| RainOfSteel |
I have some wants/suggestions about replying to forum posts using the current software/system.
I did search for prior topics on this subject, but the only search I could think of at the moment was "replying to posts," which produced a swarm of irrelevant results.
1 -- When I click on the reply link, and the composition window appears, apparently if the post was beyond a certain length, the current system cuts off everything after that length limit in the quoted text block that is automatically provided. The length limit appears to be short, too. If I plan on replying to various parts of the post after that, the absence of most of the post makes it much more difficult to reply. I have to go back to the source post and manually copy and paste over to my composition window. I want the system to quote the entire original post and I can trim out everything to which I'm not directly replying.
2 -- If the length limit is there to stop unfortunate posters from quoting entire lengthy posts with replies of a few words, then I believe that there should be two reply links: Short Reply, which would have the length limit on the quoted material from the post, and Long Reply, which would quote the entire original post. (The tooltips when hovering over the links would be, "Your reply will be short," and, "Your reply will be long and you will trim out text you are not addressing.")
3 -- Currently, the link to start a reply to a post is found at the top of that post. I want the link to start a reply to a post be at the bottom of the post. When I am done reading a post, I am at the bottom of that post and that is where I am ready to click on reply. Scrolling back up to the start of the post to start a reply is counter-productive.
Yes, I realize none of this may be done. I think I get to ask, though.