Quoting Suggestion

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    Originally Posted By jonvn

    Many of these topics ends up with a person or persons putting a flood of information in them via quoting a website.

    Can we please pare down the amount of quoted material? Put in a one or two line summary of what you think it says, and then put in a link to the actual information?

    It would be different if there was a quoting mechanism here where we could block off quoted material, or at least put it in a different typeface, but without that, the quoted stuff gets lost in the rest of the text.

    So, my suggestion is limit the amount of actual quoted text to just what is needed and put a link in. It makes it a lot easier to see what you are saying.
     
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    Originally Posted By berol

    Quotes do tend to be a lot longer than they need to be, especially the ones from media cuz LP.com can get in trouble over the lengthier ones. I like the quick summary/snippet + link idea.
     
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    Originally Posted By patrickegan

    Then you run the risk of people asking for more info then just snippets...
     
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    Originally Posted By EdisYoda

    That's why you put the link in too.
     
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    Originally Posted By jonvn

    Yes. Quote a line or two, and then put in the link. And if people ask for more info, you tell them to go read the link.
     
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    Originally Posted By patrickegan

    I agree, it's just an internet thing (whinging)
     

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