Just had a thought:
Any way to change whom/what my reply is a reply to?
What i mean is i can reply to the original post or to someone else's reply, and if everyone's careful, we can have a few sub-discussions going on, all under the original post. If, however, and this has happened to many of us, we simply reply to the last (or to just any) particular response, when we really meant it to be to the original post, can we edit the our new response so it is under a different response?
My, that came out more complicated-sounding than i thought it would!
It's easier to see what i'm getting at when a discussion is viewed hierarchically (not linearly) and you see responses "coming off" other responses.
You can't do it, but I can. 🙂
"you must feel the Force around you." Yoda
> Just had a thought:
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> Any way to change whom/what my reply is a reply to?
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This is why I try to quote the person I'm responding to if it's not in the normal hierarchy.
On other (non-surveying) forums that I visit, it is a must since there is no progression tree and I might be responding to a post that is 2 days old.
Reply to Nobody in Particular
I've noticed it's quite popular to quote the entire or large parts of a post that is being replied to. I don't understand why that's necessary. I can move the thread up and down and read the other post myself. If it's so the replier can read the post while he/she is replying, it can be opened in a separate window or separate tab by right-clicking the reply button and choosing one of those options. Not that big of a deal, I just wonder if people know about that feature.
Reply to Nobody in Particular
> I've noticed it's quite popular to quote the entire or large parts of a post that is being replied to. I don't understand why that's necessary. I can move the thread up and down and read the other post myself. If it's so the replier can read the post while he/she is replying, it can be opened in a separate window or separate tab by right-clicking the reply button and choosing one of those options. Not that big of a deal, I just wonder if people know about that feature.
I didn't know about it, heh, heh 🙂
It's hard to right click with a touch screen. I tried using another finger, but that doesn't seem to work.
Don
> This is why I try to quote the person I'm responding to ...
Yes, that's a good idea, too. But just quote the relevant bits.
(I sometimes see, on other forums, pages and pages of quoted previous posts and responses, then, way down at the very bottom ... a three-word contribution! Gee thanks for nothing.)
Reply to Everybody, and Steve in Particular
> ... so the replier can read the post while he/she is replying, it can be opened in a separate window or ...
A simpler alternative is to click the "quote message" text, to see the whole post while typing a reply, then either remove the whole quoted post or edit out all but a snippet before Submit.
Reply to Everybody, and Steve in Particular
Good tip, Martin. Thanks,
Don
Possible to edit the response hierarchy?> Martin
I don't understand your question because it appears that is how I am viewing it now. When I read a thread it's broken into individual responses each with a reply option, or if I want to reply in the original post then I reply to the first post only...
It seems to me that it's working the way you suggest...
Possible to edit the response hierarchy?> Martin
> It seems to me that it's working the way you suggest...
Yes it is. And yet it's easy for someone to click, in haste (not that anyone around here is hasty), the wrong Reply button. I just threw it out there because i had done just that: meant to give a general reply (to a thread) but actually replied to a specific response. No big deal.
When we discuss minor detail improvements, it's a good sign that the big picture is working well 🙂
>But just quote the relevant bits.
I agree completely. That's what I was trying to get across in my first post, but I must not have done a very good job at it.:-$ One can also break the quoted in to several small snippets if more than one thought is going to be addressed
> (I sometimes see, on other forums, pages and pages of quoted previous posts and responses, then, way down at the very bottom ... a three-word contribution! Gee thanks for nothing.)
Here's my contribution.....:-D;-)
