Who? what? umm... err... gulp ...
*wipes cold sweat from forehead*
I am confused!
Don't quote me on that
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Sep 14, 2008
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#3
Ray_Brooks wrote:
Who? what? umm... err... gulp ... *wipes cold sweat from forehead* I am confused!
Naturally. Unless you quote something, who will know what you are confused about!
Sep 14, 2008
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#4
Maybe we don't want to know what the poor chap is confused about. I have enough to be confused about without having more confusion added to my already confused and confusing existence. Confused? You will be.
Huh?! :))
Sep 14, 2008
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#6
Ray_Brooks wrote: Who? what? umm... err... gulp ... *wipes cold sweat from forehead* I am confused!
Naturally. Unless you quote something, who will know what you are confused about!
artfizz wrote:
Ray_Brooks wrote: Who? what? umm... err... gulp ... *wipes cold sweat from forehead* I am confused! Naturally. Unless you quote something, who will know what you are confused about!
But when should he post and where is the best place?
Sep 14, 2008
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#8
and why reply to it twice? Is that just an attempt to add to the confusion?
Sep 14, 2008
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#9
Sharukin wrote:
and why reply to it twice? Is that just an attempt to add to the confusion?
An attempt at clarification: post #3 is in style #1; post #6 is in style #2.
Sep 14, 2008
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#10
Ah, I see it all now. So, how do you get the two styles to happen or is it just chance?
Sep 14, 2008
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#11
Sharukin wrote: Ah, I see it all now. So, how do you get the two styles to happen or is it just chance?
It's chance... except that... when I start replying, it shows it to me in style #2. But when I actually reply, it usually (always?) changes it back to style #1 - so I usually manually edit it back to style #2 .. THIS STYLE.
Sep 14, 2008
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#13
lithium11 wrote:
I can't feel my legs
Loosen your belt. Now put your hands down your trousers. Those thin, stick-like objects you can feel are your legs.
lithium11 wrote:
I can't feel my legs
lithium tends to cause that
Sharukin wrote:
lithium11 wrote:
I can't feel my legs Loosen your belt. Now put your hands down your trousers. Those thin, stick-like objects you can feel are your legs.
That's a bit close to the bone, don't you think? 
Wow, this is like a mindtrap or something... but you make a point about the quoting. It gets confusing...
Sep 14, 2008
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#17
Evil_Homer wrote:
Sharukin wrote:
lithium11 wrote: I can't feel my legs
Loosen your belt. Now put your hands down your trousers. Those thin, stick-like objects you can feel are your legs.
That's a bit close to the bone, don't you think?
That's how it should look.
It's what u see if you go "skinny dipping"
Sep 17, 2008
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#19
Here's another example. Who said what?
hmcgrier wrote: Rael wrote: No one is disputing that by some weird twist of fate chess on the internet fell under the same "rules" as chess by snail mail. These rules were adopted not because they're cool, but because they can't be avoided. If it is impossible to prevent cheating, then cheating must be permitted, kind of thing. This is a good point. I've read the reasons why the users consult the helps during the game. They treat it as a chess variant (their choice) while I treat it as OTB (my choice) so I'm still a non-user. A point I tried to make was that you cannot pretend that online chess without all the CC resources is OTB chess. It is yet a third variant -- no help, but no time pressure or continuity. I don't have a problem with you deciding that it is what you want to play. But you should not fool yourself into thinking that you are playing OTB chess. Live chess either here or on another server is a pretty good approximation of OTB because you have to play contiuously and deal with time constraints.
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When you quote an earlier posting, it seems to appear in one of two ways.
1)
Poster-1 wrote:
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over A Lazy Dog. Peter Piper Picked A Peck Of Pickled Pepper. Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba.
My reply to this runs straight on and it's difficult to determine where the original ends and the reply starts.
2)
Poster -2 wrote: The bigger they come, the harder they fall. It takes one to know one. Many a mickle makes a muckle.
It's much clearer to recognise the reply.
3)
Poster-3 wrote: With NESTED quotes, the problem gets much more confusing.
Poster-4 wrote:I can get my wires crossed about who said what.
Poster-5 wrote: Would colour coding of quotes help?