# Nested quotes have been discontinued

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502>\
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**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:** 10\
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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/141 "2010-12-04T18:03:59Z")

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> [@Inner\_Stickler](#):
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> They can. It’s just a fuckton more work than 5 seconds with the backspace key.

My point is, saving you one fuckton of work imposes 100 fucktons of backspacing on the rest of us.

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**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/142 "2010-12-04T19:06:32Z")

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> [@Inner\_Stickler](#):
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> They can. It’s just a fuckton more work than 5 seconds with the backspace key.

Stop saying this, as it’s clearly not true. It’s far less work (and much easier) to hit the MultiQuote button than it is to delete unwanted nested quotes.

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**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/143 "2010-12-04T19:16:56Z")

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For you maybe. My quoting experience was much easier with nested quotes. I was only remarking on the fact that the reason nested quotes aren’t coming back is because they are too advanced a concept for the general populace of the messageboard, a fact I find deliciously funny in view of the messageboard’s opinion of itself regarding general mental acuity.

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**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/144 "2010-12-04T20:02:29Z")

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> [@Rhythmdvl](#):
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> You just posted seven steps to build a quote. Which is easier? That or
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> 1. Select unwanted text
> 2. Hit delete.
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> Get it? It’s not Rocket Vivisection. It’s much less time consuming and much less a pain in the ass.
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> And continuing the “more than 50 posts apart” line is moving beyond disingenuous. Again, posts don’t have to be more than 50 apart to be on separate pages. Posts 49 and 50 will be on separate pages.
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> And I’m glad that you were able to do what takes two steps in seven. I’m glad you didn’t need to use notepad. That, though, is intentional obtuseness. Notepad (or clipboard, or whatever) comes into play when someone puts off-board material in quotes.
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> Again, seven (plus) steps versus two.

7_n \< 2_(n_10)  
n=number of posts needing editing to create nested quotes. (n_10) is the number of posts needing to delete unwanted nested quotes. OK, I pulled the 10X factor out of my ass, but I think I’m being conservative.

But that 7 step process ignores using the multi-post button and then selecting a dragging the quoted material you want to nest. Pretty trivial.

Besides, including extra posts when you hit the quote button on a single post is just poor design. Being able to pick and choose which posts we want to quote (using the mult-post button) is far better.

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**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/145 "2010-12-04T20:22:31Z")

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Although I personally prefer nested quotes, I agree with the mods’ decision to discontinue them, given the overall membership response and increase in misattribution reports.

What _really_ should be done, but which can only be done by vBulletin (I believe), would be to allow each user to set their preferred quote nesting level in their UserCP (with the default being 1). It kind of boggles my mind that this isn’t an option already, given the years and years of requests for quoting nesting features on the vBulletin forums. Hopefully it will be added at some point, as it would make everybody happy or at least less angry all the time.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/146 "2010-12-04T21:37:04Z")

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> [@Inner\_Stickler](#):
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> I was only remarking on the fact that the reason nested quotes aren’t coming back is because they are too advanced a concept for the general populace of the messageboard…

A reason that does not exist outside your feverish imagination.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/147 "2010-12-04T22:40:51Z")

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> [@Inner\_Stickler](#):
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> It’s a sad state of affairs when a messageboard that prides itself on its superior intellect is incapable of handling nested quotes, a function that 13 year olds on anime boards can handle with nary a problem.

> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> Equally sad that those people who have the rare occasion to nest quotes can’t manage to do it without imposing it on Every. Single. Quote. the rest of us make.

> [@Inner\_Stickler](#):
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> For you maybe. My quoting experience was much easier with nested quotes. I was only remarking on the fact that the reason nested quotes aren’t coming back is because they are too advanced a concept for the general populace of the messageboard, a fact I find deliciously funny in view of the messageboard’s opinion of itself regarding general mental acuity.

> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> A reason that does not exist outside your feverish imagination.

[Moderator Note]

This is ATMB. Let’s dial it back. It should be possible to discuss a messageboard feature without casting aspersions on the mental capacity, competence, or selfishness of other posters with a difference of opinion on the matter. (I already issued a moderator note on this in this thread on Oct 18.)

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**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/148 "2010-12-04T22:43:37Z")

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> [@Inner\_Stickler](#):
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> For you maybe. My quoting experience was much easier with nested quotes. I was only remarking on the fact that the reason nested quotes aren’t coming back is because they are too advanced a concept for the general populace of the messageboard, a fact I find deliciously funny in view of the messageboard’s opinion of itself regarding general mental acuity.

So if I have this right, you are unable to handle the trivially easy MultiQuote button, but it’s everybody else’s stupidity that’s a problem.

I find the irony of your position deliciously funny.

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**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/149 "2010-12-04T22:51:37Z")

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Apologies if my last post is over the line. That moderator warning wasn’t there when I began composing, and I didn’t notice it on preview. I just now saw it and it’s too late to edit my post. (I’m not sure that would even be kosher to do.)

My bad.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/150 "2010-12-04T22:59:21Z")

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Explanation accepted.

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