Quote tool

College Confidential Community
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No other forum I frequent suffers severely from such problem, and I am not aware of anything special about this one that would make the issue any more severe here than on all these other forums that utilize this feature successfully. Where it is available I find it a great convenience in posting, and understanding who is being quoted by others. I imagine most other posters who have this feature available feel the same way about it, I’ve certainly seen no movement to get rid of the feature where it is used. It is a routinely available, and uncontroversial, feature these days, at least where I go on the 'net.

FWIW

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This forum has an unusually large number of younger and newbie users, and that is why I think management’s judgment on not including a quote tool is correct. I have seen one site where that was very badly abused until that site’s terms of service had to be edited to ban misuse of the quote tool.

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My own “younger users” are more facile with internet use and posting in all respects than I am, but if in fact there have been a number of issues elsewhere with young users abusing this feature then I suppose that’s a valid concern.