Reply Button?

[Sally, la reina]

What do you think about it? Do you use it? What do you think about when other people use it?

I tend to skip and skim over the whomever said:"... bullshit. Sometimes. Unless it's been craftily/cleverly done. But too much of it I think mucks up the thread.
Do you agree? Or am I being weird?

[Sarah]

Sally wrote: "What do you think about it? Do you use it? What do you think about when other people use it? "

I like it when it's well used. A lot of our threads tend to digress, and the quoted reply helps keep track of who is responding to what. That said, I usually edit the quoted part so that it only includes the pertinent information.

[Ken]

Sally wrote: "Or am I being weird?
"

Yes. But I like that in a person.

[Jonathan]

I use the reply button mostly when there are rapid comments being made on various aspects of a subject, and I want to avoid crosstalk or misdirected responses. In that situation, it seems helpful.

[Gatorman]

BunWat wrote: "I like it, because sometimes I'm responding to something someone said about six posts back, and it gets confusing if I don't indicate that somehow. I think it can definitely be used well or badly ..."

Agreed. Which is why I'm using it now.

[Jim]

Ken wrote: "Sally wrote: "Or am I being weird?
"

Yes. But I like that in a person."

I thought it was a rhetorical question :-)

[Jaimie]

I do the same as Bun. It keeps your response in context.

[janine]

i use the bunwat method.

[Lyzzibug ~Still Breathing~]

Agree with all.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Jonathan wrote: "I use the reply button mostly when there are rapid comments being made on various aspects of a subject, and I want to avoid crosstalk or misdirected responses. In that situation, it seems helpful."

This.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

BunWat wrote: "Me too, I copy the part I'm actually responding to, and paste it in so its clear which post, and which part of that post I'm talking about."

I do this sometimes as well, if I want to highlight a specific point that I'm responding to.

(looks around for another post to reply to so I can muck up the thread)

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Sarah Pi wrote: "A lot of our threads tend to digress, and the quoted reply helps keep track of who is responding to what. That said, I usually edit the quoted part so that it only includes the pertinent information. "

I do what Sarah Pi does. See? I just did. I edited out Sally's previous comment, which Pi was responding too, because it was just "background noise" and not necessary to my response.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Sally wrote: "What do you think about when other people use it? "

I usually don't interrupt my regular train of thought to think a new thought.

[Sally, la reina]

I edited out Sally's previous comment, which Pi was responding too, because it was just "background noise" and not necessary to my response.

*writhes*

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I should add that I love Sally's topics, especially when they border on bizarre and off the wall like this one.

[Félix]

I love Sally's whatever.

[Ken]

I think it would be helpful to bring in an outside panel of experts to further explore the intricacies of the reply tool. Perhaps Mr. Wizard could address the practical, technical aspects. Richard Rorty could delve into the philosophical questions often raised, and Noam Chomsky could outline the origins of the tool in cognitive linguistic terms.

[Félix]

Ken wrote: "I think it would be helpful to bring in an outside panel of experts to further explore the intricacies of the reply tool. Perhaps Mr. Wizard could address the practical, technical aspects. Richard ..."

What Ken said ....

[Phil]

Larry wrote: "I love Sally's whatever."

Sally, please cover your whatever. The sock monkey is salivating all over TC.

[Michael]

BunWat wrote: "I like it, because sometimes I'm responding to something someone said about six posts back, and it gets confusing if I don't indicate that somehow. I think it can definitely be used well or badly ..."

I like it, too. It makes the conversations easier to follow.

[Phil]

**waiting for anyone to be foolish enough to take Bun's bait and reply hostilely to #24**

[Michele]

I like using it when it is appropriate.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Phil wrote: "**waiting for anyone to be foolish enough to take Bun's bait and reply hostilely to #24**"

Wasn't Bun Bait one of those worst book covers?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

BunWat wrote: "I do dislike it when someone uses reply in a hostile manner though. If someone quotes me back to myself and then addresses me directly, especially in a hostile way, I tend to feel like, wait a sec..."

This most likely wouldn't bother me, as I tend to forget what I've typed within an hour of typing it.

[RandomAnthony]

I don't like that when you hit reply sometimes it only shows half the message and then I have to figure out if that's enough or if I should cut and paste it or just not hit reply at all and hope people can figure out I'm replying.

Also, I don't like that sometimes I don't hit reply and then someone replies before me and everything's out of context.

I know. I'm whiny.

[Félix]

Whiny.

[Phil]

Whinny.

[Jammies]

BunWat wrote: "I do dislike it when someone uses reply in a hostile manner though. If someone quotes me back to myself and then addresses me directly, especially in a hostile way, I tend to feel like, wait a second, you don't need to quote me to me, I know what I said, I'm the one who said it!! "

Oh yeah? Well pthhhbbbbt!

(Happy now, Phil?)

Phil wrote: "Larry wrote: "I love Sally's whatever."

Sally, please cover your whatever. The sock monkey is salivating all over TC."

This made me really truly LOL.

To answer the original question, yes, Sallers, I do use the reply button.

[Félix]

Whinny the Poop.

[Rachel]

It's awesome to have "the" in one's name. I meant to say something else, but Larry's post has shot it out of my brain.

The Rock.
Alexander the Great.
Rachel the bunny.

[Phil]

Larry the cable guy.

[Félix]

Git 'er done.