Does this crap annoy anyone else? (Quoting)

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: skace
I'd say, first change quotes so that using (q) (/q) doesn't indent or add spaces. It just encompasses the line in those funky line graphics and bolds the name / etc. This change would single handedly remove the pyramid scheme. Now do what Sully suggested and make it so that it ignores any (q)'s in the post you are quoting, thus not allowing a quote inside a quote.

I've yet to see a case where someone needed to quote a person who quoted. If you need to refer to the text in 2 seperate quotes, then quote twice.

This is just a suggestion and it is either likely already in consideration or will never be. But I figured I would throw my ideas in.

I think being able to quote a quote is very important, as is the indentation. Maybe there should be a limit to the amount of nested quotes there can be, say, 5 or 8 or something around there.

 

[Mill]

Yeah, it annoys the hell out of me too.

 

[jhites]

Originally posted by: Millennium
Yeah, it annoys the hell out of me too.

Ditto. There should be a limit with symbols, also.

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooeyI think being able to quote a quote is very important, as is the indentation. Maybe there should be a limit to the amount of nested quotes there can be, say, 5 or 8 or something around there.

5 to 8 ?!!? So every single person needs to quote 5 to 8 people in the thread that most everyone has already read before they got to that post? The point of quoting is to reply directly to a comment. If someone needs to know what the other person was referring to, they can scroll back to that portion of the thread and re-read it.

 

[beatle]

I think nested quotes can get out of hand because of laziness. Obviously the above example isn't laziness, but quoting someone who quoted someone who quoted someone requires you to hunt and peck through the tags and delete those that weren't from the previous poster. Sometimes the text select cuts off additional brackets, etc. that make it more of a hassle (not impossible) to reply directly to someone's comments.

 

[DurocShark]

Agreed, but the worst offenders will find ways to jack the thread anyway.

I try to strip and snip where possible when quoting, but not everybody will.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: DurocShark
...I try to strip and snip where possible when quoting, but not everybody will.

I will.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: DurocShark
...I try to strip and snip where possible when quoting, but not everybody will.

I will.

I already do.

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: Evadman
I already do.

As do I.


So after seeing all the vacations handed out in the "pregnant" thread is it safe to assume that this is now a bannable offense?