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After each post there is now a quotation mark followed by the word ‘quote’ to the left of the ‘like’ thumbs up sign.
I fiddled with it and it appears to copy and paste the poster’s note and allows you to add your own comments. I hope this is some sort of error. I know some people like to copy and paste someone else’s post (redundant, impersonal and unnecessary) before writing their own message.
I’m hoping this is just another schizophrenic episode of the Forum. If this is a permanent feature, I am really beginning to question Tauck’s judgement, especially given all the other errors. Just my opinion.
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I actually think it’s a nice option if people don’t use it too much - or quote lengthy passages - sometimes 15 people will add comments and you want to respond to one at the beginning and it’s confusing if you can’t figure out who/what they are responding to. Not sure why someone would think this is impersonal - it’s actually more personal because they’re responding to a specific post. 🤷♀️
We are all different. My preference is to address and acknowledge an individual by name. I have seen people copy and paste paragraph after paragraph only to say a few words. I often wonder if their intent is to show how adept they are at copying and pasting. Merely my opinion.
This is a common feature of most forums. There are advantages to quoting. One advantage is to indicate who and what you're replying to. Sometimes someone will want to reply specifically to what someone posted, and there are several intervening posts. This allows the person replying to indicate what their post is replying to.
Some other forums lock a person's post after a fairly short while (maybe an hour) so that it cannot be changed or erased. Tauck still allows people to edit or delete their posts at any time. If a person wants to reply to a specific statement someone made, it's safer to quote it because that person cannot change the quote. They can change their original post but not the quote.
Some forums allow you to include multiple quotes. So I might want to reply to two people in one post. I'd include the two quotes and put my response after each quote. So you'd see
"Quote"
"Response"
"Quote"
"Response"
Also, notice that Tauck now does like many other forums and only shows the first few lines of the quote. If you want to read the whole quote you can click on the "down caret".
It's just Tauck joining the modern world😊 If you want to do it a different way, go for it.
Just about every forum has a quote feature. It is useful so that when someone comments, you know exactly what they are responding to.
I think it's a good feature. Now if they would only bring back the spam notification flag.
I see they at least truncate the copied post which makes this feature a bit more tolerable. I’ll leave it at that.
The ‘quote’ would have been useful when a regular forum person would make remarks and then delete them after a few days so people’s replies would look odd. Otherwise I’m on the fence about whether it is a useful feature or not. When the thread is long it is certainly worth going back to the beginning to see what the original poster said which I admit I do not always do.
Some other changes I see, the icons underneath in this box as I am writing.
That is not the only changes to the "new" forums and message pages. If you are a fan of emojis, now you have access to multiple libraries of multitudes of smilies and such- animals, food, etc., etc. Also, the text editing features have changed- to make a text bold or italicized, etc. you highlight the text then select the formatting from a pop-up. Also, Markdown code that could be used to add color, underline, font size, etc. to text in the past no longer works. It appears "preview" no longer exists in the forums (it never existed in messages.)
One forum I was on started locking posts bcause one person got upset and tried to go back and delete every post he had ever made - going back years.
So now, you have a certain length of time to make changes and then the post is locked - the poster cannot change it.
If there's really a reason to change a post, the original poster can contact a moderator and request that a change be made. It may, or may not, be changed by the moderator.
It doesn't look like Tauck implemented that, but maybe in the future.