Jeff changed the tags on this post: they were "code, post, Click, Godfather, Offer, Information (disambiguation), Quote, Check, File, Works" 2 years, 4 months ago.
Yay!!!
This will help tremendously in responding to the twists and turns in various posts.
Jeff wrote:
Click “edit post” to check out the code I used if you’re not sure how it works.
Just testing…
SUPA sweeeet dawg! Lovin it!
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Like this (I hope)
Michael Corleone wrote:
I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse
darn it,
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I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse
Still not perfect
{quote Michael Corleone}I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse{/quote}
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The helpiest helper on help wrote:
I love to help people! And I love help.com!
:P
I wonder…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
The helpiest helper on help wrote:
I love to help people! And I love help.com!
:P
Yup. Note to the wise: Don’t get carried away — Quote Pyramids that get out of hand are highly frowned upon.
Holy quote pyramids Batman!!
We shall do our best not to get that carried away lol!
PS How do you pyramid them anyway?
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
PS How do you pyramid them anyway?
It’ll be easier once I add the “quote this reply” button I’m working on right this moment.
Alrighty then, King Quoteness! :D
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In a few moments, there will be a new little button right next to the red flag which will let you quote the reply it’s attached to. It looks like this 
Jeff wrote:
In a few moments, there will be a new little button right next to the red flag which will let you quote the reply it’s attached to. It looks like this
It’s already there ;)
Jeff wrote:
In a few moments, there will be a new little button right next to the red flag which will let you quote the reply it’s attached to. It looks like this
That’s better
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Jeff wrote:
In a few moments, there will be a new little button right next to the red flag which will let you quote the reply it’s attached to. It looks like this
It’s already there ;)
testing pyramidical possibilities
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You know that ‘quotable’ button has always confused me, I haven’t worked out what it does yet. But I think it is some sort of thank you button, so here’s a suggestion.
As the word “quotable” will confuse people into thinking that is the “quote” button perhaps you could change that to a green thumbs up icon?
Rosanbo wrote:
As the word “quotable” will confuse people into thinking that is the “quote” button perhaps you could change that to a green thumbs up icon?
Yeah, that particular dilemma has crossed my mind, and that seems like an suitable solution.
Jeff wrote:
Rosanbo wrote:
As the word “quotable” will confuse people into thinking that is the “quote” button perhaps you could change that to a green thumbs up icon?
Yeah, that particular dilemma has crossed my mind, and that seems like an suitable solution.
Just lettin ya know I agree, hourglasses are for how long we’ve been here, I wondered why that was the symbol for this…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Jeff wrote:
Rosanbo wrote:
As the word “quotable” will confuse people into thinking that is the “quote” button perhaps you could change that to a green thumbs up icon?
Yeah, that particular dilemma has crossed my mind, and that seems like an suitable solution.
Just lettin ya know I agree, hourglasses are for how long we’ve been here, I wondered why that was the symbol for this…
I like the little quotey symbol better :D
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Just lettin ya know I agree, hourglasses are for how long we’ve been here, I wondered why that was the symbol for this…
Click this file:
- http://help.com/media/images/sicons.png
and do a hard refresh on it (hold ctrl and click your refresh button.) then come back and reload this page. Should fix the problem.
Yeah I got the quote symbol instead of the hourglass. Now we need something for the “qoutable”.
Got it, thanks, I see the little quotey thingy :D
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I wonder if you can anon quote….
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Got it, thanks, I see the little quotey thingy :D
Anonymous wrote:
I wonder if you can anon quote….
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Got it, thanks, I see the little quotey thingy :D
Yep :)
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I wonder if you can anon quote….
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Got it, thanks, I see the little quotey thingy :D
Yep :)
This whole quoteyness is just too fun for me not to play with it =]
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I wonder if you can anon quote….
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Got it, thanks, I see the little quotey thingy :D
Yep :)
This whole quoteyness is just too fun for me not to play with it =]
Yeah, I’m talking to myself :P
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I wonder if you can anon quote….
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Got it, thanks, I see the little quotey thingy :D
Yep :)
This whole quoteyness is just too fun for me not to play with it =]
Yeah, I’m talking to myself :P
Since Jeff said we could make crazy big pyramids on this post, I’m gonna.
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
I wonder if you can anon quote….
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Got it, thanks, I see the little quotey thingy :D
Yep :)
This whole quoteyness is just too fun for me not to play with it =]
Yeah, I’m talking to myself :P
Since Jeff said we could make crazy big pyramids on this post, I’m gonna.
Makin a big quotey thingy wooooo!
Putting words at the top now…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
I wonder if you can anon quote….
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Got it, thanks, I see the little quotey thingy :D
Yep :)
This whole quoteyness is just too fun for me not to play with it =]
Yeah, I’m talking to myself :P
Since Jeff said we could make crazy big pyramids on this post, I’m gonna.
Makin a big quotey thingy wooooo!
More on the top…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Putting words at the top now…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
I wonder if you can anon quote….
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Got it, thanks, I see the little quotey thingy :D
Yep :)
This whole quoteyness is just too fun for me not to play with it =]
Yeah, I’m talking to myself :P
Since Jeff said we could make crazy big pyramids on this post, I’m gonna.
Makin a big quotey thingy wooooo!
Apparently I’m enjoying talking to myself and doing nothing of importance :P
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
More on the top…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Putting words at the top now…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I wonder if you can anon quote….
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Got it, thanks, I see the little quotey thingy :D
Yep :)
This whole quoteyness is just too fun for me not to play with it =]
Yeah, I’m talking to myself :P
Since Jeff said we could make crazy big pyramids on this post, I’m gonna.
Makin a big quotey thingy wooooo!
Yay!
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Apparently I’m enjoying talking to myself and doing nothing of importance :P
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
More on the top…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Putting words at the top now…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I wonder if you can anon quote….
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Got it, thanks, I see the little quotey thingy :D
Yep :)
This whole quoteyness is just too fun for me not to play with it =]
Yeah, I’m talking to myself :P
Since Jeff said we could make crazy big pyramids on this post, I’m gonna.
Makin a big quotey thingy wooooo!
Yay!
I’m weird…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Yay!
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Apparently I’m enjoying talking to myself and doing nothing of importance :P
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
More on the top…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Putting words at the top now…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I wonder if you can anon quote….
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Got it, thanks, I see the little quotey thingy :D
Yep :)
This whole quoteyness is just too fun for me not to play with it =]
Yeah, I’m talking to myself :P
Since Jeff said we could make crazy big pyramids on this post, I’m gonna.
Makin a big quotey thingy wooooo!
Yay!
I know…
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This is too cool :)
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
I’m weird…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Yay!
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Apparently I’m enjoying talking to myself and doing nothing of importance :P
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
More on the top…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Putting words at the top now…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
I wonder if you can anon quote….
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Got it, thanks, I see the little quotey thingy :D
Yep :)
This whole quoteyness is just too fun for me not to play with it =]
Yeah, I’m talking to myself :P
Since Jeff said we could make crazy big pyramids on this post, I’m gonna.
Makin a big quotey thingy wooooo!
Yay!
I know…
It’s fun!!
-Sophie- wrote:
semms piontless to mee. will some explain what good this is…?
Ok ok I’m stopping for now…
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Jeff wrote:
In a few moments, there will be a new little button right next to the red flag which will let you quote the reply it’s attached to. It looks like this
Ok, I found the button, even though it shows up invisible since it’s a little white square on a white background. In fact, the only reason I knew it was a little white square was from reading your reply which is on a pink background so the little white square stood out from the pink background a little bit.
Is this supposed to happen or is something wrong with the colors on my screen, or my eyes (which would be worse).
Cady:
Jeff wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Just lettin ya know I agree, hourglasses are for how long we’ve been here, I wondered why that was the symbol for this…
Click this file:
- http://help.com/media/images/sicons.png
and do a hard refresh on it (hold ctrl and click your refresh button.) then come back and reload this page. Should fix the problem.
Jeff wrote:
Cady:
Jeff wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Just lettin ya know I agree, hourglasses are for how long we’ve been here, I wondered why that was the symbol for this…
Click this file:
- http://help.com/media/images/sicons.png
and do a hard refresh on it (hold ctrl and click your refresh button.) then come back and reload this page. Should fix the problem.
Ahhh, I see now. Thank you. I missed that tip because you were talking about hourglasses! I didn’t even get an hourglass!
Anyway, problem solved. I now see an interesting looking conversation bubble with quotes in it. Hopefully that’s what I should be seeing. :P
cady wrote:
I now see an interesting looking conversation bubble with quotes in it.
Yep, that’s the right thingy :)
It really IS awesome. I’ve been wanting a feature like this for a while now!! I’m so glad he read my mind, (since I don’t believe I actually wished for it out loud). :)
Yeah, it makes it so much easier to see who your reply is meant for. =] I love it!
hi jeff — if we need to find the thumb/check whatever icon, in the meantime could we just replace the ‘quotable!’ text with ‘Best Reply’ or something similar so that people don’t get confused?
everyone - please feel free to chime in with alternatives if ‘best reply’ sounds lame btw
cady wrote:
LAME!!!
Agreed! lol
Ahaha. Kidding.
I’m all for making things say what they mean. “Best reply” works for me!
How about “Great Reply”…?
Best Reply
Spam
Not Spam
Send
Reply
Forward
Execute
All say what they mean.
That last one, I got off my casio. Not to be confused with “shall we execute him?”
Actually ‘Great Reply!’ is probably a better way to put it. Functionality wise though, our software only supports one reply being picked. So even though you might feel there are multiple ‘great replies’ on a post, you can really only vote for one…
Maybe ‘Favorite Reply’? Then it doesn’t make a statement of worth versus anyone else’s reply, which might be as good; it just means that a particular reply happens to be your ‘favorite’ of all…?
Well, not to bring up the competition or anything, but on Yahoo answers, there’s a button that says, “best reply”. And once a reply gets the most “best reply” clicks, it jumps to the top of the post with a special title “BEST REPLY AS CHOSEN BY USERS” or something similar.
It’s kind of a way to say, hey, we agree with this one. We think it answers the question the best and most accurately.
Which tells the poster, in case he can’t decide what is correct, that based on votes, his best choice is the “best reply”.
It could actually come in handy on things like homework posts. Not sure of the answer? Well, this many people said the answer was “this” so I’m going to go with that for now.
DOes that make sense?
Just a suggestion.
Kind of like integrating the polling feature with replies. Don’t need to take a poll of which is best, it’s already been taken care of.
Yeah, it’s a nice way to run it UNLESS the “best reply” gets pulled out of context :/
Also, shhhh about the yahoo place — we’re not to mention that name here!
silly jeff wrote:
shhhh about the yahoo place
LOL!!!
Oopsie. Forgive my blasphemy.
Help.com is sooooo much kooler NE way.
Jeff wrote:
Yeah, it’s a nice way to run it UNLESS the “best reply” gets pulled out of context :/
And yeah, yeah, of course that will happen.
So I guess it needs to be changed to “best reply in response to the original poster’s question not your BFF’s answer or the funniest thing said even though it didn’t have anything to do with the question being asked.”
But that’d be a **** long button. Maybe something else….
Why can I say hell but not ****? I know, I know, cause of the kiddies.
Haha you have a good point though in reply to what Jeff said.
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Haha you have a good point though in reply to what Jeff said.
You are supposed to quote who you are speaking to, so as not to cause confusion!! Haven’t you learned anything yet?
:)
cady wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Haha you have a good point though in reply to what Jeff said.
You are supposed to quote who you are speaking to, so as not to cause confusion!! Haven’t you learned anything yet?
:)
My bad :P
No biggie, at least you didn’t bring up Y****. Watch, it will be a new “censored” word tomorrow. haha.
Yeah, I apparently REALLY offended Erik with that. He totally ran out of here when I brought that up! Erik, I do apologize. Please forgive me. It won’t happen again.
No problem - I didn’t run out. But I do find the suggestion to add Y***o A****s to the moderation filter pretty interesting. :)
Actually Jeff - now that there’s quoting - won’t that whole ‘out of context’ argument be less relevant now?
Oops. That haha was directed to Erik’s reply about the moderation filtering of Y***O A*****S.
you should have quoted me. actually I just realized that I didn’t quote you either. it may take a while to break the habit of just replying linearly.
Erik wrote:
I just did it again!
doh!
Erik wrote:
you should have quoted me. actually I just realized that I didn’t quote you either. it may take a while to break the habit of just replying linearly.
Yes, but I wasn’t expecting you to speak again until I got a chance to open my mouth again! But yes (also) quoting would have prevented the problem altogether! It will be a hard habit to break. Especially in posts where it’s more of a chat than a write-a-response-and-move-on kind of thing.
Out of curiosity, why have you (Jeff) chosen to make it quote linearly (like that word), instead of just creating the option to reply directly to a specific reply?
I don’t know if that makes sense or not. I’m talking about what you’d see on some other forums, where instead of quoting someone, you just click “reply to this post” or something similar.
cady wrote:
Out of curiosity, why have you (Jeff) chosen to make it quote linearly (like that word), instead of just creating the option to reply directly to a specific reply?
I have wondered the same thing before.
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
cady wrote:
Out of curiosity, why have you (Jeff) chosen to make it quote linearly (like that word), instead of just creating the option to reply directly to a specific reply?
I have wondered the same thing before.
Yeah, I’m not saying I disagree with the way it is now. Please don’t misunderstand. I’m sure that’s easy to do since generally Cady complains about the changes…
I like the quote thing as it is, I was just wondering why you chose to quote instead of reply directly to another reply.
cady wrote:
Out of curiosity, why have you (Jeff) chosen to make it quote linearly (like that word), instead of just creating the option to reply directly to a specific reply?
I don’t know if that makes sense or not. I’m talking about what you’d see on some other forums, where instead of quoting someone, you just click “reply to this post” or something similar.
That only works if there is a ‘threaded view” to view the thread. Maybe Jeff doesn’t want to go there.
It’s my personal belief that threading is a bad way to address forums.
In some very, very few instances it can be useful, but if you really need to go off on a tangent, you should take it to a shouttrail, chat, or on large topics, start a new post.
Erik wrote:
hi jeff — if we need to find the thumb/check whatever icon
Updated icons. Little medals seems to say it well enough graphically, and the hover text has been changed to match.
Next step is to start aggregating these up on profiles to give credit where credit is due.
If anyone can’t see the new icons do a ctrl-F5
Jeff wrote:
“Feature Request”
What is it?
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
This is too cool :)
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
I’m weird…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Yay!
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Apparently I’m enjoying talking to myself and doing nothing of importance :P
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
More on the top…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Putting words at the top now…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
I wonder if you can anon quote….
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Got it, thanks, I see the little quotey thingy :D
Yep :)
This whole quoteyness is just too fun for me not to play with it =]
Yeah, I’m talking to myself :P
Since Jeff said we could make crazy big pyramids on this post, I’m gonna.
Makin a big quotey thingy wooooo!
Yay!
I know…
It’s fun!!
I’m on top of Mitzy now :P
Suc wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
This is too cool :)
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
I’m weird…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Yay!
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Apparently I’m enjoying talking to myself and doing nothing of importance :P
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
More on the top…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Putting words at the top now…
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
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Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I wonder if you can anon quote….
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
Got it, thanks, I see the little quotey thingy :D
Yep :)
This whole quoteyness is just too fun for me not to play with it =]
Yeah, I’m talking to myself :P
Since Jeff said we could make crazy big pyramids on this post, I’m gonna.
Makin a big quotey thingy wooooo!
Yay!
I know…
It’s fun!!
I’m on top of Mitzy now :P
Actually I’m underneath her
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Oh my gawd…
Is that a bug you need to fix? Lol
Everything has bugs, its like bugs are gonna take over the world
cady wrote:
Mitzalicious®™ wrote:
cady wrote:
Out of curiosity, why have you (Jeff) chosen to make it quote linearly (like that word), instead of just creating the option to reply directly to a specific reply?
I have wondered the same thing before.
Yeah, I’m not saying I disagree with the way it is now. Please don’t misunderstand. I’m sure that’s easy to do since generally Cady complains about the changes…
I like the quote thing as it is, I was just wondering why you chose to quote instead of reply directly to another reply.
Is the way you mean like on NAGTY?
The way on NAGTY makes no sense…
I can never get it to be in the right place and stuff
Dang Suc ya broke the page up there huh?
IMdb.com allows viewing threads set as “nested”
But Imdb is bad in that it doesn’t just have one format, it allows you to select the view format you want and it does not default to “nested” so noobs and people who have no clue reply to any old post in the thread and cause loads of cconfusion.
There should be one format only, and this format on help.com is good (now that you can quote others).
Jeff,
Could you code it so that the quoting only quotes the text written by the user being quoted, and not including a previous quote -thus starting a quote pyramid?
Also what commonly happens when you have a quote button next to a thanks button is that the thanks button gets clicked accidently. Can you move them further apart? and can we have an ‘undo’ for the thanks button (if it doesn’t exist already).
Also in my efforts to understand the thanks button I have clicked it on myself a few times, could we have it so you cannot thank yourself?
This is an excellent new feature. Well done, Jeffrey.
Roanbo: Most places put the cap at quoting 3 levels deep, which usually works out pretty well. I’ll see if my brain can figure out a way to do that.
gimli edited this post 2 years, 3 months ago. Read the previous text »
Quoting Others
From the “Feature Request” file, you may now quote users in replies (and posts, if you feel the need)
How to info: http://help.com/faq#sect21
And, to demonstrate…
[quote The Godfather]I’m going to make him and offer he can’t refuse.[/quote]
Click “edit post” to check out the code I used if you’re not sure how it works.
this is bizarre. An announcement about a feature that has become so engrained as a basic tool of this site…i wouldnt be surprised if its the next thing to go.
Rosanbo
cady
Erik
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