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hawken

why oh why doesn't this forum put the posters name when you make a quote? That really annoys me... you have to trawl through the thread to find out who someone quoted.

no other forum I've ever seen has this feature missing.

Toomas

I completly agree, if a thread is 5 pages long it sometimes takes like 10mins to find who someone is bashing

KDR_11k

That is, if the [Re: Hawken] bit doesn't work.

hawken

re means reply you monkey

MoP

Yes Hawken, but if you click the Quote button, it automatically puts "Re: Name of User You're Quoting" in there.
That only doesn't work if you just do a Quick Reply and manually type out the Quote tags.

Toomas

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re means reply you monkey

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test

KDR_11k

Basically the forum uses a tree structure for posts now and the RE: thing links to the post's parent. That's also the reason posts sometimes don't delete completely (a post with children will just read "post deleted").

Personally I think tree structures are rather useless for forums with such discrete topics. It makes sense on Slashdot or other news comments forums since there may be multiple aspects worth debating but there are usually only one or two threads of discussion per topic here (and because flat is the default view noone cares about whose post his gets attached to...).

doc rob

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re means reply you monkey

[/ QUOTE ]

No, it doesn't. You monkey.

"In reference to:" or "In regard to:", a legal abbreviation (from the Latin Res)
http://www.fontsite.com/Pages/WritingStyle/W&S1097.html

ElysiumGX

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i like little boys

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we know