How to use the Quote feature....and other questions about the share symbol....

I'm sorry... I know what a share symbol is.  But where is it?  

Ron

Ok... It appears to be a browser issue.  I use Chrome.  I can  not see the share symbol in Chrome but I can see the share symbol in Safari.  Great company this Crowdstack is.  I thought developers where supposed to make their stuff work on multiple platforms?

Chrome

Safari

I'm sorry Alan, but "Copy link to reply" is not a replacement for quoting... I really hope we can regain that quoting functionality that most of us used effectively as you sort things out with this upgrade. And to blame it on the upgrade is disingenuous as it appears to be an OGR decision:

https://hey.crowdstack.com/sup...s-back-several-years

EDIT:

It is further confirmed that the Quoting issue is an OGR decision as you can see the customized edit clearly here:

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...ss-1584140144000.css

One can override this setting client side by injecting this CSS in their browser or via a proxy or any other number of ways:

.h-quote-menu-item {
 display: unset !important;
}

I guess this is my bottom line... While some have misused & abused the quoting functionality, many many more used it to great effect and the benefits outweigh what I perceive to be a vocal minority. Nobody is has been reaching out to OGR every time they saw an effective quoting operation and said "Gee, this quote tied this response together despite the rats nest of tangents on this thread. Please don't take quoting away". But there were some when their feathers got ruffled by a misuse of a quote, by george OGR heard about it. To bad OGR couldn't have conducted a poll of sorts to really determine a representative sentiment. But this is OGR's forum, and they can do as they please with it. It is just a shame that a useful engagement tool has been removed. I'll be less inclined to engage and share my help with others if I have to put more effort into deciphering a wall "geocities" looking copy paste and subsequent reformat and spent more time formatting my responses to have proper looking quotes.

Since I don't see the share symbol with FF, that option doesn't work well for me.  Here's all I see.

Kind of like upgrading from Windows 7 to 10. Moderate learning curve follows....

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...2#138682179728734472

I clicked the share button

Clicked on Copy Link to reply

Pasted it into this new post.

Is this how it's supposed to work?  Just show a link to a thread I'm already replying to?

Real change for "improvement" is good.  Change for the sake of change with no value added, is stupid.

Wow! Tough crowd...As requested,I  think we should give Alan some time to research solutions. For what it's worth, I use the Chrome browser and the share symbol has been visible on my devices since the upgrade.

John

bmoran4Member:
"I'm sorry Alan, but "Copy link to reply" is not a replacement for quoting... I really hope we can regain that quoting functionality that most of us used effectively as you sort things out with this upgrade. And to blame it on the upgrade is disingenuous as it appears to be an OGR decision"

FWIW, when Rich posted that it was "fixed" to Crowdstack  yesterday ,the "Reply with quote" option was indeed functional.

John MeynckeMember Digital Subscriber

I also use Chrome, and there's no sign of any share symbol. Had to use copy and paste for this.

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...7#138682179729104377

I guess you missed where Rich said he had the configuration settings to disable the reply with quote and that "we just may do that" 

ACDX Rob, 

Can you share how exactly you do quoting to make it look like the old way in your posts?  When I do it, it just pasted a link?

Thanks

Ron

OK... For those who can NOT see the share symbol, check you Ad Blockers.  I disabled the ad blocker in Chrome and Share is now visible.

Ron

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...c/138682179727710928

I think mine is working same as Ron045 re: the pasting as Alan suggested.  The above was supposed to be a quote of Alan's post. It's a link alright, but it certainly does not look like a quote.  Using Firefox 74.0 on a Windows PC.

I do seed the Share icon.  It would be nice if the Copy item was above all the other social media platforms.  But I guess with Facebook being the number one big brother ....er.. I mean social media site, I guess that's why it needs to be on top.  {edit: I now see all those other options only exist on the opening post for a thread, so I guess it may not be too bad... all the subsequent posts just show the Copy item}

Ironically, while I can see all the other pics ADCX Rob posted (ie, Firefox version example), I can't see the one where he is trying to share his quote method with us.  {edit:  seems that's on my end.  my anti virus doesn't like something about a certificate at URL:www.upl.co}

I'm starting to think the main purpose of this upgrade was to defeat ad-blocking software. (not by OGR, by Crowdstack, the underlying part the OGR folks have no control over)

-Dave

OGR CEO Publisher posted:

...If you want to quote someone in order to respond to their post, you will click on the share symbol and then copy it. When you get ready to respond on the thread, just paste what you copied first...then go ahead and make your response and publish it to the thread. You will see that a link to the post you copied and are responding to is there. 

I prefer the previous "reply with quote" method.  Yes, quote sometimes, if not often was not used most efficiently where a quote user could or should've trimmed the original source post so as not to regurgitate a sometimes long multi-subject and picture filled post for a response to one specific item within.  Trying to include multiple quotes has become a chore over the past several "updates" to forum software unless your ability to html source-code or whatever it's called is up to snuff.

Another NOW-MISSING feature is when selecting Print Topic, the ability to select single, 10 or 100 posts.  Sometimes I would print a thread (either PDF or paper) for future reference and the ability to see all the topic's posts is more useful than the current software's single/individual post version.

The previous "reply with quote" method was being badly abused. People would re-post a dozen photos, only to add, “Nice pictures!” at the bottom of the post. Photo-centric threads became a mess and almost impossible to read.

Attempts to change this bad habit fell on deaf ears. So we disabled the feature. That’s the reason...no more, no less.

I get it, but the result could be worse.

I could just ignore the picture threads, knowing that would happen (or grin and bear it and just slog through it).

Now if I want to reply to include several other members (trimmed - I almost NEVER quote in entirety) posts to add to a discussion, I may just sit it out, since it's so much more involved to do so now.

I'm not the most prolific poster, so I guess not a huge loss if it comes to that.  Hopefully it doesn't drive too many people in that direction though.

-Dave

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...4#138682179732870344

I must be an  idiot.  I'm trying to follow the directions and can not get my reply with quote to look like ADCX Rob's or Keystone's.  I've turned off Ad blocker, used three browsers, and android and an iphone and all it does is paste this link.

If the problem was excessive reply of pictures, why didn't you just disable the copying of pics when we clicked Reply with Quote?

Very Frustrating.