Empty quoting

[Хahar 🤔]

For the most part, the people who are empty quoting that pyramid certainly aren't making me question my previous assessment.

[tmthforu94]

I think it is pretty obnoxious.

[free my dawg]

I do it all the time.

Chill out.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Should come with an automatic 10 death point penalty. Unfortunately, the moderators are too busy bullying Bushie to implement common sense solutions like these that would actually increase the quality of the forum.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

For the most part, the people who are empty quoting that pyramid certainly aren't making me question my previous assessment.

Uh oh, looks like we have a Serious Person here.

[Napoleon]

Empty quoting is trolling, but that isn't necessarily good nor bad. I can think of a few posters whose empty quotes are superior in substance to their "normal" posts.

[Foucaulf]

I remember when I first found this forum and thought to myself: "how the hell are there people in this place with thirty thousand posts?" Empty quotes are a big part of that, and I wish they were clamped down on more given forum hosting's not cheap. Probably impossible to enforce, though.

The OP's second paragraph may be excessive, but looking at the average age of those against - 16.8, I reckon - I would say empty quoting legitimates teenage, low-content opinions.

[minionofmidas]

I remember when I first found this forum and thought to myself: "how the hell are there people in this place with thirty thousand posts?" Empty quotes are a big part of that, and I wish they were clamped down on more given forum hosting's not cheap. Probably impossible to enforce, though.

The OP's second paragraph may be excessive, but looking at the average age of those against - 16.8, I reckon - I would say empty quoting legitimates teenage, low-content opinions.

As viz the pyramid in this thread.

[sentinel]

I do it all the time.

Chill out.

I WANNA PLAY

[Redalgo]

Usually I like to empty quote because my opinion has already been expressed well by one of the other posters and I want to (a.) avoid paraphrasing and wasting other posters' time by giving off the initial appearance of having a fresh opinion to contribute, (b.) avoid putting thought and time into writing a post amounting to "I agree with <insert name here> because <insert reason here>," and (c.) avoid non-participation. On the lattermost point, I already skip past too many of the threads on this forum as it is by not having the time and/or motivation to participate. Staying completely out the conversations I'm interested in because somebody got around to expressing my ideas first would make me a less active member of the community.

If the practice really annoys people though I suppose I could just do more lurking and less posting without it taking away anything of importance from the threads here.

[Smid]

If the practice really annoys people though I suppose I could just do more lurking and less posting without it taking away anything of importance from the threads here.

If I find myself having nothing further to add to what has gone before, and that I would merely be empty quoting, or at most, paraphrasing, as you note, this is the option that I choose.

Of course, I think that post counts are largely irrelevant. I have no idea what mine is, I never look at it. I think that it matters far more what one says, rather than the number of posts they have somehow racked up.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

I stopped doing it years ago because nobody cares enough about my opinion to be interested in my blindly parroting someone else without adding any content. Empty quote pyramids make me cringe.