Noise from "How to Demoralize Employees: A DIY Guide for Terrible Companies"

FrostCat

@cheong said:

air-coned area

I know what you meant but I briefly thought of air cones. DON'T LEAVE THE CONE!

swayde

@FrostCat said:

air-coned

Whelp, nested quoting is way broken.
also:
air-conned: Someone took our AIR, and gave nothing in return :'(

FrostCat

@swayde said:

Someone took our AIR

Adobe Internet Runtime? Consider yourself lucky!

boomzilla

@swayde said:

Someone took our AIR, and gave nothing in return

http://blog.blinkbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/PEOPLE-AIR.jpg

blakeyrat

Always bugged me that it wasn't actually made from cones. I wonder if the prop department fucked up, or if the screenwriters changed it at the last minute.

abarker

@cheong said:

Much like the effect of banning smoking inside buildings for the smokers.

You mean when the big bad gubmint stepped in for public health reasons?

abarker

@swayde said:

@FrostCat said:
air-coned

Whelp, nested quoting is way broken.

NO_REPRO

FrostCat

Sure, if you do it that way. But the thing I complained about just a few minutes ago didn't work for me when I used the same technique the post I was quoting used, and which also used to work!

abarker

Having seen the issue you complained about in the lounge, the style you were trying to use has never worked, to my knowledge. Nested quoting only works as long as the nested quotes aren't preceded by, well, anything, as illustrated in the examples below:

**Nested Quote 1** - Works because it is the first thing in the parent quote.
**Nested Quote 2** - Doesn't work because there is preceding text in the parent quote

**Nested Quote 3** - Doesn't Work because there is a preceding quote in the parent quote.

I don't think this has ever worked.

FrostCat

Yeah, but I used a greater-than, which Yami used, and it worked for her and I would've sworn it used to work nestedly.

abarker

@FrostCat said:

Yeah, but I used a greater-than, which Yami used, and it worked for her and I would've sworn it used to work nestedly.

Same criteria that I explained above have applied to all forms of quoting, AFAIR.

SirTwist

You broke the first rule of ■■■ ■■■■■■
I lurk too much to be able to follow the link

abarker

@SirTwist said:

1. You broke the first rule of ■■■ ■■■■■■

I laugh at rules.

@SirTwist said:

2. I lurk too much to be able to follow the link

Sucks for you.

da_Doctah

@blakeyrat said:

Always bugged me that it wasn't actually made from cones. I wonder if the prop department fucked up, or if the screenwriters changed it at the last minute.

Or it was a deliberate joke. Like having the idiot main character named Smart.

blakeyrat

Jokes? In Get Smart?

UNPOSSIBLE!

another_sam

@swayde said:

air-conned: Someone took our AIR, and gave nothing in return

con-aired: Somebody made you watch a terrible Nic Cage action movie.

cheong

Yup.

cheong

@another_sam said:

Nic Cage action movie.

Or some terrible Nic Cage action movie got air-ed.

swayde

@abarker said:

NO_REPRO

That quote does not belong to @FrostCat. It was nested below his reply. (Too lazy to fix it by hand on mobile)

cheong

@swayde said:

@abarker said:
NO_REPRO

That quote does not belong to @FrostCat. It was nested below his reply. (Too lazy to fix it by hand on mobile)

Nest.

swayde

@cheong said:

Nest

Que?

cheong

@cheong said:

@swayde said:
@abarker said:
NO_REPRO

That quote does not belong to @FrostCat. It was nested below his reply. (Too lazy to fix it by hand on mobile)

Nest.

3-level nested. Still seems okay.

EDIT: Multi-level nested actually. Not noticed the the expand/collapse button in inner level of nested message.

swayde

Selection:
Result:

@cheong said:

NO_REPROThat quote does not belong to @FrostCat. It was nested below his reply. (Too lazy to fix it by hand on mobile)
Nest.

abarker

Considering select-to
-quote just takes the displayed selected text and wraps it in quote tags, that is expected. It even strips out formatting like italics and bold!

To preserve nesting, you need to use the full quote button on desktop.

NOT_A_BUG, AS_DESIGNED

swayde

@abarker said:

desktop

Guess what's different?

cheong

Oh, I understand now. But you're not fully select the quotes either. (Hint' the "user name" and time is in the quote tag too)

Try click "Reply" and select "Quote whole post"if the button is available in the toolbar of reply textbox.

swayde

@cheong said:

But you're not fully select the quotes either. (Hint' the "user name" and time is in the quote tag too)

Android/chrome only lets me select text. No text to select above @abarkers text. (can't select usernames, dunno why)

Tried quoting the second part of your quote, but I can only get the same text to paste again (above quote).
However : there is no toolbar on mobile.

FrostCat

@abarker said:

NOT_A_BUG, AS_DESIGNED

You seem awfully busy to stand up for Jeff.

abarker

Who said I was standing up for Jeff? Just passing on the responses we've received in the past.

HardwareGeek

@abarker said:

~~NOT_~~A_BUG, AS_DESIGNED

FTFD

dkf

@abarker said:

Just passing on the responses we've received in the past.

E_INSUFFICIENT_IRRELEVANT_MEME_PICTURES <blah

abarker

So I stripped out some noise in the line. ;)

blakeyrat

How about you strip some of the noise out of the thread?

Magus

@another_sam said:

con-aired: Somebody made you watch a terrible Nic Cage action movie.

As opposed to, say, the wonderful masterpiece ones?

FrostCat

@blakeyrat said:

How about you strip some of the noise out of the thread?

The formatting posts probably should've been moved to a different thread than the noise ones.

accalia

but that sounds suspiciously like work

FrostCat

@accalia said:

but that sounds suspiciously like work

Not for me, though.

accalia

nor for me.

i suspect if i ever made TL4 let alone moderator the outcry and gnashing of teeth would make Uncle Ben Kenobi feel a disturbance in the force and have to tell someone about what comes with great power.