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Old 02-23-2007, 05:06 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by America first View Post
are you talking about using the quote at the bottom of the page,,if that the case why could the mod just tell him to use the quote button.

I dunno. I can't speak for the moderator's reasons, only they can. But the problem is from my own exprience, that although Preacher is using the quote feature at the bottom, he's not closing off each the quote sections he's responding to. This eats bandwidth for those responding to his posts, cause when they use the quote feature to respond, they get a blank cause the previous poster he was responded to isn't included to the new responder's quote feature.

Basically, when he responds in sections, he needs to close off the one section he answered to with a [ / quote ] (minus the spaces) then reopen the new section he'll respond to with either a (again, minus the spaces) [ quote ] or copy/paste the header quote opening of the person he's quoting in answer. That way, neat boxes to each individual section he's replying to are done so. And when a person responds to his origional response using their own quote feature, they are actually able to get his replies in quote as well without having to open a second window to respond. And then it doesn't tax the site's bandwidth in the process near as badly.

This creates bandwidth issues throughout the site when there's more then a handful of people on (remember, there's also spiders viewing the site. No less then 80 of them alone at one given time.)

But for some, it's hard to explain how to use the quote feature. I know it was hard for me myself, till some else took the time to teach me how to use one.