# Suggestion: restore nested quoting **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 22, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-restore-nested-quoting/547536 "2010-07-22T00:47:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 80
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-restore-nested-quoting/547536/80 "2010-07-26T12:59:15Z")
Congrats and thanks! This adds significant clarity and coherence to the boards for a minimal effort (though apparently there is a terrible moral cost). Even the junior forums (e.g., MPSIMS, IMHO) have plenty of threads where it will be a huge help and time-savings **Fear Itself** says multi-quote is useless? And if you’re the first person to quote more than one poster … you do what? Also, how do you reconcile: > [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Quote sandwiches look like ass with > [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > It really makes the multi-quote feature useless. I may want to reply to several posts made by others So “quote sandwiches” look like ass unless you want to make them? 😕 **Cutting out unwanted material is an order of magnitude easier than collecting un-nested quotes** , _particularly_ when the material is on other pages or not part of the board. Or compare replying to someone’s quote—you don’t have to re-edit the originally quoted text down to the relevant snippet. Has _anyone_ been able to find a substantial number of posters complaining about nested quotes before the functionality was lost? What about a substantial number of posters rejoicing when the functionality was taken away? All I can find is this: > [@Why can't I multi-quote in a post?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-multi-quote-in-a-post/520425/20): > > I [indent nested quotes] manually. It’s not that big a deal if people use the defaults.\* **But if a post has multiple quotes in it, it is definitely a huge pain.** (emphasis added) With both quote functions there was editing to do. There is now much less. Thanks! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-restore-nested-quoting/547536)._