# Nested quotes have been discontinued **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 18, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502 "2010-10-18T01:12:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/21 "2010-10-18T11:29:35Z")
There some aspects I didn’t like, but there were some I did. Unfortunately, they were both the same aspects. I won’t miss them, but I think they had a useful purpose most of the time. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/22 "2010-10-18T11:57:08Z")
If you want to quote both what person A said and what person B said in response, you can use the “+” quote function to pick both of them. You can even choose what order you put multiple quotes in by what order you click the "+"es. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/23 "2010-10-18T12:11:36Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > If you want to quote both what person A said and what person B said in response, you can use the “+” quote function to pick both of them. You can even choose what order you put multiple quotes in by what order you click the "+"es. Huh? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/24 "2010-10-18T12:15:38Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > If you want to quote both what person A said and what person B said in response, you can use the “+” quote function to pick both of them. You can even choose what order you put multiple quotes in by what order you click the "+"es. > [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > Huh? The little box to the right of the quote box with a close quotes and a plus – if you click on that box in each of the quotes you want to respond to, in the order you want to respond to them in, then hit “post reply,” you’ll get a box with each of the quotes you have chosen in it. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/25 "2010-10-18T12:36:43Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > The little box to the right of the quote box with a close quotes and a plus – if you click on that box in each of the quotes you want to respond to, in the order you want to respond to them in, then hit “post reply,” you’ll get a box with each of the quotes you have chosen in it. I never knew what that was for. It didn’t seem to do anything. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/26 "2010-10-18T12:38:50Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > 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. Yeah, really. What with there being an “edit window” it should not have been that hard to fix mistakes, but I guess people were focused on using it to correct errors in their reply as opposed to in their quote. I liked the feature! ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/27 "2010-10-18T13:06:37Z")
> [@xash](#): > > You misspelled “started”. I don’t even understand where ‘started’ would have fit into that sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/28 "2010-10-18T13:41:15Z")
> [@chrisk](#): > > I don’t even understand where ‘started’ would have fit into that sentence. **Giraffe** was the one who convinced the powers that be to implement the nested quote feature in the first place, so “…I started those damn things” would be a valid quote for him. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/29 "2010-10-18T14:04:36Z")
That absolutely sucks. A post that quotes outside material doesn’t have the blue button. A post that broke a quote up into sections doesn’t have a blue button. Merging a nested quote and another posters response doesn’t have a blue button. Whiny incompetents have ruled the day. Sad day for an ostensibly sophisticated board. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/30 "2010-10-18T14:08:12Z")
> [@chrisk](#): > > I don’t even understand where ‘started’ would have fit into that sentence. > > > [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > > > **Giraffe** was the one who convinced the powers that be to implement the nested quote feature in the first place, so “…I started those damn things” would be a valid quote for him. Meant to hit preview and the phone rang. Anyways, hand nesting quotes keeps the blue button. Use the Plus sign next to the quote button to pick everything you want to quote, each one will show up in the reply box with the blue button (the number next to the user’s name), then nest the quotes by hand. Also, broken up quotes won’t contain the blue button, but the first one should, if you want, you could add it in by hand by bringing the ID number down to each section. ---
**Author:** ![TheFifthYear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@TheFifthYear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFifthYear)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/31 "2010-10-18T14:23:06Z")
Good move. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/32 "2010-10-18T14:26:28Z")
So if they’re gone, why are they still here in the thread? Or is it that we can manually put them in but they won’t automatically show up if we hit quote? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/33 "2010-10-18T14:33:09Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > So if they’re gone, why are they still here in the thread? Or is it that we can manually put them in but they won’t automatically show up if we hit quote? You can still do it by hand. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/34 "2010-10-18T14:38:48Z")
Cool, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/35 "2010-10-18T14:45:16Z")
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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/36 "2010-10-18T14:58:39Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I never knew what that was for. It didn’t seem to do anything. :smack: I was using it all the time before nested quotes - you just click on each post you want to show up in your response (the button turns red), then click on the quote button to the left of it to make them all show up in a reply box, where you can add in your responses to the quotes you picked up along the way. I think that worked perfectly fine, and didn’t require me to go delete a lot of irrelevant stuff. I will agree that incompetents ruled the day (I never found deleting quotes to be hard, but oh boy, didn’t a whole lot of other people), but sometimes you just have to acknowledge reality. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/37 "2010-10-18T16:08:42Z")
I’m happy they’re gone, they caused me to do a lot of extra editing, which was annoying. The people that like the nested quote look can still do it manually, by using the multi-quote button (mentioned by twickster) and then a copy / paste to have the two quotes be nested instead of consecutive. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/38 "2010-10-18T16:28:52Z")
The terrorists have won. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/39 "2010-10-18T16:29:48Z")
it did seem that when people altered the nested quote it was too often done giving incorrect results. once you learn the multi-quote feature it looks better and reads better even though it might be more work. i undid more nested quotes and rearranged than i left because it read better without. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/40 "2010-10-18T16:32:54Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > it did seem that when people altered the nested quote it was too often done giving incorrect results. There’s a weird (though completely logical) quirk where if you remove one of the \ tags (very easy to do by accident while trying to unnest) it would attribute the post to the wrong person. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502.md?page=3)