Empty quoting on forums: Do you find it annoying?

Inside info...the dons (I used to be one) will be banning members permanently if they quote pointlessly from now on...

 
Ken said:
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" Empty Quoting " is perfectly alright, as said above its just a way of agreeing with other people :)
 
Angilion said:
I think it's because the policy-makers want people to use English in the OcUK forums.
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They would only end up with a handful of people posting, don't you think?

What's wrong with an initialisation anyway? You just used "OcUK" instead of "Overclockers UK" - In what way, pray tell is my usage of "Q.F.T." in place of "Quoted For Truth" not English?

It's no more breaking the rules of grammar than your contraction apostrophe in "it's".

HTH!
 
Heofz said:
Personally I find it irritating and it annoys me when I see people do it. On another forums I frequent, its a suspend/bannable offence and I think that's a marvelous idea. It's just a waste of space and pads out threads unnecessarily.

If you don't know what I'm referring to, here's an example...
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say what? :D
 
malc30 said:
Personally i like knowing that other members feel/think/agree with what i say. There is also the confirmation of advice by seeing numerous Agree type posts on a question asked. If 3 people on here that i know Quote/Agree on something i am happy to listen/take that advice/learn more about the subject etc.
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Mr^B said:
They would only end up with a handful of people posting, don't you think?

What's wrong with an initialisation anyway? You just used "OcUK" instead of "Overclockers UK" - In what way, pray tell is my usage of "Q.F.T." in place of "Quoted For Truth" not English?

It's no more breaking the rules of grammar than your contraction apostrophe in "it's".

HTH!
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It was banned yonks ago after a spate of threads where people did nothing but quote for truth.

As for empty quotes, I don't really mind but I'd prefer to see a contribution rather than just a lazy empty quote. Sometimes there's nothing more to be said though, so empty quotes are fine in that situation.
 
xyphic said:
It was banned yonks ago after a spate of threads where people did nothing but quote for truth.
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Seems fair to me, I only ever use it in a post-modern ironic way anyway, hence after 6 years of posting here, I only just found that out.

:)
 
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