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RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system
May 7, 2012 at 7:26 pm
This was brought upon by a couple of people replacing the quote of an entire post with "blah, blah, blah" or "yada, yada, yada". Whilst this kind of change is obvious to people, it's still rude and shouldn't be done.
Note that if you want a way to reduce the size of a large quote, you can remove large chunks of it and replace it with "..." as long as you don't change the context of the remainder of the quote.
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RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system
May 7, 2012 at 7:27 pm
(May 7, 2012 at 7:10 pm)Ryft Wrote: What if your obsession for proper spelling and grammar is the reason for changing someone's quoted material? ...
Chill.
For constructive discussion, the rules more often are relaxed to allow for such.
When you stop and think about it, the rules really are here to deal with the unfortunate cases of people being... less than kind. We're not interested in killing the next debate or rational inspection of some idea. We're interested in keeping the weeds out of the garden (and into my pipe) so the flowers can bloom.
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RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system
May 7, 2012 at 8:00 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2012 at 8:00 pm by Napoléon.)
In my experience you only get collared for this when the other person moans about it.
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RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system
May 7, 2012 at 8:07 pm
(May 7, 2012 at 8:00 pm)Napoleon Wrote: In my experience you only get collared for this when the other person moans about it.
...or someone else reports it, or a mod notices it.
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RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system
May 7, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Well, I am going to continue doing it because: (1) most people know that I am a Grammar Nazi and that I have been doing it for over three years; (2) the corrections never change what their quote said, much less its meaning; (3) there is always a link to their original material so people can see that it says the exact same thing; (4) in three years nobody (to my knowledge) has ever complained about the grammatical corrections; and (5) I generally have a reputation for being a fair opponent. I have never, ever so drastically changed someone's quote that it changed its meaning, weakened their statement or argument, or turned it into something they never said. (If someone did that to me it would piss me off, so I don't do it to others.) And, again, where I switch words around or add words, I bracket the change to indicate that the wording is mine, not theirs.
Until a moderator tells me to stop, that is—at which point I will cease quoting people altogether, because OCD is not a lark.
(May 7, 2012 at 7:13 pm)Shell B Wrote: ... it's unnecessary to edit people's posts for spelling and grammar.
Except for some it is an obsessive compulsion (i.e., necessary). It is like turning the coffee cup slightly because the handle is pointing in the wrong direction; they would sooner get rid of the cup than be told they had to endure it facing the wrong direction.
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RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system
May 7, 2012 at 9:47 pm
I have ocd without compulsions. Yes, that is a real thing. So, I have no problem sympathizing whatsoever. It was never my opinion that you should stop, anyway. You're honest about it and not a dick, so have at it.
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RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system
May 8, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Wouldn't that just be OD? Yes you are OD.
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RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system
May 8, 2012 at 5:09 pm
 Oddly, no. It is called pure-ocd. I don't know why. Technically, it is not without compulsions, but the compulsions are purely mental and very subtle. You wouldn't even know I had it.
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RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system
May 9, 2012 at 9:03 am
(May 7, 2012 at 9:32 pm)Ryft Wrote: It is like turning the coffee cup slightly because the handle is pointing in the wrong direction. Oh fuck, I do that.
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RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system
May 9, 2012 at 10:14 am
Don't worry, Tibs. It makes sense to turn your cup if the handle is pointed in the wrong direction. How else are you going to grab it comfortably with your dominant hand?
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