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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Most forums I belong to have each post in a thread numbered. It is a handy thing when you are quoting or referencing a previous post in a thread.
Does the forum software we are using allow you to number each post?
Thanks.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
Good question - that would be very helpful.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
8938 Posts |
Yes it does in the url it says TOPIC_ID=
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10038 Posts |
Or go to the topic and click the rightmost icon in the string of them located directly above the first line of content. The rightmost icon brings up a window generating a link to that post.  Doing so brings up this window:  Click to copy - paste into desired post. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5675 Posts |
I think the question was whether each post can be numbered so you can reference a specific post in a thread, not the entire thread.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
900 Posts |
@Zurie The described button does link to the specific post within the thread. http://goccf.com/t/346592#2968329I'm not suggesting that it is the same as numbering though. I have been in forums that use the same framework as this one, but there is a quote button in each post that quotes the post, specifies the poster, and includes a link to the post. It is much more helpful than our quote feature here. |
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Forum Dad
 United States
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It is much more helpful than our quote feature here. No, it's not. It makes people extremely lazy. We had that here and almost every single topic by the second page had members quoting posts... Quote:...inside of posts Quote:...inside of posts Quote:...inside of posts Quote:...inside of posts Quote:
...inside of posts It was the most annoying thing I've ever encountered on the forum, ever, and I'm on a PC. If I was on a phone I can't even imagine. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
900 Posts |
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No, it's not. It makes people extremely lazy. We had that here and almost every single topic by the second page had members quoting posts...
Whatever you say boss.  Actually, I know what you are talking about, and I agree that is a terrible implementation. I was thinking of a site where when you quote a user's post, it only quotes what they had written. If they had quoted someone else, that would not show up. If you wanted to see what they had quoted, you click a link and it takes you to the quoted post. If you wanted a series of embedded quotes as you had shown (which can be useful in a debate forum), you had to work a bit harder to get there. Its not the type of feature that you want people to use on every post, because that's just a waste of space. Its basically useful for those posts where you preface with @username, or where you use the quote feature now. Just to be clear, I'm not complaining. I'm happy to have this forum. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Very interesting discussion. What seems obvious isn't always so.
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Posted 05/04/2019 09:55 am
