Recommendations for myself

[T.G]

Originally Posted by DaBear

I honestly dont see the problem with what he's doing. The @ thing is keeping the thread from getting spammed from him responding to every post.

Could just as easily use the multi-quote function and insert replies in between the individual quotes. The biggest advantage is that it saves a lot of scrolling up and down to see the context that the reply was referring to, since as this isn't twitter, a decent percentage of the people here are actually interested in reading more responses than just their own / those directed towards them. With 5 or 6 quotes allowed per post, it wouldn't clutter up the thread any more than the nearly incomprehensible replies with all the @, $, %, ‡, ∙, ¬, ™, š, Ð, #tigerblood stuff in them.

[DaBear]

Originally Posted by T.G

Could just as easily use the multi-quote function and insert replies in between the individual quotes. The biggest advantage is that it saves a lot of scrolling up and down to see the context that the reply was referring to, since as this isn't twitter, a decent percentage of the people here are actually interested in reading more responses than just their own / those directed towards them. With 5 or 6 quotes allowed per post, it wouldn't clutter up the thread any more than the nearly incomprehensible replies with all the @, $, %, ‡, ∙, ¬, ™, š, Ð, #tigerblood stuff in them.

For the record, I'm not so sure everyone even knows how to use the multi-quote, as I still haven't figured it out and have been here quite awhile, so I wouldn't assume a guy whos been here just shy of two months tops to have it all figured out. Not trying to start a fight or anything, just sayin how I see it. The @ thing is much simpler and less time consuming than quoting each post and copy-pasting it into another window/tab as I've done a number of times.

[T.G]

Originally Posted by DaBear

For the record, I'm not so sure everyone even knows how to use the multi-quote, as I still haven't figured it out and have been here quite awhile, so I wouldn't assume a guy whos been here just shy of two months tops to have it all figured out.

It takes about 6 seconds to figure out... on a bad day, with a hangover, on a 14.4 dial up, running mosaic.

Originally Posted by T.G

That is precisely the reason why the multi-quote function is great. Hit the multi-quote button (the " button to the right of the QUOTE button) for each of the posts you wish to respond to, then on the final one, click quote, and they will all be individually quoted in a single new post in the advanced editor. You don't have to scroll or keep track of posts to reply to either, you just insert your replies between the quoted posts.

And now you know.

Originally Posted by DaBear

Not trying to start a fight or anything, just sayin how I see it. The @ thing is much simpler and less time consuming than quoting each post and copy-pasting it into another window/tab as I've done a number of times.

We already covered this, four times. Furthermore, the @herpderp works on twitter because of the automatic conversation threading, Over there, it's quite easy to actually bring up the post that was being responded to along with the entire conversation, so things actually are in context and make sense.
Here... not so much.

But hey, if you wish to be obtuse about understanding the differences between the sites, their format and conventions along with how the use of @herpderp nonsense yields exceptionally poor quality and hard to understand posts here, go for it.