Feedback: invisible quotes
- James195101
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Re: Feedback: invisible quotes
"The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master."
I believe spiritual freedom (a.k.a. self-discipline) manifests as bravery, confidence, grace, honesty, love, and inner peace.
- James195101
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Re: Feedback: invisible quotes
Yes, the HIDDEN QUOTE was a great improvement. Unfortunately about one in five got mixed up i.e. some of the text was a quote, but it was not shown as a quote. QUOTE NOT SHOWN may be a better text than HIDDEN QUOTE. Ideally quotes would always be removed (except of course when you 'jump to post').Scott wrote:The problem with parsing quotes, or any bbcode, in the search results is that it may be cutoff since only part of the message is displayed. I have modified the search to remove quotes from search results, except when the entire post with parsed quotes is small enough to be displayed with parsed quotes. Please let me know if this work well or if there is any errors. In any case, thank you for this feedback and the suggestion. I think the search results are a lot more user-friendly now.
-- Updated July 5th, 2012, 8:47 am to add the following --
I notice there is ambiguity using the word quote. In my first post I meant 'quote marks'. Although I do like the 'not shown or hidden' quotes, it would also be OK if the ' " Scott wrote: ... ' were included, so long as it was clear what was a quote. This would probably be better than having the mix of 'hidden quote' and some errors.
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"The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master."
I believe spiritual freedom (a.k.a. self-discipline) manifests as bravery, confidence, grace, honesty, love, and inner peace.
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"The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master."
I believe spiritual freedom (a.k.a. self-discipline) manifests as bravery, confidence, grace, honesty, love, and inner peace.
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"The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master."
I believe spiritual freedom (a.k.a. self-discipline) manifests as bravery, confidence, grace, honesty, love, and inner peace.
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Re: Feedback: invisible quotes
Code: Select all
[quote="Joe"][quote="Mary"]Hi, I'm Mary. Who are you?[/quote]
I'm Joe and I like Joey things.[/quote]
Your text.
Your text.Joe wrote: I'm Joe and I like Joey things.
This change will be especially useful for when people use the quote button, which is from where most deeply nested quotes needlessly come. If for any reason you find it useful to include a past quote in a series, you can do so manually with the following type of code:
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[quote="Mary"]Hi, I'm Mary. Who are you?[/quote]
[quote="Joe"]I'm Joe and I like Joey things.[/quote]
Your text.
Mary wrote:Hi, I'm Mary. Who are you?
Your text.Joe wrote:I'm Joe and I like Joey things.
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I think this is a great improvement because the nested quotes were getting out of hand both aesthetically and to parse on the back-end. This seems to me to be the most user-friendly approach to getting rid of nested quotes.
-- Updated 08 Jul 2012 07:24 pm to add the following --
This still means old nested quotes won't be hidden properly on search results posts. I hope to fix that some time, either by editing the structure of the quotes in those posts somehow or by improving the code I've written to hide the quotes on the search page to deal with nested quotes, probably the former.
James195101, I have changed it to (quote not shown) as suggested.
"The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master."
I believe spiritual freedom (a.k.a. self-discipline) manifests as bravery, confidence, grace, honesty, love, and inner peace.
Re: Feedback: invisible quotes
For example, in my list of posts (accessed via my profile) there is one dated January 13th, 2014, 8:09 am in which the quote has been removed and my post seems to start with "You are being disingenuous". That was not my statement, it was a phrase that I was responding to. It was part of the nested quote which displays correctly in the full forum post.
This problem seems to occur with all the posts where I have used nested quotes, which is quite often. It would make more sense if the full nest was removed in the search list, and the words shown were all mine not a quote.
Incidentally, this isn't important, but there is also a discrepancy between the number of posts shown in my profile (6) and the number in the search (7). This doesn't appear to be due to the fact that I followed up one of my own posts, as that would make an 8th.
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Re: Feedback: invisible quotes
-- Updated 16 Jan 2014 12:50 pm to add the following --
Okay, I think I fixed this. Quotes with a nest quote should be fully removed from search results now.
"The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master."
I believe spiritual freedom (a.k.a. self-discipline) manifests as bravery, confidence, grace, honesty, love, and inner peace.
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