Quick Reply Box?

[Talking Poker]

Would you guys like to have a "Quick Reply" box added to the bottom of every thread?

For those that don't know, this is a box at the bottom of every page where you can type in your reply and press submit - no need to press the "Post Reply" button first.

The only real disadvantage of using this is that you wont have any of the advanced posting features available to you, including text formatting, smilies, uploading attachments, etc. The normal "Post Reply" method will still be available to you though, so you can still use that if you prefer.

[MAYHEM45]

do it.

[Robbie Robb]

word

[Talking Poker]

Pretty close vote so far. 6-4 in favor of adding it.

More votes, please.

[PShabi]

In my experience, if Mayhem says to "do it," you damn well better listen.

[PShabi]

What's the point of a "quick reply box" if you have to click an icon to access it? You should just be able to click mouse in textbox, type, and post.

[Talking Poker]

When pshabi talks, people listen. So I decided to temporarily enable to Quick Reply box to see how it goes.

Here's the thing though.... because this forum is set to support , I have to set the Quick Reply box like it is now, where you are forced to pick a post that you are replying too. Otherwise, those views would become nonsensical.

I use the Linear Mode (Oldest First) myself, but everyone here has the option (under your ) to view the forum the other ways.

So...... I guess I'm wondering if the Quick Reply Box is still worth adding, with this added bit of annoyance. I can go either way. I doubt I'll use it much.

[Talking Poker]

Agreed. See above post.

[Talking Poker]

One thing I definitely DO like is that I can click on the little "close" arrows in the Quick Reply box and make it go away completely.

I wonder how many people use the Threaded and Hybrid display modes.

[eejit101]

i dont even know what that means, but this makes it easier to look as the last posts while replying

[Talking Poker]

Are you drunk?

[eejit101]

no, i was smoking ( a cigarette ) and talking on the phone i believe while typing that.

EDIT - Edited the last post to make it make sense

[bunny]

I'd like to change my vote to no, it's useless and not really needed. I thought quick reply would be like Shabi suggested, but the way this is set up...looks the same like the old way (Quote button) of posting.

No need to have 2 of the same thing on here, will just confuse people if anything.

[X-Longshot-X]

I think its a good idea, that way if u wanna chime in with you two cents or say something like gg sarcasm it will be quicker....no need to press post reply watch it load, type reply press submit, watch it load....its quicker this way

[Talking Poker]

That is the biggest advantage. For people with slow connections, especially (or the the people who have been getting weird connection errors), this will require less page loading.

To anyone who doesn't like it, do what I did and just click on the ^^ on the right side of the Reply Box and *poof* it's gone.

[bunny]

I did, however notice that it's quicker, since I was still having problems with the posts not loading properly.

Amazing. No loading error messages like I usually get.

[Talking Poker]

Well, yeah.... cause there's nothing to load.