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Originally posted by frayedends:
I get quoting a section of someone’s post to address a specific part of it. I get quoting a post in an ongoing active thread so people know which post you are responding to. But why quote an entire first post of a new thread. We don’t need to read the OP twice.

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:

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Originally posted by frayedends:
I get quoting a section of someone’s post to address a specific part of it. I get quoting a post in an ongoing active thread so people know which post you are responding to. But why quote an entire first post of a new thread. We don’t need to read the OP twice.

Agreed.

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:

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Originally posted by frayedends:
I get quoting a section of someone’s post to address a specific part of it. I get quoting a post in an ongoing active thread so people know which post you are responding to. But why quote an entire first post of a new thread. We don’t need to read the OP twice.

Agreed.

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Originally posted by frayedends:
I should have known this would happen.

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Originally posted by Mustang-PaPa:

I opened this thread knowing that at-least the first few post would quote the op. Quite the predictable bunch here.

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Originally posted by frayedends:
I get quoting a section of someone’s post to address a specific part of it. I get quoting a post in an ongoing active thread so people know which post you are responding to. But why quote an entire first post of a new thread. We don’t need to read the OP twice.

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Originally posted by frayedends:
I get quoting a section of someone’s post to address a specific part of it. I get quoting a post in an ongoing active thread so people know which post you are responding to. But why quote an entire first post of a new thread. We don’t need to read the OP twice.

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Originally posted by frayedends:
I should have known this would happen.

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Originally posted by jljones:

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Originally posted by frayedends:
I should have known this would happen.

Frayedends, you can’t spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes. You fucked up. You trusted us. Hey, make the best of it. Maybe we can help.

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Originally posted by frayedends:
But why quote an entire first post of a new thread. We don’t need to read the OP twice.

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Originally posted by jljones:

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Originally posted by frayedends:
I should have known this would happen.

Frayedends, you can’t spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes. You fucked up. You trusted us. Hey, make the best of it. Maybe we can help.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:

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Originally posted by frayedends:
I get quoting a section of someone’s post to address a specific part of it. I get quoting a post in an ongoing active thread so people know which post you are responding to. But why quote an entire first post of a new thread. We don’t need to read the OP twice.

Agreed.

Let alone, three times...

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

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Originally posted by frayedends:
But why quote an entire first post of a new thread. We don’t need to read the OP twice.

That and top posting (aka: "Jeopardy style posting"), where the new comments precede the content to which is being replied, once-upon-a-time would've gotten the offenders thoroughly flamed and they would've transgressed no more. Then one of my favourite companies of all time, Microsoft, came along and made their email application do something no email application that preceded theirs had done: It put the respondent's cursor above the text to which was being replied.

This was after the Internet became commercially accessible, but before the Web. A social network of sorts called "Usenet News" was still used. Microsoft created a Usenet News application. You guessed it: Defying the custom to that point: They also made their Usenet News application put the cursor in front of quoted text on follow-ups/replies.

Because it puts the answer before the question. Why is top-posting called "Jeopardy style" posting?

Since Microsoft's software took the Internet by storm, at least for end-user use, this quickly led to people getting lazy. Among other things: Leading people to simply full-quote everything, all the time. After all: Since their replies preceded that to which they were replying, why bother scrolling down to tidy things up?

ETA: Just noticed member haveme1or2 likes documentaries, so: Some Usenet News history trivia:

The behaviour described above so-annoyed some Usenet News traditionalists they'd put filters in their newsreader applications to automatically "ignore" posts made with Microsoft's application.

Others, with a more Evil mindset, found that Microsoft's application would choke, sometimes to the point of crashing, on certain malforumed News post content tags, so they configured their posting clients to always insert those tags into their posts.

Some Usenet News server admins would even put filters in their site's newsfeeds, automatically filtering-out posts that had header information identifying them as having been made with Microsoft's application.

Ah, good times, good times

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Originally posted by REdwin89:
Just love when the quote includes the 6 or 7 big pics of the OP's new pistol and then just "nice" is added.

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Originally posted by frayedends:
Rubes and dullards, all of you. I hate you all as much as when someone changes what you actually wrote.