One of the things I've seen on another forum I frequent is that it prevents multi-level quoting. When a person quotes a quote with a quote with a quote.... etc. here on BLF each reply inside is getting stretched to the point where it fills nearly a whole page. An example can be seen below (sorry I'm pointing out a particular case, it's just the most recent I've noticed).
Can some kind of script be added that prevents this kind of problem? For example, quoting a reply would only show the single message, and hide every quote that was inside?
Something like this:
I have seen a mention of this from two years ago but the discussion didn't go further than perhaps five posts
Those long posts are pretty much a thing of the past with most of us, but it did get a bit out of hand for a while Better to quote only the relevant posts you’re addressing, and then only if it’s necessary for understanding your response :sunglasses:
IP board also has a function that removes any quotes inside quotes.
I always do it manually here though would be cool if it could be added/enabled to do it itself.
This used to be a fairly regular occurrence, sometimes done to excess for the fun of it. I’d rather avoid engineering out this kind of thing, even grown ups need to get silly sometimes.
Just a bit of common sense fellows, slim down the quotes to the exact phrase/paragraph of choice, or just don't hit the friggin “quote” button, lots of times it's just not needed.
Actually the photo only gets downloaded once, and all future references to it are cached, so no extra data usage.
I don’t know of any way to limit the levels of quotes, although it seems like ToyKeeper had a Javascript hack that she posted somewhere here a while back. Let’s just all try to be a bit more conscientious and prudent with the use of the QUOTE button.
Better to quote only the relevant posts you’re addressing, and then only if it’s necessary for understanding your response :sunglasses:
would be cool if it could be added/enabled to do it itself.
