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Anyone else miss nested quotes?

rockyct

rockyct

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So, we've been on VB for a while now and while I think it's been great overall (except for the hours of downtime on the weekend) but I still miss the nested quotes. It really breaks up conversations by having to click the quoted poster to see what he quoted.

Oh well. I didn't think I'd like inline images, but they've won me over.
 
I agree that the old nested quotes were allowed to get too long. However I also think that the current single quote system sucks. I would think it would be easy for them to set a limit on nested quote depth. Something like 3 levels would still keep threads relatively clean and make conversations easier to follow.
 
eldorado99 said:
I miss time warps more. 🙁
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lol, those were a lot of fun.

Locut0s said:
I agree that the old nested quotes were allowed to get too long. However I also think that the current single quote system sucks. I would think it would be easy for them to set a limit on nested quote depth. Something like 3 levels would still keep threads relatively clean and make conversations easier to follow.
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I'd take nested quote nef fests over the system we have now.
 
They should put at least 2 levels of nested quotes, because some people quotes people and answers IN the quote, making quoting a PITA.
 
Nested quotes eat shit, especially when people can't be arsed to trim images. If you can't remember what was typed 2 minutes ago, you have more severe problems than nested quotes to worry about.
 
I miss them. Perhaps it would be nice if the board could show them in a way that could be collapsed or expanded, with the most current 2 already expanded.
 
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lxskllr said:
Nested quotes eat shit, especially when people can't be arsed to trim images. If you can't remember what was typed 2 minutes ago, you have more severe problems than nested quotes to worry about.
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Did somebody piss in your bowl of corn flakes this morning?
 
Number1 said:
Did somebody piss in your bowl of corn flakes this morning?
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Nah, nested quotes are just irritating as shit. :^D

Lazy quoting is irritating in general. People will quote 3 images, and 4 paragraphs to comment on 1 sentence in the middle of it all. These are the same lazy twats that can't take the shopping cart back to the depot after using it, because it just requires too much effort. It literally takes seconds to properly trim a quote if you have most of your fingers, and know how to operate a computer.
 
lxskllr said:
Nah, nested quotes are just irritating as shit. :^D

Lazy quoting is irritating in general. People will quote 3 images, and 4 paragraphs to comment on 1 sentence in the middle of it all. These are the same lazy twats that can't take the shopping cart back to the depot after using it, because it just requires too much effort. It literally takes seconds to properly trim a quote if you have most of your fingers, and know how to operate a computer.
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Fine but I do return my shopping cart to the depot and I like nested quotes. Umm, I must be an exception.
 
Locut0s said:
I agree that the old nested quotes were allowed to get too long. However I also think that the current single quote system sucks. I would think it would be easy for them to set a limit on nested quote depth. Something like 3 levels would still keep threads relatively clean and make conversations easier to follow.
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This.

MoitonMan
 
I can see how if you read the first three posts, and read nothing else in the thread until the last 2 or 3 posts, how you might miss something. But, I can't recall ever losing track of a conversation because of the lack of nested quotes. Some of you must simply not have very good memories.
 
DrPizza said:
I can see how if you read the first three posts, and read nothing else in the thread until the last 2 or 3 posts, how you might miss something. But, I can't recall ever losing track of a conversation because of the lack of nested quotes. Some of you must simply not have very good memories.
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Whats the reason for not allowing nested quote anyway? Like somebody mentioned before, they could be restricted to 3 or 4 and be collapsible.

Now this is not an very important issue, just one of convenience for some of us.
 
Number1 said:
Whats the reason for not allowing nested quote anyway? Like somebody mentioned before, they could be restricted to 3 or 4 and be collapsible.

Now this is not an very important issue, just one of convenience for some of us.
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I resigned now there's no one left to ban the abusers.
 
Nested quotes were horrible because people were stupid and would be quoting seven people back when they were only addressing the most recent post.
 
oldsmoboat said:
Number1 said:
DrPizza said:
I can see how if you read the first three posts, and read nothing else in the thread until the last 2 or 3 posts, how you might miss something. But, I can't recall ever losing track of a conversation because of the lack of nested quotes. Some of you must simply not have very good memories.
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Whats the reason for not allowing nested quote anyway? Like somebody mentioned before, they could be restricted to 3 or 4 and be collapsible.

Now this is not an very important issue, just one of convenience for some of us.
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I resigned now there's no one left to ban the abusers.
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A bit more work but doable if it is that important to the OP and people that have the need to nest.
 
Absolutely not.

My difficulty to read boards shall not be augmented by your lack of appropriate netiquette! 😀
 
lxskllr said:
Nah, nested quotes are just irritating as shit. :^D

Lazy quoting is irritating in general. People will quote 3 images, and 4 paragraphs to comment on 1 sentence in the middle of it all. These are the same lazy twats that can't take the shopping cart back to the depot after using it, because it just requires too much effort. It literally takes seconds to properly trim a quote if you have most of your fingers, and know how to operate a computer.
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In Asia, many places with shopping carts have a mechanism that locks carts to each other in nested form. To release the cart, you need to insert a coin. If you want your coin back, then you need to nest your cart into another cart. I never see carts left in parking lots when I'm overseas.

I'm guessing in America that there would be gripes about having to carry a quarter (most Asians overseas are very cash-based, so coins aren't a problem). I can also imagine that Americans are lazy enough that they'd simply abandon the coin, but I think that the homeless/kids/guys who go around collecting cans/bottles in my area would pick up the slack.

http://www.google.com/images?rlz=1T4ADBF_enUS230US231&q=shopping+cart+lock
 
Rumpltzer said:
I can also imagine that Americans are lazy enough that they'd simply abandon the coin, but I think that the homeless/kids/guys who go around collecting cans/bottles in my area would pick up the slack.
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Reminds me of that movie Terminal with Tom Hanks, he goes around collecting the luggage carts to buy food lol
 
Rumpltzer said:
In Asia, many places with shopping carts have a mechanism that locks carts to each other in nested form. To release the cart, you need to insert a coin. If you want your coin back, then you need to nest your cart into another cart. I never see carts left in parking lots when I'm overseas.

I'm guessing in America that there would be gripes about having to carry a quarter (most Asians overseas are very cash-based, so coins aren't a problem). I can also imagine that Americans are lazy enough that they'd simply abandon the coin, but I think that the homeless/kids/guys who go around collecting cans/bottles in my area would pick up the slack.

http://www.google.com/images?rlz=1T4ADBF_enUS230US231&q=shopping+cart+lock
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Any Aldi I've ever been to has this system, it makes sense to me. At least then you can profit off of lazy people.
 
iGas said:
A bit more work but doable if it is that important to the OP and people that have the need to nest.
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This is the problem though. I just broke your nest because I'm too lazy to manually add it. If there was a good greasemonkey script or something, I'd probably do it and encourage others to use it.

The problem is that over multiple pages people will respond to different people. I'm just glancing over threads and posts that interest me; I'm not going to try to remember what was exactly said to whom. That would make me try to remember which poster said what.

Ultimately, I just feel that the readability of the forums would be nicer if we had just a few layers of nested quotes allowed.

Oh, and I still have yet to hear a good reason they shut down the forums at like 10 PM on Sunday or some time around that.
 
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