Editing posts (evil admins n stuff)

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Editing posts (evil admins n stuff)
OP - May 30, 2009, 09:08 PM

Hey people might start noticing some apparently harmless posts being "Edited by osmanthus". I don't want to be an asshole about it but what I'm doing sometimes is removing superfluous quotes to keep threads cleaner and easier to scroll through.

I know it's just human nature to hit the quote button when you see a post you want to reply to, and in a fast moving thread you need to quote so your reply doesn't get disconnected from the post you're replying to. However if it's not a fast moving thread there is no usually need to quote the post directly above you, and not doing so can vastly reduce the amount of scrolling that is needed to read the thread. Makes it easier for everyone

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Re: Editing posts (evil admins n stuff)
Reply #1 - May 30, 2009, 09:59 PM

Quote from: osmanthus on May 30, 2009, 09:08 PM
I don't want to be an asshole about it

You're an admin/moderator, you are the authority, so you're automatically an asshole... ^_^
I think you're doing it good though... xD I hate to search for the actual reply...

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Reply #2 - May 30, 2009, 10:15 PM

Quote from: Farid92 on May 30, 2009, 09:59 PM
You're an admin/moderator, you are the authority, so you're automatically an asshole... ^_^

lol... I like your style, kiddo
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Reply #3 - May 30, 2009, 10:20 PM

I figured I should post to forestall umpteen questions about "Why was my post edited?"

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Reply #4 - May 30, 2009, 10:29 PM

Quote from: osmanthus on May 30, 2009, 10:20 PM
I figured I should post to forestall umpteen questions about "Why was my post edited?"

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Reply #5 - May 30, 2009, 10:32 PM

That's the reason.

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Reply #6 - May 30, 2009, 11:37 PM

Oh yeah and I turned off nested quotes. From now on the auto-quote thingy will only quote the one post. If you want to insert quotes from extra posts you can use the list of posts below the reply form. They all have a quote link next to them. Note that this will not work on quick reply, only on the standard, full reply page.

Reason is that although you could only see a maximum of three nested quotes displayed, when constantly quoting quotes on long threads the whole damned lot of them were still linked up in the database. You can see this if you quote or edit one such post. I think this is one of the main reaons why people have had some degree of difficulty when splitting up quotes to make their replies to points clearer: the amount of extra rubbish makes it hard to keep track of things.

I have asked for someone at SMF to consider coding a mod which only links the displayed nested quotes but nobody has been up for it yet. I may have a crack at it myself. Can't be that horrible to code.

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Reply #7 - May 31, 2009, 12:26 AM

WAIT, NO WAI !!! YOU KAN NAOW KONTROLL EVERYTHINK INSIDE MY POSTINGS

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COMMUNIST!
TYRANIZT!
MUSLIM!

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Reply #8 - May 31, 2009, 12:34 AM

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Reply #9 - May 31, 2009, 12:51 AM

@ExHindu
Just "Muslim" sums up basically everything... xD

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Reply #10 - June 01, 2009, 01:51 PM

Quote from: osmanthus on May 30, 2009, 11:37 PM
Oh yeah and I turned off nested quotes.

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Reply #11 - June 01, 2009, 03:44 PM

Quote from: Balthier on June 01, 2009, 01:51 PM
Wisest decision you've made since leaving Islam. Now how about using bigger fonts, so I don't have to increase the zoom level?

Glasses. Get glasses. Or lens.

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Reply #12 - June 01, 2009, 08:23 PM

What he said. No way do I want to look at bigger fonts. What I could do though at some point is make another copy of the default theme with larger text. That wouldn't be all that difficult as it's only some minor changes to the css.

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