On a separate message board I frequent (ddrfreak.com), quoting is infinitely easier. We hit quote, and the entire message of the poster before us becomes quoted–including any quotes this poster may have had before.
It’s a quote-within-a-quote. Excellent for quoting the OP and the comment at hand. Here is how I would code something similar:
[QUOTE=OP]
[QUOTE=Comment]
Here is the comment. It's in a smaller, nexted quote box within the big quote bos.
[/quote]
Here is the very original post. It's in the largest box available.
[/quote]
My question is, why can't we have this?
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.
Nitpick: Linear growth, at most, not exponential, since each post would add at most one layer of nesting. Sorry, misuse of “exponential” is a pet peeve of mine.
Very good, Squink and Lobsang. Now all you have to do is figure out the vB codes for tesselated fish, birds, and lizards.
