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Good luck with that while you still have a thread in CA "Hamas strike on Israel" after all that has happened and multiple suggestions to change it.

Jeez never knew that .

Have been trying to add in using my keyboard .

Multiquote of posts is absent now without a lot of wheeling and dealing .

Quoted posts end up bunched together at the top which means if more than one subject / poster can get very confusing .

I don't know how you missed all the threads that wouldn't move on / unbork with the blank pages going back maybe 8 to 19 pages ...the threads that bounce like a jack in the box when you click in and refresh with the elastic band pulling you back to one particular post on the page constantly , sometimes back 3 or pages at one point ...

And many many more fun episodes 😁

First quote to show you can quote different people by adding text before hitting the quote another time!

This post created on mobile!

@Goldengirl

That is an issue alright and it probably makes forums look stale to more casual visitors, with the same threads there forever - even if they're actually pretty active!

The whole thing of trying to corral discussion into certain places and threads never really sat well with me. A certain Admin was notorious for it - especially when it came to feedback, or wider issues, or his (as I referred to it), cumbersome and unnecessary HR-style complaints process (it's only a bloody discussion forum FFS) - and really all it does is stifle the very thing this site can't survive without.. Discussion and engagement!

So what if there's 2/3 threads on a topic discussing different angles? They will naturally ebb and flow and those that people aren't interested in will fade to the next page quickly enough.

But that comes back to my often made point that there should be very little attempts to control these discussions - outside of things like illegality, blatant trolling (and everyone knows what that is and when it's happening so no need for ambiguity), or abusive behavior, most threads generally self moderate anyway.

Even the more "controversial" ones are generally OK and would be even better if people (on all "sides") would just stop responding to those who wind them up. Stop taking the bait!

Every effort should be made to encourage participation by mods, admins, and the site owners, not limiting it with unwelcoming warnings at the top of a thread, complaining about where something is posted etc.

Quote by @Frasier {15-08-2025 09:49PM}: - From memory a big part of the problem that caused the drop off was the length of the downtime. I was never a prolific poster however I'd say people who had been posting from their late teens and were then on the hop of forty had a break and just didn't take back up the habit.

Just demonstrating how to achieve it!

And below is how I did it!

@Flinty997 @New Home

Not by Boards system, and you could use an external third party scraping tool to check profile comments, but that maybe against TOS of the site?

@New Home Aware of that and unfortunately vanilla doesn't have Rich Text Editor or Markdown available on here to be able to use '<blockquote>……</blockquote>'