"deleting pointless full quote of last post" Options

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I'm really annoyed by this. One moderator loves to pointlessly delete quotes from user posts. Please stop. It makes no sense. It doesn't help anybody and actually hurts.
Quoting previous posts is a clear reference to which post I am replying to. And when somebody doesn't read whole topic but only skims through it, it allows to go only forward w/out backsearches "what did he mean"

[botface]

I can see both sides in this. Obviously unnecessarily quoting of the preceding post in full is often unnecessary and wastes space. On the other hand I recently had a misunderstanding involving both the moderators contributing to this thread. I queried a response to a post thinking it referred to one post and it turned out that it referred to a completely different one about which we had no disagreement at all. So that was a waste of 3 people's time and effort that could have been avoided by quoting appropriately. And I guess that's the answer, as has been pointed out. Don't just quote the preceding post in full or assume that your post will end up where you expect it to. Extract the parts you are actually responding to. Of course that takes more effort and you might run into the limit on the number of quotes allowed. Maybe it's just a minor problem with forums that's unavoidable

This post has been edited by botface: Oct 29 2011, 13:05