# Why don't quotes include nested quotes? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 3, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-quotes-include-nested-quotes/685251 "2014-04-03T14:19:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-quotes-include-nested-quotes/685251/5 "2014-04-03T14:59:51Z")
Nested quotes were enabled for four months in 2010. > [@Quote Boxes Screwing Up](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-boxes-screwing-up/548139/1): > > Twice this week, the quote boxes in someone’s post has attributed a quote to me that was made by someone else. And just now, when I quoted someone, the box attributed someone else. See [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12724502&postcount=192) (the quote was actually made by **Spoke** , not by me), [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12729086&postcount=19) (quote made by **Bridget Burke** , not by me) and [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12730486&postcount=22) (quote made by **Chefguy** , not by **Bridget Burke** ). > > Something is up with the quote boxes. This did’t happen before. > [@Nested quotes have been discontinued](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nested-quotes-have-been-discontinued/557502/1): > > Based on mod/admin requests, the previously installed nested quotes function has been discontinued. > > Many quotes were being mis-attributed because posters were deleting the wrong {quote} tags when editing nested posts. Brackets in **xash** ’s post changed because they messed up the code. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-quotes-include-nested-quotes/685251)._