Can we make a new Fluther rule?
When a user wants another user to read what he or she posted up yonder, they give all kinds of instructions to get to the comment they want them to read, like, “See the comment 3 posts above Ben’s which is 4 posts above Andrew’s.”
Instead, they should just repost the comment so people don’t have to go hunt for it.
All in favor say “Aye.”
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Meta, much?
And to answer your question, I don’t think we’re much of a rule following gang.
A suggestion, then. Just as a common courtesy.
More rules, more confusion. Stick with what works.
Not a rule, Just a suggestion. I mean, the person telling the other to go on that wild goose chase knows exactly where the quote that he wants some one to read is, so just copy the damn thing and repost. It takes about as much time as drawing them a treasure map.
Well, if someone doesn’t want to go back, they don’t have to. And I don’t see the involved directions you describe, the most complex ones I see are things like “see my last comment” or “see @ben’s second comment”. Certainly not too much for even the laziest among us.
See @janbb‘s first comment. ;-)
I think maybe a better idea might be to link to the permalink
Or that. Anything except directions to some obscure comment that was posted 28 comments ago.
If you want my answer, you are going to have to look at the 5th response under my 19th question.
What @johnpowell just did works well.
I’ll sometimes do this…
“And to answer your question, I don’t think we’re much of a rule following gang.”
I agree with what the Penguin said above.
I take the word “rule” back. It’s just a suggestion to keep conversation flowing more smoothly. It’s also a polite thing to do. Nobody has to do it.
I, for one, will be doing this. Well, I’m pretty sure I usually do, unless the post is right above me or something.
The permalink is not working at some threads.
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You just have to know which option to choose to save it, @flo .
I know, ..............
Let’s invent quotation marks and attribution.
^^^ Well, that would be the same as simply copying and pasting the remarks in the thread you want them to read. That was one of my suggestions. ANYTHING but trying to draw a map with words leading to the source.
For example, in the question I asked about URL’s not displaying on my phone the way they do on a lap top or desk top, in my last comment, responding to another user (don’t remember who) I repeated my example photographs, which I had originally posted in my 2nd, which was about 12 or 13 comments above that…..
Or This
Which I originally posted here
Permalink works in this thread. By the way if I want the permalink feature, I just hover to the right of the “Falg as”, under each answer, and click on that icon (whatever it’s called). That is all there is to it.
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