Grammar of Quote Attributes

In the BB code, we write e.g. [quote="Bill Bloggs"] which comes out as Bill Bloggs has written:

Most of the time that works but yesterday I tried to quote myself simply as [quote="I"] which came out as an ungrammatical I has written:.

And then there are plurals ... [quote="Artists"] ---> Artists has written: which should be Artists have written:

Instead of "has written", if it said "wrote" both the above would be grammatically i.e. I wrote: or Hurter and Driffield wrote:.

Additionally, the simple "wrote" is correct for Company names like "Hurter and Driffield" because Companies are normally referred to as single entities

Another whine:

To avoid the stupid-looking "I has written:", I changed the BB code to just [quote] ... it came out with "Quoted Message:" even though I was not quoting a whole message, only part of one.

It should just say "Quote:"

Thanks, I didn't know that one! So, for example:

 > [b]I said above:[/b]
I didn't know that one!

i.e.

I said above:
I didn't know that one!

Now you know I couldn't do that, Arvo ...😉

I see.

Following Arvo's suggestion, I can cope by using his work-around, so my request is hereby withdrawn ...

... testing testing

person 1 wrote:
blah blah

Danno didn't write:
anything sensible

person 2 thought:
hmmm ,,,

end testing

Any sneak peaks?

May I just ask, is anybody working on threaded view?

Threaded view works out nicely when threads are short, a la DPR's 150 post limit, but IME, it is unmanageable for long threads; there is just no way you can see the connection between parent/child posts in such a view when they get separated. The now-deleted photography.on.the.net had unlimited threads (in fact, mods often combined threads to make even bigger ones) and also threaded view when I first joined it, but for large threads it was unreadable with parents and children so far away from each other that there was no visible connection. Eventually, the forum dropped threaded view altogether.

What I think may be more immediately useful is code that makes a page where all the replies to your own posts are listed along with your own posts, in either flat or threaded view. I generally long for threading when I don't have time to read it all, but want to read what is most relevant to me, now. If I start reading a thread after it is already very active, after not checking in for a few days, and I post something, I don't want to wait until I've read almost the whole thread before finding out that I made a mistake that was corrected by multiple people, or posts were building based at the end on a misunderstanding of my own.

Thanks.

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