[Jonathan]

This has driven me crazy for years on here now.

Traditionally the ^ character is used on message boards to respond to posts before yours. The number of ^s should correspond to the number of posts above you that you are referencing. No one seems to get this part.

^For example, this would be responding to the post directly above mine.

^^This would be responding to the post two above mine.

^^^This would be responding to the post three above mine.

After that it may be best to just use the quote function.

This has been your daily protip.

[chargercrazy]

I always thought the "^" character referred to two posts above yours. Why would you need to use it to refer to the post directly above yours - isn't that what the reply is?

[Jonathan]

How have you been on The Wolf Web for all these years without understanding this? Yes generally you wouldn't use it too much for the post right above yours.

[FamousAmos]

I'll be honest. I didn't know either. But now I do, so thanks for alerting me to this.

[chknwing]

ok so to respond to a post in the next thread I do >^

[Axel]

<^ yep... the Skytower is a waste of space...

EDIT: oops... the Skytower thread doesn't precede this one anymore... that doesn't work too well chknwing

[tarheel1231]

<^ yep... the Skytower is a waste of space...

Please lock this thread.

[Axel]

^ tarheel.... you didn't follow the Protip! you are banished to The off topic, casual chat, random BS thread.

[Edwardo]

Thank you for this! I typically will just respond directly using a name if the context has shifted, of obviously quote if needed, but the use of ^^^ recently has been incredibly confusing when it's hard to determine who the poster is talking to and is out of context to the ratio of ^'s.

[Jonathan]

Yeah that's kind of what prompted it. Someone would reply to a post and use ^^^ and I would look up three posts and get confused because it didn't make any sense.

[RollerBee]

Sometimes is the board is moving too fast for the ^^^ to be effective. I would "^^" and submit post only find I need add more ^^^

[chknwing]

what if a mod deletes a post, will they edit the ^^ in the subsequent posts to match?

[aoriole19]

+++ Thank you Jonathan! I haven't actually noticed too big of a problem on here specifically but on other sites it's worse. People seem to get carried away and use more ^s than they need.

[chargercrazy]

How have you been on The Wolf Web for all these years without understanding this? Yes generally you wouldn't use it too much for the post right above yours.

Which is the reason why I was confused. On T-dub I always thought I saw one carrot for two posts above. I am probably wrong, carry on.

[arby]

Also, sometimes I use the quote function regardless, if I am only replying to a specific point in a long post to try to make it clear that I'm only commenting on that one point.

With that being said, I don't always use any of these properly although I know better so thanks for clarifying that, Jonathan. Hopefully it will make it easier to read some of the threads.