Please, please, please put it back to 0 again. The new problems were with *nested *quotes, not multiquotes. With the current settings, anyone who selects more than five posts to quote has the other ones dropped, with absolutely no warning.
For example: I catch up on a thread that has had a lot of activity since the last time I posted. I find several people who either replied to me or made points that I’d like to respond to. I select seven posts and hit quote. When I get to the composition window, and suddenly the first two posts I selected aren’t there. Now I have to try to remember where in the thread they were, scroll back down, and manually copy-paste them so I can quote them and respond.
AFAIK, there has been *no problem *with people multiquoting multiple posts. Any post they’re multiquoting is one they intend to reply to–which can result in big ol’ wall o’ text posts, but potentially with valid contributions. Contrast this with *nested *quotes, where each layer of nesting is only repeating something that someone else has said before. IMO, it makes sense to limit nesting quotes, but *not *to limit the number of posts someone can multiquote.