Limiting Nested Quoting, and other Quote button issues (Fusetalk Feature Requests?)

[beer]

The quote button is starting to be abused. Most of the threads are just 5-deep quotes with one line response.

Is it possible to, say, parse a reply and when the quote button is used and just quote the last two levels?

I.E:

Posted By: xxxxx
Posted By: xxxxx

instead of 5 or more? It's so abused that sometimes it makes me horizontally scroll on my XGA laptop screen. Plus it wastes a lot of bandwidth I'm sure.

 

[Azraele]

I agree. It drives me nuts when it's abused.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: Elemental007
The quote button is starting to be abused. Most of the threads are just 5-deep quotes with one line response.

Is it possible to, say, parse a reply and when the quote button is used and just quote the last two levels?

I.E:

Posted By: xxxxx
Posted By: xxxxx

instead of 5 or more? It's so abused that sometimes it makes me horizontally scroll on my XGA laptop screen. Plus it wastes a lot of bandwidth I'm sure.

People who abuse get a vacation. I remember one thread in particular where several people got one.

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: Elemental007
The quote button is starting to be abused. Most of the threads are just 5-deep quotes with one line response.

Is it possible to, say, parse a reply and when the quote button is used and just quote the last two levels?

I.E:

Posted By: xxxxx
Posted By: xxxxx

instead of 5 or more? It's so abused that sometimes it makes me horizontally scroll on my XGA laptop screen. Plus it wastes a lot of bandwidth I'm sure.

People who abuse get a vacation. I remember one thread in particular where several people got one.

It's not necessarily abused with the purpose of neffing.

For example, take the thread about 200k miles on a car.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=38&threadid=1198845

Look at some of Millennium's and Laust's posts. 40 lines of text are quoted for one line of a reply. It's not out of abuse, it's just out of conveience. Maybe make the quote button quote the top 3 lines, and the original poster, and truncate it off. And only quote two-deep replies. That way, if someone wants to quote a whole post, they have to manually do it via copy/paste and the quote tags. People use the quote button out of convenience without regard as to how much scrolling it takes to read through some threads.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Elemental007
It's not necessarily abused with the purpose of neffing.

For example, take the thread about 200k miles on a car.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=38&threadid=1198845

Look at some of Millennium's and Laust's posts. 40 lines of text are quoted for one line of a reply. It's not out of abuse, it's just out of conveience. Maybe make the quote button quote the top 3 lines, and the original poster, and truncate it off. And only quote two-deep replies. That way, if someone wants to quote a whole post, they have to manually do it via copy/paste and the quote tags. People use the quote button out of convenience without regard as to how much scrolling it takes to read through some threads.

I've never found it too hard to scroll back to select and delete all but the latest few quotes, so I guess there are some people in the world who are even lazier than myself. :Q

Anyway, I've seen some <mumbles>other forum software</mumbles> that does this, so I can't see how it would be that much trouble to add. Of course, I'm not a ColdFusion programmer, so take that with a 50lb bag of salt.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

It's not even just a fusetalk problem, people have done this with email since the beginning of time. REALLY REALLY ANNOYING. One guy recently quoted a whole multi-page email for the purpose of replying with TWO WORDS at the top.

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
It's not even just a fusetalk problem, people have done this with email since the beginning of time. REALLY REALLY ANNOYING. One guy recently quoted a whole multi-page email for the purpose of replying with TWO WORDS at the top.

So why does it seem so farfetched to implement features that limit it? It's really annoying, like you said.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Elemental007
So why does it seem so farfetched to implement features that limit it? It's really annoying, like you said.

It would be interesting programaticly to pull out only 2 sets of the quotes. It could be done though with a decent VB script or whatever Fusetalk is built in.

 

[ThaGrandCow]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: Elemental007
So why does it seem so farfetched to implement features that limit it? It's really annoying, like you said.

It would be interesting programaticly to pull out only 2 sets of the quotes. It could be done though with a decent VB script or whatever Fusetalk is built in.

The SomethingAwful forums do this automatically, so it can't be that difficult

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: Elemental007
So why does it seem so farfetched to implement features that limit it? It's really annoying, like you said.

It would be interesting programaticly to pull out only 2 sets of the quotes. It could be done though with a decent VB script or whatever Fusetalk is built in.

Fusetalk is built in coldfusion.

Btw FelixDeKat it was 10 people

ANd i agree its bloody annoying when people quote quote

 

[Mookow]

I came into Forum Issues to make a post just like this...

I think 2 deep might be a little extreme, though... I would make it 4-5 deep.

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Guessing that this falls under the "Fusetalk Feature" requests, therefore more likely to get attention at the fusetalk site itself. For the record, some sort of limit would seem both logical and valuable.

 

[Ornery]

"...sometimes it makes me horizontally scroll on my XGA laptop screen."

Wouldn't bother me at all to get rid of the damn quote 'feature'. Most of the time it's used senselessly. I'd like to know why I too end up having to scroll horizontally. I recently had my subscriber account end, and just noticed this scrolling issue. Never had that problem before, so obviously this can be fixed.

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: Ornery
I'd like to know why I too end up having to scroll horizontally. I recently had my subscriber account end, and just noticed this scrolling issue. Never had that problem before, so obviously this can be fixed.

Maybe it's because subscribers don't have the content of the page pushed over to the right ~175 pixels to begin with.