Damn. I used the nested quotes function at least twice today, and thanked SDMB for making it easy, and I’m pretty sure I didn’t make any mis-attributions. Now I’ll have to revert to hand coding. Damn.
It’s harder, but if you click the little “>” sign next to the name in the quote box it’ll take you back to that quoted post. Sometimes you have to do it a few times to see where the quotes started, but it’s easier then searching for it.
Any chance of getting a back-track button on quotes - so you don’t have to search for the context of what was quoted? More times that not you don’t need it, but it would come in handy and not create the clutter of nested quotes. Just a thought.
I quite liked them, and i think i always managed to edit them properly.
I was amazed, though, at how many people seemed completely incapable of working them out, making post after post with misattributions or with stray tags left all over the place.
And others, perhaps fearing to do it wrong, simply refused to edit their quotes down to manageable and reasonable size, leaving massive long nested quotes in places where they were completely unnecessary.
Well this was inevitable I guess. The idea itself isn’t bad but too many struggled with it, and I think it probably required more post editing than before.