FabSwingers.com forum: Quoting forum posts

By *harpDressed Man OP Man
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

As threads progress, people quote posts in order to reply, but over time the amount of quote becomes ridiculous - adding no value (as it's only the last line or two that is actually relevant to the new response) and taking time and server space.

On other sites, the forum software can be set to not allow nested quotes, so users can quote a post, but not anything the their quoted post was itself quoting.

This would, in my opinion, improve the readability of the forums immediately, and give additional savings of server space.

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I usually delete the irrelevant stuff and only quote the bit im replying to

By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"I usually delete the irrelevant stuff and only quote the bit im replying to"

Me too

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"As threads progress, people quote posts in order to reply, but over time the amount of quote becomes ridiculous - adding no value (as it's only the last line or two that is actually relevant to the new response) and taking time and server space.

On other sites, the forum software can be set to not allow nested quotes, so users can quote a post, but not anything the their quoted post was itself quoting.

This would, in my opinion, improve the readability of the forums immediately, and give additional savings of server space."

and miss out on scrolling 17 screens worth of quotes in a post to get to the thumbs up at the bottom

By *harpDressed Man OP Man
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

"I usually delete the irrelevant stuff and only quote the bit im replying to

Me too

Ah, but you both know that you're exceptions...