# Nested quotes have been discontinued **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502 **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:** 1 **Showing post:** 134
### 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, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/134 "2010-12-04T17:10:55Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > Well I’m simply going to have to concede that maybe I’m wrong. This is truly worrisome to me. Whoa, whoa, _whoa_. Let’s not get crazy here. I’m quite certain we used to have them. As evidence, I submit this post from 2004: > [@Nested Quotes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes/241936/7): > > The hamsters used to automatically nest internal quotes, but the feature was dropped in one of the vBulletin updates (I think it was when we came back from the Winter of Missed Content, about two years ago). It makes for much cleaner-looking threads, since a lot of folks habitually “quote” an entire post, unedited, before making their own reply. The exponential growth of those posts–as folks merely continued to quote the responses to the responses with all the old responses still intact–got to be pretty ridiculous in many instances. And this one from 2003: > [@Inserting multiple quotes in posts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inserting-multiple-quotes-in-posts/151925/8): > > Multiple quotes were indeed a feature of 1.x. From what I understand, the hack required to go back to that style is quite involved - or, let me say, more involved than the SDMB is going to do, I am 99% certain. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502)._