Not only does your new proposed solution not fix the problem of having to strip out embedded quote material for most people, it also doesn’t adequately solve the problem you originally claimed was the reason that you wanted nested quoting, except for the one situation you described.
Here’s the issue you claimed was the problem:
At two levels of nesting (which is what you’re testing at Giraffe Boards), you might be able to tell who poster A is disagreeing with, but then anyone who answered poster B would have the same problem.
The more elegant way to solve the problem is to go back to stripped quoting and use the mult-quote function, which is largely made useless by nested quoting.
Mostly because it’s not true. Here’s a complaint thread with a bunch of negative comments about nested quoting on Giraffe Boards.
There’s not as much of an impact there since many of the posts are not very long.
Also, giving feedback there has been largely ineffective for me, so I gave my feedback here instead of there. Perhaps other people felt similarly.
::copying out to my gratitude journal::