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Subject: Do you go top or bottom?
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Posted by: Br1gadierGeneraI
Posted by: robby118
Posted by: Mr AwesomePizza
When you quote someone, do you post above their post or below it? Ever since they started automatically putting the spaces at top I've been posting above the person I quoted. What about you Community? I like placing my reply inside the quote so users can partake in a scavenger hunt. It's really quite fun doing this. Most often they don't notice at all.

  • 08.14.2011 8:41 PM PDT
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"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.” - Albert Schweitzer

I was thinking the same thing, but I did not think it was appropriate to mention.

;-)

Posted by: Stinky Fist
Hidden meaning in the title?

  • 08.14.2011 9:03 PM PDT

I go below.

  • 08.14.2011 9:09 PM PDT

Posted by: IHaveTURRETS JR
I go below.
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  • 08.14.2011 9:50 PM PDT

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All over the place. It's pretty messy.

  • 08.14.2011 10:11 PM PDT

I type below the quote. I find it nicer to read posts like that.

  • 08.14.2011 10:20 PM PDT

*See's title, enters thread thinking this is going to be a hot and locked topic*

*Reads Thread*

*See's what OP did :S*

Bottom.

  • 08.14.2011 10:34 PM PDT

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Top. And no I don't copy Achronos. It's just how I do my quotes.

  • 08.14.2011 10:36 PM PDT

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Bottom.

  • 08.14.2011 10:39 PM PDT

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Posted by: Mr AwesomePizza
What? All I asked is if you post above the person you quote.
Posted by: Stinky Fist
Hidden meaning in the title?


I was also expecting something else.

My response is also my answer.

  • 08.14.2011 10:55 PM PDT

Make choices, and don't look back.

I usually post below, so others can see my response to what I quoted first.

  • 08.14.2011 10:57 PM PDT

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Well, it depends if I forget to quote first, which I do a lot.

  • 08.14.2011 10:59 PM PDT

Below for forums. Above for PM's.

  • 08.14.2011 11:01 PM PDT

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Posted by: T9404
Uh I'm a bit of a noob, what's an "Achronos"?

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On forum posts, I quote most short text on top and respond beneath so that everyone on the board has easy access to context.

In email, I leave the quoted text beneath my writing, because it's typical that a ring of emailers already has the context and if not, reading the quoted part entirely makes sense. The response, though, is the first thing someone wants to see in email.

For replying to long forum posts, I quote sections individually and respond. I rarely quote an entire forum post.


If anyone wants to use this post to demonstrate their quoting techniques, feel free.

  • 08.14.2011 11:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: BrenGT2
I am the exact opposite, although I won't go correcting after the post... I really only started this after the update. To me, it's just quicker to do it this way now.

Posted by: MR DROZ
Posting below the quote is the only right way to do it. I am so adamant about this that if someone quotes me and posts on top, I'll reply back after I adjust his quote to be below mine. I'll add "fixd" too.


*reads quotes from top to bottom, like you're supposed to in English*

*head assplodes*

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  • 08.14.2011 11:21 PM PDT

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Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
*looks at title*

*clicks*

*reads OP*

i c wat u did thar....
Ditto.

  • 08.14.2011 11:22 PM PDT

Great DAY

I'm amazed how topics like this get so popular.

OT: Yeah I qoute on top so people can read the post I'm replying/questioning to first and then read my reply/question.

  • 08.14.2011 11:28 PM PDT

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Posted by: Nostrebluc NC
I'm amazed how topics like this get so popular.

OT: Yeah I qoute on top so people can read the post I'm replying/questioning to first and then read my reply/question.


Because people can reply without really thinking about their answer and without any prior knowledge. Its a topic anyone can argue in as its a personal preference.

  • 08.14.2011 11:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: burritosenior
Quote first. The other way just doesn't make sense. You're going to make me read a post without context, then expect me to remember every out-of-context part of it after you give me its context? So I have to read it twice? That's dumb!

Both.

Biquotual.

  • 08.14.2011 11:39 PM PDT


Posted by: Nostrebluc NC
I'm amazed how topics like this get so popular.

OT: Yeah I qoute on top so people can read the post I'm replying/questioning to first and then read my reply/question.
I am as well, i have seen quite stupid threads become hot topics and get locked after a year. (Exaggeration)

  • 08.14.2011 11:41 PM PDT

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I quote at the top. It drives me insane when people don't quote at the top. OCD FTW.

  • 08.15.2011 12:00 AM PDT

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Bottom. That way, people know what I'm getting at right at the start.

  • 08.15.2011 12:31 AM PDT

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Below.

  • 08.15.2011 12:46 AM PDT

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Bottom, dude.

English is read from top to bottom. The forum threads are arranged in this way too. It only makes sense to give the context first, then your reply, so people know what the hell you're talking about without having to scroll/look down first and then back up to your reply.

  • 08.15.2011 3:44 AM PDT

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I personally find it annoying having to read a persons quote after someone has finished having there opinion.

  • 08.15.2011 3:46 AM PDT