Rankk.org Topic - Quote or Reply - need your feedback

• Quote or Reply - need your feedback

  Posted by Pha. Sphinx 6553 from on 2007-11-18 16:56:25

  Rather trivial, but we need your feedback.

  On Rankk's forum, when you want to respond to a sub-message, you click on Quote. When you do that, you're responding to that specific message, but the message isn't quoted.

  I feel using Reply is more intuitive, because it's what it's doing - you're replying to the message and not quoting it, because no message is quoted. What I see is the common practice in forums is having two buttons - one Quote and one Reply. When you click on Quote, the message you're responding to is quoted in the textarea. When you click on Reply, you're still responding to the message, only that the message is not quoted.

  Any thoughts?

  Last edited on 2007-11-19 09:55:05 by Pha. Sphinx

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• Quote or Reply - need your feedback

  Posted by Scr. Bio 605 from on 2007-11-18 18:21:06 Reply
  I think there is a need to differentiate between 2 forms of reply.
  
  Namely the "Quote" form(currently within a message) and the "Reply" form(currently beside the [back]).
  
  In a linear kind of forum, like phpBB, there is a need to really quote the message that you are responding to, especially when it is in the first few posts, otherwise, readers will have a hard time trying to figure out what tou are trying to say.
  
  In our case though the message that you are responding to is not quoted(since your response will appear as a threaded reply), the "Quote" word let the user intuitively realise that by clicking "Quote" his response will be referenced to the message. "Quote" in our case merely means to cite the message.
  
  If the "Quote" button is change to "Reply"(like Sphinx sugessted), there will be 2 "Reply" buttons. One used for referencing a message, the other used for replying to the main thread. This will cause confusion to the user.
  
  "Quote" button should stay as "Quote" button, imply to cite the message.
  
  Any thoughts? btw your votes counts
  

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• Quote or Reply - need your feedback

  Posted by Geb. quangntenemy 1252 from on 2007-11-19 09:40:19 Reply
  Yes, I think it should be reply. Adding a new quote feature will make things clearer, but not really necessary.

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• Quote or Reply - need your feedback

  Posted by Pha. Sphinx 6553 from on 2007-11-22 12:42:12 Reply
  We need another person's point of view. Any kind soul out there? :P

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