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Double post interfering with editing comments

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Tsurayu
14 years ago
The new, I guess I should say code?, that prevents a user from double posting is slightly cumbersome. I went to edit what I had said by including a quote from another poster because I had something to say regarding specifically what they said. However, I always go about doing that by clicking "Quote" copying their quotation and editing that into my message. Since I'm the most recent poster, if I click on "Quote" it won't even take me to that person's message because the code assumes I am using it to Double Post and takes me back to my last message.

I guess it isn't a big deal because you could always just type out the quoting code yourself, but what can I say. I nitpick like everyone else, and eventually that's going to become an issue with more people.
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GoodDay
14 years ago
I second this.

Yes, copying the quote yourself is easy, but copying something like
User#1 wrote...
aefaefaefafeaf
User#2 wrote...
aefafaf
User#3 wrote...
aefafafa
User#4 wrote...
aefaefefafafaef
User#5 wrote...
Example


is troublesome
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Badguy
14 years ago
Third, I support this.
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jmason Curious and Wondering
14 years ago
Though I can guess why the double-post checking process handles it like that (to deter double-posters from the get-go and save a ton of time in processing posts that will eventually be nixed), I also noticed that it also deters people trying to get quotes from previous posts while their last post is still the latest one on the thread (I encounter that a lot in Nosebleed).

Though I just cope by copy-pasting the post I want to quote. But as GoodDay says, quoting the quote pyramids is going to be troublesome.

I suggest a little nifty modification to the existing process - allow the URL querystring to adjust for a quote when redirecting for double-posting, and append the quoted post at the end of the text box, but retain the double-post warning.

Spoiler:
Maybe an addition to the existing process for redirecting double-posts will address this issue. Keep the double-post warning but append the intended quote on the end of the BB textbox's content with the user's still-latest post to allow the user to get the quote message, and use it as intended while on edit mode for his/her post.

Like, if the original URL has mode set to quote (?mode=quote), then if the validation process detects that it will lead to a double-post, one can include a quoting parameter to the intended redirection URL with the quoted post id, append a new process to handle that parameter and retrieve the quote message for appending.

Although on the downside the URL will be a bit longer, and a wee bit of time will add to the loading process to get the quoted post message.

EDIT: On second thought, maybe this one can be extensive depending on how the double-post detection process goes. My stepbrother chided me for being too detailed on my suggestion so I scaled it down. But hopefully the gist is still clear ^_^

Hopefully my suggestion helps a bit. :)
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