Threading vs Quoting
- Posted by Jeremy Cowgar Jul 05, 2008
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The message Bernie posted was about Threading vs. Quoting.
Why is it necessary to have quoted replies now that the Forum supports threading. On the old Forum it was necessary because there was no way of following a discussion. Quotes just clutter up the screen and make it confusing to read.
This is a good question and I am not sure. I've been quoting people because some will not be reading in the threading view but in the Prev/Next single message view. I think we need some discussion on this and figure out what's the best way to handle it. I think the threading makes some messages easier to read but others more difficult. It's hard to find messages that are new because they do not appear in date order. I did, however, just implement the tracking of which messages you have read or not, as you may have noted on the List page. I am not yet displaying that information in the threading/message view but possibly that will make things easier.
Just thinking aloud... Thoughts?
Jeremy