we need a new rule.

[Cloud No.9]

yes we do. people who post just quotes of what other people say. not with their own comment or anything just the quote andnothing else. i know it's supposed to show agreement. but especially in eotw and eoeo it is really quite annoying and doesn't add anything. spam could have been in that space for all the good that it does as it really shouldn't be there. i'm all for agreeing but it would be nice if people could use their won words instead of making people read the same post twice while adding nothing.

[Meat Puppet]

yes we do. people who post just quotes of what other people say. not with their own comment or anything just the quote andnothing else. i know it's supposed to show agreement. but especially in eotw and eoeo it is really quite annoying and doesn't add anything. spam could have been in that space for all the good that it does as it really shouldn't be there. i'm all for agreeing but it would be nice if people could use their won words instead of making people read the same post twice while adding nothing.

[Cruise Control]

I agree with Cloud No. 9

[Loony BoB]

I actually don't have any objections to quoting without adding anything being considered spam in EoTW and EoEO, but at the same time I don't really post in those forums so I don't know if it's that bad or not.

[Madonna]

I thought that would have fallen under the Use Your Smurfing Brain Rule. I agree that simply quoting another person is not adding to a serious discussion in the more serious fora of this board. I agree and disagree all the time when I read people's posts, but unless I have an argument or a point to make, I don't add another post, and certainly don't resort to quoting and nothing else.

[Loony BoB]

Wait a minute, guys. We're agreeing with Cloud No. 9 here. Surely, this must be some kind of cunningly disguised trap...

[Madonna]

I consider this the only thread he has created that is worthwhile.

[Meat Puppet]

I do it because we are all created equal.

[Strider]

If something has been said that can't be said any better, what's the harm in quoting them for agreement? Don't try and compare that with spam. Come on now.

[Old Manus]

Imitation is the most bannable form of flattery.

[Light Mage]

I wholeheartedly agree.

No really I do.

Did you see what I did here?

[Hawkeye]

I don't see any problem in it. The only reason I mainly quote over people and not write anything else is solely because that person said what I said, like the breakfest thread, RSL said he didn't eat breakfest, that was exactly what I was going to do, and ot of laziness, I just quoted him and that was my post. Whats the harm? If its something rediculous, then yeah, we may have a problem

[Cloud No.9]

oi! i create lots of worthwhile threads. i do.

and this is a trap. it's already trapped light mage and meat puppet.

[Light Mage]

Yeah... but I lied. I just wrapped "[quote=Light Mage]" tags around my own posting.

[Agent Proto]

Light Mage quoted himself.

Um... yeah.

I don't really see anything wrong with quotes only posts, but I find it pretty pointless if someone quoted the entire post that's longer than a paragraph.