Deactivate Quick Reply?

[Bob La Londe]

Did I say it was a stupid premise? Did I, at any point, tell you that you wanting to disable quick reply was a bad thing? No, I did not. Please don't put words in my mouth.

I NEVER SAID OR IMPLIED YOU SAID THAT.  Don't put words in my mouth. 

Now I am sure because I took the time explain that there are those who will attack my premise or rationalize that its a stupid premise.  If you are one of those people your feedback on that is irrelevant.

At no point did I say anybody said anything in that regard.  In fact I chose not to quote or name anybody in that post for the reason that somebody might falsely assume I was directly addressing them even though it was clearly worded in a manner that talks about future action by an indeterminate person or group of people. 

[Bob La Londe]

See, I told you people would argue about anything. 

[Arantor]

My statement in #33 about there being a large number of bots viewing things is based on the fact that at any given time there will be about 200 bots visiting this site, at all hours of the day and night, reading every single topic.

Your point in #35 is clearly aimed at trying to suggest that I am trivialising your concerns. I'm not. I'm just trying to keep some perspective.

I get it, this is important to you. But it's not as important to *everyone* as it is to you. The developers who came before me, those who were alongside me, those who came after me, we were building this for a much larger audience.

The fact that you have a legitimate concern is not being trivialised. I'm merely trying to put it in perspective against everything else. 1600 views on a topic does not indicate 1600 people had the same question, nor does it indicate 1600 people even looked at it.

That means it's not the concern of 1600 people, but much more likely it's the concern of maybe 20 people who actually read the topic.

How I arrive at that figure: I reckoned at a guess that 90% of the views were bots. That's likely a low figure, but let's run with it, that means 160 views from actual people.

Here we are, 42 posts in, of which several are from you and me, which each means we must have viewed the topic several times to get to that point.

I realise this is important to you. I'm merely asking you to consider the possibility that while important to you, this is not as important to the rest of the community based on the likelihood of how many people *probably* actually viewed this topic. We'll never know the details to be sure, but everything I've seen of 20+ years of running internet sites would suggest this to be the case.

And yes, I realise you just want it fixed. I'm trying to give an indication of what that might realistically look like - because contrary to what you might think, I'd like to help you. I just don't want to hear about it for the next 10 years if I do. I know I am not alone in sharing this concern.

[Illori]

You can always ask for a mod to be developed.

[Arantor]

I hope doing this is not a mistake.

@Sir Osis of Liver hope this helps you as well.

Don't ask me to publish it on the mod site. I'm not in that good a mood.

[FrizzleFried]

I'll cop to downloading it...

...though I really have no idea why. 

[Bob La Londe]

I'll cop to downloading it...

...though I really have no idea why. 

LOL

[Bob La Londe]

I hope doing this is not a mistake.

@Sir Osis of Liver hope this helps you as well.

Don't ask me to publish it on the mod site. I'm not in that good a mood.

Seems to work.  Thank you. 

[Kindred]

I will note that the way it is now implemented in 2.1 is something that people asked for, when we started on 2.1

The fact that you few people now ask for exactly the opposite is merely amusing - especially because the logic you used to justify wanting the toggle is, quite literally, the exact logic people argued to leave the quick reply always on

[Arantor]

the exact logic people argued to leave the quick reply always on

RIGHT?

Swear to god I can't win

[Antechinus]

You can't please all of the people all of the time. Whatever you do, someone is going to grumble.