But, more often, they create extra work by including a quote that I don’t want/
But that was before the better way if doing things was introduced. Being able to pick the posters I want to quote is better than having the quote forced on me.
But it is. It creates more unnecessary quoting by default.
Only bad people like nested quotes.
OK, in the original thread where someone we won’t name (punch) suggested this, I weighed in as favoring it. Now that we’ve been using them for a while, I’ve decided that I hate nested quotes. It was easier to make them myself, when I needed them (punch), than it is to get rid of them (punch) when they are not useful. Plus, of course, too many people are editing them incorrectly, so, like Oakminster said, apparently attributing the quote to the wrong person. Please, can we go back to the “no nested quotes” we had before someone (punch) suggested them? (punch again) BTW, I hate long necked mammals, now (punch, punch). (I have your cat, and I’m going to punch it to death…)
No, they need to be punched, and so does a certain long-necked mammal. (punch, punch)
Except that you don’t have to use multi-quotes now if you don’t want to. On the other hand, every time I reply to a post that has a quote in it, I have to work to remove the nested quote, even though I never chose that option.
If there was a way to make it a choice when replying, I wouldn’t be arguing against it. I’m arguing against it because it’s forced upon me.
These days half the time I’m posting from a mobile device on which it is relatively easy to delete unwanted material but practically impossible to constucr multinested quotes from scratch.
Can we start the complaint thread retroactively?
(punch, punch!)
We can punch his head from the top of the pyramid you made!
Or at least look at what came out the end… and then use their *five-minute *window to fix it. I’ve done that a time or two.
Exactly. The best option would be if we allowed users to individually select whether posts they quote contain a layer of nesting or not (e.g., in our settings page). I doubt that functionality exists, though.
Too bad. Post from a real computer instead of causing everyone else massive additional hassle to make your own life easier.
I’d say it’s more of a ziggurat.
Same to you, bub.
“Real computer”? This is the future. All websites are going to be redesigned to take into account the preferences of mobile device users.
I’m curious which way people would lean if they could enable or disable nested quoting for themselves, so I made a poll. Note that it’s public.
Personally, I’d disable nested quoting for myself. The times when I have to strip out the quotes vastly outnumber the times when I leave them in, and I have absolutely no problem manually creating the quotes when I find them necessary (i.e., when I think someone reading the thread won’t remember what was said two posts back because the post I’m directly replying to is *so *incredibly vague).
Sure. Please get in touch with Dr. Emmet Brown, Hill Valley, California.
Rhythmdvl said:
EXACTLY MY POINT! There is no reason why quotes are required. Even here, I could have just made a reference to post 48. If someone doesn’t know how to code to add a quote, they will work around it or learn how. But if they don’t know how to code, they figure they don’t need to - they’ve got a handy quote button that will do all the work, and then just add whatever they want to say. But that just means reiterating entire posts, which is almost always ridiculous.
Far better the person knows that he doesn’t know how to code so doesn’t try than to know he doesn’t know how to code but doesn’t care because he has a button.
And that happens even without nested quotes.
Look, I’ve been manually quoting things for forever anyway. I’ve only recently started using the multiquote feature, but still do extensive code changing because I HATE that the default quote format when attributing the quote through the board feature is in italics. For me, there’s going to be coding whether there’s a nested quote or not. But I don’t find the arguments that nested quotes are better to be convincing.
Irishman, just curious, how did you get that quote to be in normal type rather than italics? Is it just the way it works when you manually code a quote?
If all you do is <quote></quote> (with square brackets), it puts the stuff inside in normal type. If you do <quote=Richard Pearse;12846005></quote>, which is the default when you quote someone, it italicizes.
Right. I often do quotes like that but had never noticed the change in formatting.
Yeah, the default italics are annoying, but IMO it’s worth it for the breadcrumb links.