dealtn wrote:But one click on " <type answer> and one click on "submit" is much more likely for me to bother with than
Hit the quote button as usual.
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don't you think?
Agreed it "isn't especially difficult..." but it's also not far from "I can't be ar$ed"
This is IMHO quite a significant issue with using TLF (especially as the technique dealtn describes needs a bit more fiddling around if one is to help readers find where the quote comes from, as I've done in this post). It's significant because quite often a reply that is off-topic for its thread would be fine if posted in a new thread, on the same board or a different one if also off-topic for its board - but people don't do it and so reports are liable to be made for being off-topic, increasing moderator workload. The reasons why people don't do it almost certainly vary, but I suspect it's often for the reason dealtn indicates, i.e. that replying in a new thread is decidedly fiddly and tedious compared with replying in the same thread!
So I'm posting this to ask people (especially stooz) whether there's anything that can be done technically with phpBB to make the process of replying in a new thread simpler and easier. My guess is that the answer is "Yes, but only by developing a new phpBB extension" :-( - but it seems worth asking to make certain the question has been considered.
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