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Originally Posted by netseeker
On the other hand it is often easier to quote and reply a single quoted post because you don't have to remove all unrelated passages that were intended to other users.
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If I'm taking the time to reply to a post, a minute's editing to remove those things I'm not replying to is not just a minor but a trivial part of the process. Even if it's just a single post, I still edit it down to just the essential part of the prior post that I'm replying to, not everything they said no matter what, nor to whom. That's just good writing, not to mention good manners.
One of today's biggest problems is the "New Jersey attitude" -- the people who figuratively (or literally!) defend their rudeness with "ya gotta problem with that?" Politeness is the lubricant in the social wheels, and when you get people disregarding it, that's like sand in the gears. People might or might not solve a problem if they're civil to each other, but guaranteed they're
not going to solve it if they're standing there screaming obscenities at each other. Or, in this case, demonstrating that they think 10 seconds of their time is more important than any amount of the reader's time, even when they're trying to communicate with that reader. The attitude is "what I have to say is
so important that people should willingly jump through any number of hoops to get to it" ... when, of course, those people are all trying to find a spot to hang their own
much more important utterances. It's the Facebook syndrome again -- millions of people shouting and none listening.
I've found that it's rarely to my personal benefit to look like a rude, arrogant, uncivilized jackass. Your mileage may vary.
Note: I'm
not saying anyone in this discussion is such a jackass; they're not.