Replying to this for no reason other than to reply to it.
Okay.
I hope twickster doesn’t spank me for altering text inside quote tags. I didn’t change the meaning though, just cut out some extra, unnecessary stuff. Actually, I think it’s allowed with the “[…]” added to show I cut some stuff mid-sentence, but I’m not entirely sure. In any case…
Not for me because I’m in Mensa and I’ve been reading since I was a fetus and I taught myself Mozart’s entire library and I thought the SATs (perfect score, btw) were a freakin’ BREEZE.
Because I’m smart.
I think they are about the same.
(And I, super genius that I am, forgot to use the multi-quote function in my previous post to quote the last bit of Roo’s post (also seen in this post), which is I was replying to when I said “stripping code” is the same as deleting text.)
It didn’t really take me seven minutes to do that. I have a 7 year old who has some serious “Mom, look at this. Mom, guess what? Mom, let’s do. Mom, can I have?” today. Even so, seven minutes isn’t all that unreasonable.
Gah! Was that post supposed to be an example of the kind of cool posts we can create with nested quoting? Because that looks incredibly ugly and is really hard to read. I would much rather read a series of stacked quotes, as demonstrated in the other thread on this topic.
Umm, no. That was in response to Roo’s challenge to NAF because he said that he could trim her posts down easily; she said “Try it with this post.” So I did. It wasn’t hard.
It’s not the prettiest thing in the world to look at but it’s possible (and easy, really) to do and, honestly, how often is something like that going to happen naturally? Most discussions will not need quotes from that far back in the conversation. Two level nested quotes are probably fine, I should think.
Actually, if the admins were able to restrict nested quotes to two levels that would probably solve this issue, but if they’re unable/unwilling to do so, I really, really, really think that getting rid of nested quotes is the best solution.
I really prefer having nested quotes. I find that non-nested quotes often produce incomprehensible or mistaken exchanges, when I lose track of what someone was saying because the quote isn’t there. For another, assembling nested quotes by hand is irritating which is what I’ve been doing for a long time.
I think that the setting TubaDiva is talking about out would apply to multi-quotes (the built-in feature where you can click the “multi-quote” button for several posts), but would do nothing about nested quotes (the hack that xash put in.) I could be wrong.
