Quoting

LaC said:
Stop quoting everything, it just wastes space. You only need to quote the message you're replying to when your reply wouldn't be understood without the quote. You NEVER need to quote when you're responding to the last message, because it'll be visible above your post anyway.

Well that's really Danbooru's fault, it should have a better way to quote, like 4chan's >>XXXXXX format.

It's also not evident sometimes that the post date order is older-on-top, mainly because usually the new posts are on top, like on Youtube.

Uh what? Is this from a PM and if so why is it posted here?

Anyway, Danbooru used to have a 4chan-esque replay/'quote' format at some point in its history, but it was later on switched to the current version, which, IMO is infinately more sensible and convinient from a usability standpoint. Well, as long as users aren't being idiots and use some common sense when quoting things, at least.

mainly because usually the new posts are on top

Or, maybe you need to broaden your horizons beyond Youtube comments and realize that just isn't the case -_-.

Oldest-first is an age-old tradition, since it modifies the page least over time, among other reasons. Most forums and such follow this order. Youtube puts the newest comments first because there's usually a fucking ton of them, and they want the new ones to be responded to as well, which makes sense.

Also, usually the comments on youtube are independent from each other, and so are treated much like threads in a normal forum. - they even have a 2-tier hierarchical system of comments on each video, where each comment is parentless or has a "thread" that it belongs to. Indeed, in most forums, in the forum view, you'll see the newest threads at the top, but in each thread the oldest posts will be at the top.

Danbooru used to have the >> quoting system a long time ago (you can see examples of it from time to time in some of the older comments on the site), but for some reason they were discarded. Since comments are not paginated on danbooru, I think that system made a lot of sense (linking such references to anchors on the page increases readability, imo). Not sure when or why it was removed.

I never thought I would see the day when people would recommend the 2ch quoting system.

Technically, isn't it still possible? You just copy the link, and take the number like so:

>> forum #7370
You are wrong!

See? Nothin' to it.

I think we're talking about comments on posts here, not the forum.

Oh, right. Carry on! :D

:) I don't mean we should not quote what we're referring to, but when people are capable of commenting anonymously, it's sometimes nice to have something like a ">>2さん"-type reference system. Even when quoting a post, if a reference to which post the text was actually quoted from was included in the body of the post, it'd be easier to go back and see what that post was in response to, etc. etc.

Many forum software packages have this kind of feature, in the form of the syntax [ quote=123456]text[/quote], where the "Someone said:" is inserted automatically based on the post ID, and is clickable.

I would miss the ability to quote custom segments of someone's post, so I surely hope 2chan-styled quoting is not brought back.

Why would that ability disappear?