Numbering – automatic adding to each post

[PatParticipant @pat]

Hi David Clark

 

At some time could you try and get the automatic numbering of the posts with in a thread given a number as this would make referring back to earlier comments much easier.

 

Thanks for pushing for the much improved digital publication for MEW.

 

Regards – Pat

[PatParticipant @pat]

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

The best way of referring to an earlier post is to use the “Quote” facility which we

already have.

Type your message, go to message referred to and click quote.

I have done it with this message and it works fine.

regards David

 

 

Posted by Pat on 04/08/2011 10:54:07:

Hi David Clark

 

At some time could you try and get the automatic numbering of the posts with in a thread given a number as this would make referring back to earlier comments much easier.

 

Thanks for pushing for the much improved digital publication for MEW.

 

Regards – Pat

[PatParticipant @pat]

Hi David

 

You have illustrated my point in that you have used up a load of extra lines in the thread. You could have just posted:-

 

In response to post no 1 my response is:- No just use the quotes feature and paste in the appropriate lines

 

The problem comes when there are many pages in the thread and people start to add quotes and then add in their comments without using anything to indicate what is a response against just a few lines of the original post as a quote.

 

Just an observation – Regards – Pat

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Not infrequently people want to refer someone to another thread. Sometimes the whole thread but if it’s a long rambling one it’s better to refer to the specific post or group of posts that contains the information.

 

That would be much easier to do if the posts were numbered.

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