General Quoting Courtesy

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I’ve noticed it a lot in the GT4 forum and it’s been getting on some members nerves too. People have this obsession when quoting to leave the original image/s in the quote, so you end up with the same image posted over and over. Here’s a good example.

Is there a way when people quote images, the images get turned into simple links, for example, “quoted image” which is a link to the url of the image? It all helps to keep 56k'ers like me happy :).
 
Why, once the image loads once it's loaded everywhere on the page? Admittidly it is messy but I don't think it has much of an effect on loading times.

Blake
 
Blake
Why, once the image loads once it's loaded everywhere on the page? Admittidly it is messy but I don't think it has much of an effect on loading times.

Blake
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:indiff: The next excuse, it wears out my scroll wheel.
 
I think it would be nice just to not have to scroll through replies with quoted pictures with them. Many times having to scroll through the same images in quotes can be quite displeasing. I think it's a wonderful idea. Wouldn't it also save bandwith? I mean because it's sending to and from the source each time it wants to use the picture. I really don't know which is why I'm asking.
 
If I come across someone who's quoted an image, I always change it to a link… I've never really said anything about it though. I definitely think it'd be a good rule though. The MacNN forums have this rule (which is also where I got the idea for thumbnails in the Desktops thread), and it keeps everything nice and clean.

Slick6
IWouldn't it also save bandwith? I mean because it's sending to and from the source each time it wants to use the picture.
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Nope. Once the image loads once, your browser caches it, and uses the cache to display it the rest of the times.
 
Sage
If I come across someone who's quoted an image, I always change it to a link… I've never really said anything about it though. I definitely think it'd be a good rule though. The MacNN forums have this rule (which is also where I got the idea for thumbnails in the Desktops thread), and it keeps everything nice and clean.


Nope. Once the image loads once, your browser caches it, and uses the cache to display it the rest of the times.
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Ahh, so that was you! I tend to do that lately, not all the time, only when the image is over about 4-500px wide. Because when it's small I don't think it looks messy so I usually leave it.

Blake
 
What gets on my nerves is when someone makes a nice big post with lots of pictures and some tool quotes the whole post only to say 'Wow that's cool :eek:!'
 
Taurine
What gets on my nerves is when someone makes a nice big post with lots of pictures and some tool quotes the whole post only to say 'Wow that's cool :eek:!'
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Yep, that's really annoying. I've started editing posts like that.
 
I know that there is a vBulletin hack that causes the signature image to be displayed once on the page. Example; if I have a signature picture, and I posted 4 times on the page, the signature image would be on the first post and only on the first post.

There's probably a hack for it on vBulletin.org.

Edit: Yes! I've found it, here's the link to the direct post. Hopefully it works out. This is the main thread incase the direct post link doesn't work. 👍
 
This is one of my biggest annoyances...I'm suprised at myself for not making an effort to change it sooner. 👎 The code you linked to, sUn, is more than 4 years old and is irrelevant to the latest version of vBulletin. However, I've posted a request there for more (new) help. I'd love to get this integrated very soon.
 
On the same subject, I seem to recall in the Usenet days, that you couldn't post a new article unless the text you were writing was longer than the text you were quoting.

Maybe it was the app I was using to browse Usenet. Time addles the mind.
 
Jordan
The code you linked to, sUn, is more than 4 years old and is irrelevant to the latest version of vBulletin.
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:O

My mistake, I should've thought about that. Sorry about that. :guilty:
 
Is it possible, in that case, to make a post which has X amount of characters or a certain amount of
 
No, not really. That would be more difficult than just removing images from quotes.
 
GilesGuthrie
Yep, that's really annoying. I've started editing posts like that.
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I noticed you've taken to doing that. 👍

Somebody should make a new rule about quoting big posts only to add a tiny little reply.

Duke? You, Giles?
 
Stinky Chicken
I noticed you've taken to doing that. 👍

Somebody should make a new rule about quoting big posts only to add a tiny little reply.

Duke? You, Giles?
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:lol: that would be a great rule but most of the GTP members that do this are new here so.......you know not alot of new members read the rules.
 
Yah, it'd just be another rule that would give a reason for the "mature and nice" GTP members to yell at new members for not following it.
 
Jordan
This is one of my biggest annoyances...I'm suprised at myself for not making an effort to change it sooner. 👎 The code you linked to, sUn, is more than 4 years old and is irrelevant to the latest version of vBulletin. However, I've posted a request there for more (new) help. I'd love to get this integrated very soon.
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Surely this would be a simple string replace function... replace [IMG= with [URL= and /IMG] with /URL]?

I know that URL can have 2 different forms so that you can display text instead of the link... but that wouldn't really be necessary here... simply replacing the IMG tags inside of the QUOTED text when the QUOTE button is pressed would do the job... there is obviously already some code that removes all other QUOTE's from inside the current Quote so therefore you've probably already got some string mangling functions running already... would simply be a case of changing it?

C.
 

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