It's been cropping up a lot, especially in the Off Topic board where there is quite a bit of debating happening a lot of the time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The problem is that when people quote a post to reply to it, they don't necessarily need to quote previous posts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the example:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blah blah blah

 

 

 

Spam spam spam

 

 

 

Unfunny remark

 

 

 

Lol

 

 

 

Insightful comment

 

 

 

Actual reply

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A lot of the time, posters quote only to reply to one post. However, when said post also quotes others which then quote other posts, threads are cluttered unnecessarily.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've seen other boards disable nested quoting by default, instead limiting the quoted post to the original one, minus any others. That saves a lot of space and hassle when quoting one post to debate points, because most of the time, you have to delete all the irrelevant junk because you don't want to create more clutter yourself.

Last time we tried that... this was the result...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

blah blah blah, yakka yakka yakka

 

 

 

lalalalala la la

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ooooo ahhhh

 

 

 

hmph

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you tried to quote the above, all you'd get in your reply is:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[quote]hmph[/quote]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It essentially got rid of everything except for the text after the last quote :uhh:

 

 

 

When it's fixed, I'm all for removing nested quotes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

redundundant