You know, I have been on some forums have an feature that says X people have replied (and by replied, I mean that people are angry over my thread or something stupid) message while I'm typing in a new post. Here, it would help on how many
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edited 28th Jun '15 6:54:21 PM by RabidTanker
Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to breakWe aren't going to get a reply-link as a standard forum feature absent a future complete overhaul. This has been on the wishlist for some time.
edited 29th Jun '15 9:19:58 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"The problems you mention there
would be largely the same if this was implemented instead, except for the point about repetition... but it's easy to skip quotes (which are clearly marked) and less easy to go back to the post being replied to to find which parts are being responded to
Whether the problems exist or not is not the issue, since we already have quote markup. The issue is that a quote button would make the problems worse by facilitating and encouraging the use of the markup - as experience shows, facilitating something means that people are more likely to do it.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanUnless the problem is specifically people using quotes, I don't think implementing a quote button will change much. As is, people regularly use arrows, @post#, @tropername, and various other methods to respond to specific posts. Or just respond to a specific post without marking it, confusing everyone. Fragmented conversations and pointless back and forths are simply things that happen on message boards
Yes, people using quotes is a problem, as I noted in the other thread. Also, there is no handy "insert" button for things other than arrows, so that analogy doesn't work so well.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynmanwith aren't being slowed down at all
The implication being that installing a quote button will not make the use of quotes more frequent. Which is at best wishful thinking, and makes one wonder why the button would be a help or useful in any way.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Ok, I accept that a quote button isn't a thing that's going to happen. (I think the reason for it is wrong but I'm not here to start that argument.) However, I'm tired of this sequence:
Can we please have a button or command that makes it easy to designate a reply as being to a specific post? And perhaps have it supply markup that links to the post in question?
(Possible markup suggestion: [[reply:42]] -> translates to a link that reads something like Re: Troper @42 )
edited 28th Jun '15 3:51:17 PM by Elle