Quote the last post

[Axel Wers]

There shouldn't be quote button in last post. Quote last post in topic uselessness. But lot of user use that. Why should post be copied twice? If all posts would be quoted, whole database would be almost two times bigger.

[Biker.GA]

Don't see what the issue is. If the last post is a long one, and I want to quote a portion of it, I'll use the "Reply" button and then edit the quote. If users are using the "Add Reply" button all the time, rather than using the quick reply by clicking on the text box, that's a user education issue. The existing system is just fine.

[Michael]

If it's a busy topic, with lots of posts coming quickly, and you don't quote the post you want to be replying to, it might get confusing.

[Hunting insects...]

...that's a user education issue.

Yah... I've been "educating" them for years and to little effect. A substantial electric shock every time someone does this would maybe be more effective. :hyper:

It is an issue that could be largely solved by renaming the "Reply" button to "Quote". Thus there would be "Quote" and "MultiQuote" buttons for each post.

[Axel Wers]

If the last post is a long one, and I want to quote a portion of it, I'll use the "Reply" button and then edit the quote.

You're right, but they are too lazy to edit it :-/

that's a user education issue.

Unfortunately.

If it's a busy topic, with lots of posts coming quickly, and you don't quote the post you want to be replying to, it might get confusing.

In this case it's usefull, yes.

Yah... I've been "educating" them for years and to little effect.

The same here.

It is an issue that could be largely solved by renaming the "Reply" button to "Quote". Thus there would be "Quote" and "MultiQuote" buttons for each post.

I made it, but it has very little effect :(

[3DKiwi]

I added a few buttons and renamed things like attached. I hardly have any quoted replies. Without doing this most members were using Quote reply as their standard means of replying.

3DKiwi

[blair]

The default buttons should be like that, "add reply", "quote reply". :thumbsup:

Care to save me some work and share your changes? topicView Template I'm sure...

[3DKiwi]

You can add a reply button by editing the topic view template.


Find:

<li><a href="{parse url="module=post&amp;section=post&amp;do=reply_post&amp;f={$this->request['f']}&amp;t={$this->request['t']}&amp;qpid={$post['post']['pid']}" base="publicWithApp"}" title="{$this->lang->words['tt_reply_to_post']}">{parse replacement="reply_post_icon"} {$this->lang->words['post_reply']}</a></li>

Add below

<li><a href='{$displayData['reply_button']['url']}' title='{$this->lang->words['topic_add_reply']}' accesskey='r'>{parse replacement="{$displayData['reply_button']['image']}_icon"} {$this->lang->words['topic_add_reply']}</a></li>

Hope this helps. I edited the language file to make the Quote reply button actually say Quote reply.

3DKiwi

[blair]

Awesome thanks! You saved me at least a good half hour. :)

[Yamamura]

Is there some kind of plugin for this? 🤔

On 8/4/2010 at 5:14 PM, Axel Wers said:

There shouldn't be quote button in last post. Quote last post in topic uselessness.

[SeNioR-]

You can hide the "Quote" button for all posts using CSS:

.cPost li[data-ipsquote-editor="topic_comment"]{display:none;}

 

[Yamamura]

23 hours ago, SeNioR- said:

You can hide the "Quote" button for all posts using CSS:

.cPost li[data-ipsquote-editor="topic_comment"]{display:none;}

 

I don't need to hide the button in all posts. I am using this code to hide the quote button in the last post on the page:

article:last-of-type li[data-ipsquote-editor="topic_comment"] {
  display: none;
}

This is not a bad solution, but I want to hide the button in the last post of the topic.