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How hard would it be to automatically link to a post you were quoting?
So that the "Steve Geddes wrote:" part of quoting was automatically a [url/ ] coded link to the post in question.
It would help when people quote from many pages ago - especially when they only quote a snippet or where it is truncated.
How hard would it be to automatically link to a post you were quoting?
So that the "Steve Geddes wrote:" part of quoting was automatically a [url/ ] coded link to the post in question.
It would help when people quote from many pages ago - especially when they only quote a snippet or where it is truncated.
In case that didn't make sense - this is what I meant.
Having the username link function two different ways in the same post would be confusing.
Right now the username in the first line links to the profile page, but your design would use the same cue (blue username) to link back to the item quoted.
How about making the whole citation (username wrote:) be the link. Having the "wrote" be the link helps understand what the link is for.
Like this, but with the redundant 'wrote' removed.
In case that didn't make sense - this is what I meant.
Ah, I hadn't thought of that. Thanks. :)
If the powers that be could read my first few posts the way CrystalSeas just explained it - that would be great. (Or maybe it would be even less ambiguous if it was just the "wrote" part that linked to the quoted post?)
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Something like this (only without the extra line breaks)?
How hard would it be to automatically link to a post you were quoting?
So that the "Steve Geddes wrote:" part of quoting was automatically a [url/ ] coded link to the post in question.
It would help when people quote from many pages ago - especially when they only quote a snippet or where it is truncated.
Yep, that would do it too. I find it especially frustrating to come to a discussion a couple of hundred posts in and see "You said this...." followed by a quote. When it's an issue in dispute, I often find it useful to go back and read the entire quote as often there's some context to the quotee's original post the quoter is missing.
Trying to hunt through several pages of discussion for a single phrase can be too much effort.
There are probably solutions already, I admit. Doesn't matter what the site, I can never get search functions to work properly. :(