Can you modify the Quote function so that embedded quotes are included in the quote?
If I reply to a message by Quoting it, or select it for multiple quotes with the +, only text that the poster wrote is included. If that poster quoted another post in his own post, that embedded quote is not included. This creates a problem with creating the proper context for my own reply. I can manually add it, but why?
A few years ago, the admins turned on embedded quotes but some people managed to screw things up so posts were attributed incorrectly. (I can’t remember exactly how people managed to screw it up.) So that experiment ended.
Yes, some years ago we tried enabling embedded quotes. It got so many complaints and caused so much confusion we went back to the original way.
I know that it’s somewhat annoying to have to manually add back in quoted posts, but most people concluded this was preferable to embedded quotes.
If you, Dewey Finn had quoted the OP, and I grabbed that post, it would look like this.
That same exact quote, with one quote tag missing would look like this…
[quote=“Dewey_Finn, post:2, topic:844764”]
The last line, beginning with “A few years ago…” was written by Dewey Finn, Now CookingWithGas.
Of course there’s umpteen other ways to screw it up which will each give you their own unique results, but this IIRC was a common one.
Also, please excuse that I may have technically crossed the line into ‘altering quotes’, but I wanted a real example instead of a hypothetical one and no one had quoted anyone yet so I didn’t have anything to work with.
Having said all that, you can, as you see here, still nest quotes, there’s just not a button to do it automatically.
Here’sthe thread from 2010 announcing the discontinuation of nested quotes.
I didn’t find the announcement for turning them on, but it seems to have been August 2010. Within a month people were complaining about them. The experiment lasted less than three months.
It’s easy enough to just use the multiquote button.
I don’t think multiquote works for nested quotes. It’s meant for quoting multiple posts. I suppose you can move things around to nest the quotes, but I just do it all manually.
Thanks for the response. I was a member then but somehow that escaped my attention.
Well, yeah, that happens if people start fucking with quotes, which I guess they do. Not sure why people would delete a tag.
A template:
[noparse]
[/noparse]
Would look like
I meant use it instead of nested quotes. I do it all the time. It goes like this:
John Smith : Blah Blah Blah
Mary Jones: {Quotes John Smith} Youre wrong because yadda yadda yadda
Me : {quotes john smith}{quotes Mary Jones} You misunderstood the point, it’s waffe waffle waffle.
No need to have johns’s quote nested inside mary’s.
Carelessness, usually.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
I’ve seen mangled quotes as a result of nested quotes being turned on, and I’ve also seen mangled quotes as a result of people attempting to work around them being turned off. I’m not sure which I’ve seen more of.
Sometime people want to quote just part of a post. When doing that, it’s really easy to delete the last ] in the quote tag. I’ve done it a zillion times. I normally catch it when I preview, but not everyone previews all the time. And the one time you don’t is sure to be the time you screw up.
I used them a fair bit and had a lot of luck with them – but if memory serves me right I also had some real problems how they were used by others. I remember giving up on the one debate because by post 30 and all the multiple quotes I had no idea just what the heck was being talked about at that point.
Yeah, that, too. A whole bunch of quote sandwiches can make a thread unreadable.
Looks like being the smartest, hippest people on the internet didn’t turn out to be that high of a bar to clear…
Even the smartest, hippest people can make misteaks. 
As can you. 