Right you are. There's a certainly a common-sense, subjective balance here.

Once one is burned by, say, [click + scroll + scroll + scroll], scanning past the whole darn repeated thread to get to the single new piece, often to see just "Thanks Jim!", well, how low is that? It's just inconsiderate stupid lazyness by the author.

In cases like this I'd love to click "Thumbs Down" -- nothing personal -- and so potentially dozens of other busy developers will be better served and not waste the click or the time, which admitedly adds up quickly.

**--** Steve

>Steve,
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>I was going to SNIP a bunch but decided it was better left in.
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>When I first started using UT I recall you railing on very frequently about the 'auto-quote' feature and how it left a bunch of crap in there for no good reason when the thread environment' was specifically designed to obviate such a need.
>Now here, a little into your example, you complain about too much clicking (which I assume includes mousing). Wouldn't the absence of quotes make for much more mousing/clicking?