A polite, but heartfelt request.?

phoenix

Please, please, PLEASE can people refrain from copying and pasting EVERY previous response to their posts before adding a reply!

All members can read the responses, and probably don't want or need to read them twice.

This is not meant to cause offence, just a request to make threads easier to read and more concise.

Thank you.

Sorry phoenix

I will try.
Honest

Bluesky I know Grandad has evolved his own system of quoting and I hope he will not be offended if I say I find it cumbersome and interrupts the flow of the post. It really isn’t necessary to write Quote or have square or any sort of brackets. Simply highlight the sentence or paragraph you want to quote, copy it, paste it in your comment and put ^ at either end without a space
Like so

If I do not wish to copy down the entire post then I have used the following since I joined the forum

you can copy and paste from a smartphone

Hurray, that's a first, thank you Grandad
I'm on a tablet, not a phone but it worked

Try persil non bio BlueBelle.

Callistemon ???

Mine are grey too BlueBelle don’t let them wind yo up!

My apologies BlueBelle, the posters box is blue, the quotes are in a bluish grey box but if I tilt my screen back are definitely grey, so you are right I am wrong.
My own posts are in a lilacy purple colour, what about yours?

Gosh what a lot of fuss about the quote feature. You know, you really don't have to actually read all the stuff in the quote box, you can just skip to the reply underneath. It's not difficult. Who cares about the 'space' it takes up? This is virtual, not physical, we're not wasting lots of sheets of paper ?

Honestly, this feels to me like a vendetta against one particular poster

Yes but I don’t know which is the quote and which is the new comment. I’ve got no blue or grey boxes.

Aldom

*Donna FH*
I love your sense of humour.
I've slept badly, but there you are again, making me smile.

Awww, I hate not sleeping. Big hugs. X

Aaaaaargh.

????? Note to self.
That wasn't to you Phoenix

Bathsheba I started this thread, and at no point have I mentioned any GN members by name!

If members think that it is directed at, or a "vendetta" against a particular poster, then perhaps they might have a reason to think that?

Phoenix I think that there's a bit of deliberate winding up going on. The "quote abusers" know exactly what they're doing. Probably best ignored.

Like so

Yes

at no point have I mentioned any GN members by name!

I don't mind, phoenix, now I've worked this out I'm going to keep practising it.

You know what, I'm getting seriously pee'd off with it all. Been here since GN started, actually "registered" before the site even existed, but feeling it's all a bit ?

Sorry.

Haha peardrop by the way I love pear drops but haven’t had one for years Note to self buy some “peardrops when out in town“ Original posters Post is in green my own posts are in pink such a rainbow of colours

The quote box done the new way is tooooooo blooming big takes up too much space is cumbersome what else I prefer to see copy and paste Simples

Thanks Maw I didn't think it was possible to edit from a smartphone, glad we can as sometimes we only want to quote a sentence!

I can't work out who the guilty party is. Perhaps she is new to posting and doesn't realise.Who was it by the way?

I share the OP's irritation. The heart of the problem is that there is no facility to respond directly beneath a particular post as there is on FB. It would be much more logical but I fear it won't happen.

Oh kirkcubbin she knows very well who she is! It’s been pointed out by poster after poster sigh

kircubbin2000

I stated earlier that I hadn't named anyone, and I'm not going to do so now, sorry.

However, it wouldn't surprise me if you receive a pm, but it won't be from me.

To quote Dragons Den, "I'm out".

This is all getting slightly tedious!