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You know the issue I'm talking about. Just add another +1 to the people who would like to see the forum software settings changed.
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You know the issue I'm talking about. Just add another +1 to the people who would like to see the forum software...It seems like that would undermine...
The foundations of our reality? If so, we'll pierce the heavens, reject that reality and substitute it with our own!
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. If so, we'll pierce the heavens, reject that reality and substitute...
... cookies?
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Huh?
I am so sorry, OP.
In all seriousness though, I do understand the frustration. Especially when you're responding to huge posts way back in a long thread.
I'm not sure what could be done that wouldn't be open to nesting abuse though. :(
Hmm... since the vast majority of postings append at the end of the previous one, cutting the start of the quoted text when things get too long might be an idea.
Which, of course, would leave the quoter with a broken set of quoting tags...
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I am so sorry, OP.
In all seriousness though, I do understand the frustration. Especially when you're responding to huge posts way back in a long thread.
I'm not sure what could be done that wouldn't be open to nesting abuse though. :(
Hmm... since the vast majority of postings append at the end of the previous one, cutting the start of the quoted text when things get too long might be an idea.
Which, of course, would leave the quoter with a broken set of quoting tags...
Augh, hadn't even thought about that. Not sure how to best make that work.
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I'm pretty used to editing what I reply to to remove nested quotes where not required, so going to the effort of pasting in the full original text if truncated is just par for the course. At the same time, I'm also someone who takes the time to tag spell names in italics and apply other formatting regularly to make my stuff readable. Dunno. If something is worth being said, it's worth spending some effort on it.
I'd rather not see huge nested quote spam and this is a reasonable way to prevent it.
^ what he said. :)
I think the cutting off quotes is causing more annoyance than the nested quotes would, honestly.
Maybe it depends on what subforums one frequents. I take part in many (too many) debates, so it's a pain in the ass to have to go back and copy what got cut.
Personally, I'm thinking this is a perfect case for judicious use of regexps to remove the innermost quotes until the overall size fits within the required character count.
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I think the cutting off quotes is causing more annoyance than the nested quotes would, honestly.
Maybe it depends on what subforums one frequents. I take part in many (too many) debates, so it's a pain in the ass to have to go back and copy what got cut.
In my humble opinion - and I do actually do this - you should be in-line replying. Chop up the original quote and reply paragraph by paragraph.
