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 3:29pm:

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 8:21am:

Yes. I mentioned this weeks ago. It's irritating to look at, and it's just bone-bloody-laziness that they can't be bothered to isolate the latest quote.

Is there an easier way to do that than manually deleting the unnecessary text? I only attempt that when the allowed number of characters runs out, but it can be a frustrating exercise. If you mess it up by a single character, the entire thing becomes gibberish. Sad

It's blissfully simply if you start the deleting process from the bottom of the quotes ~ and work upwards.

If you're having a problem with this ~ then no worries, Winston. Just Carry on Regardless.

Lady Mantra and I will register your name in our 'Special Exemptions File'.

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Reply #22 - Mar 10^th, 2014 at 3:57pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 3:54pm:

Winston Smith wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 3:29pm:

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 8:21am:

Yes. I mentioned this weeks ago. It's irritating to look at, and it's just bone-bloody-laziness that they can't be bothered to isolate the latest quote.

Is there an easier way to do that than manually deleting the unnecessary text? I only attempt that when the allowed number of characters runs out, but it can be a frustrating exercise. If you mess it up by a single character, the entire thing becomes gibberish. Sad

It's blissfully simply if you start the deleting process from the bottom of the quotes ~ and work upwards.

If you're having a problem with this ~ then no worries, Winston. Just Carry on Regardless.

Lady Mantra and I will register your name in our 'Special Exemptions File'.

There's no way I'm doing that manually to satisfy your OCD sensitivities. Technology should be intuitive and serve the user, life is not here to imitate art.

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Re: Threads being ruined by the one-liner jockeys
Reply #24 - Mar 10^th, 2014 at 4:23pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 4:04pm:

Winston Smith wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 3:57pm:

There's no way I'm doing that manually to satisfy your OCD sensitivities. Technology should be intuitive and serve the user, life is not here to imitate art.

Stand at EASE! Private Winston. It was only a suggestion.

Dismissed.

Don't you agree it should be easier to use though? This is my beef with science and technology, it never makes things easier for people. It makes it easier for people to make things hard for you, unless you pay them a fee to mitigate the artificial barriers.

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Re: Threads being ruined by the one-liner jockeys
Reply #25 - Mar 10^th, 2014 at 4:31pm

Winston Smith wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 3:29pm:

Is there an easier way to do that than manually deleting the unnecessary text? I only attempt that when the allowed number of characters runs out, but it can be a frustrating exercise. If you mess it up by a single character, the entire thing becomes gibberish. Sad

Yes - there's a very easy way to do it. When you reply to a thread and the Post Reply box comes up - scroll down the page to the post you want to reply to.

Highlight the whole or part of the post you want to quote and then click on the little box called "mark and quote" on the top left hand side of the same post. You'll see it next to the poster's nick

It will then appear in the Post Reply without all the accompanying rubbish.

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Re: Threads being ruined by the one-liner jockeys
Reply #26 - Mar 10^th, 2014 at 4:34pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 6:36am:

Thread after thread is being turned into walls for graffiti taggers with their one-liner tit-for-tats.

Subjects that could be explored are simply being trashed to the point where it's pointless submitting a thoughtful post because the Usual Suspects are far more interested in continuing to sledge each other.

There's a desperate need for a Flaming thread. When a freight carriage catches fire they shunt it into a siding and let it burn. That's what's needed here.

Increasing regulation isn't going to solve anything
- some people leave one liners
- some people use text speak
- some people post rambling nonsense
- some people post rubbish to deliberately irritate others

We have to accept that the membership of this forum is diverse and some people are going to annoy us.

Suck it up princess Wink

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Reply #27 - Mar 10^th, 2014 at 5:05pm

The_Barnacle wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 4:34pm:

Increasing regulation isn't going to solve anything
- some people leave one liners
- some people use text speak
- some people post rambling nonsense
- some people post rubbish to deliberately irritate others

Where's the ...

- some groups serialise one-liners to the point of ruining otherwise good threads. ?

The_Barnacle wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 4:34pm:

We have to accept that the membership of this forum is diverse and some people are going to annoy us.

Comprehension problem, I see. Irrelevant to my above complaint, sweet-cheeks.

Where do you mention one-liners in series ruining otherwise good threads?

Get back to us when you know what you're talking about.

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Re: Threads being ruined by the one-liner jockeys
Reply #29 - Mar 10^th, 2014 at 5:13pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 5:05pm:

The_Barnacle wrote on Mar 10^th, 2014 at 4:34pm:

We have to accept that the membership of this forum is diverse and some people are going to annoy us.

Comprehension problem, I see. Irrelevant to my above complaint, sweet-cheeks.

Where do you mention one-liners in series ruining otherwise good threads?

Get back to us when you know what you're talking about.

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