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Tact is for those who aren't witty enough to be sarcastic.
No use cryin' over Spillt Milk
Posted by: prometheus25
Posted by: shiv master
Posted by: prometheus25
All I was suggesting is, if allowing people to press three buttons to post their feelings keeps them content, then why risk the possibility of them flaming.
So you're saying we should allow members to act in a questionable manner to prevent them from breaking the rules?
That's like allowing criminals to steal so that they won't commit murder.
Also, such a problem you describe is far from the most important issue we need to tackle as a community.
This is precisely the point I've been getting at all along.
Your analogy is far from the first point I was trying to make. First off, straight-posting (or commentless posting as Foman calls it) is far from a questionable manner. If people have little else to say beyond what's been said previous, there's no reason for them not to simply quote them and be done.
Above that, if we start blacklisting people for performing such an act, people will simply resort to criticizing with insults, et cetera.
An additional point I'd like to bring up would be the easier reading of the threads. If a thread contains 8 replies, 5 of them being commentless, it can be read much quicker to the same effect than one with 8 unique replies, 6 of them saying similar but different on a syntax level.
Posted by: x Foman123 x
>:-)
Arrrrrrrr, I be a name pirate!
Yeah, you better leave!
You're becoming redundant, my friend.
I've already replied, at length, to all those points.
That said, I don't understand how having 5 or 6 commentless quotes in a thread is more desirable than the same number of different, though syntactically differing posts.