Nested quotes

Cambofrog · 31 Mar 2008 at 23:44

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but how do you quote a previous reply which contains a quote, and include all the quotes in a nested way?

I know you can build nested quotes manually as in:

poster one said:
Quoted text from poster one here.

poster two said:

Nested quoted text from poster two here.

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Are there any options in your user settings to quote all text from a post(including their quotes) when using the quote option.

When posting now, and I use the "quote button" on a reply, it seems to snip all previous quotes from the original post and lose context :confused:

shine · 31 Mar 2008 at 23:46

Cambofrog said:
I know you can build nested quotes manually as in:

You already have the answer.

PhillyDee · 31 Mar 2008 at 23:51

shine said:
Cambofrog said:

I know you can build nested quotes manually as in:

poster one said:

Quoted text from poster one here.

poster two said:

Nested quoted text from poster two here.

Click to expand...

Click to expand...

Click to expand...

You already have the answer.

He is correct my leige.

Cambofrog · 31 Mar 2008 at 23:58

I know I have the answer regarding building the nested quoting manually, but that is a bit of a drag. Most other forums I use will include previous quotes automatically, without snipping them.

Is there no way to automate that on this forum?

TIA

Vonhelmet · 1 Apr 2008 at 00:00

OH NOES PYRAMID QUOTE!

PhillyDee · 1 Apr 2008 at 00:00

Probably a setting in the admin panel. I know there is in phpbb. Max Nested Quotes. Probably set to 1. We broke phpnuke forum once by making a huge quoteamid.

Cambofrog · 1 Apr 2008 at 00:10

PhillyDee said:
Probably a setting in the admin panel. I know there is in phpbb. Max Nested Quotes. Probably set to 1.

Yea maybe, I couldn't find anything on my contol panel, hopefully an admin will respond.

Edit:

We broke phpnuke forum once by making a huge quoteamid.

Obviously people would have to be responsiple in their snipping, but that could apply to a single (long) quote

JollyGreen · 1 Apr 2008 at 00:11

I would imagine it's done on purpose, to prevent the annoying cascade of quotes that some people seem to delight in.

Cambofrog · 1 Apr 2008 at 00:18

JollyGreen said:
I would imagine it's done on purpose, to prevent the annoying cascade of quotes that some people seem to delight in.

Yea, I agree that it is open to abuse, but it can really lose context.

PhillyDee · 1 Apr 2008 at 00:45

*whistles*

DampCat · 1 Apr 2008 at 00:58

It's disabled on this board and i imagine doing it manually will get you a swift holiday.

Cambofrog · 1 Apr 2008 at 01:02

DampCat said:
It's disabled on this board and i imagine doing it manually will get you a swift holiday.

Why would that be if it is done to keep context and not over used?

Akira · 1 Apr 2008 at 01:05

DampCat said:
It's disabled on this board and i imagine doing it manually will get you a swift holiday.

I don't think so, as far as I can see it's only not included because these boards are purposely kept as basic as possible for less maintenance. If you choose to manually nest quotes, can't see what it would matter to anyone else.

Skeeter · 1 Apr 2008 at 02:25

I ran a forum once...

It allowed quotes within quotes...

We had a 3 page thread where every post was a quote of the post before with some additional stupid comment...

Its disabled for a reason...

V4NT0M · 30 Apr 2008 at 16:12

listen to skeeter, he's blue

platypus · 30 Apr 2008 at 16:24

PhillyDee said:
He is correct my leige.

I know this is an old thread, but this reminded me of "Exit the game, my lord?"

p4radox · 30 Apr 2008 at 16:29

Angus Higgins would have a field-day with nested quotes.

gumbald · 30 Apr 2008 at 16:31

p4radox said:
Angus Higgins would have a field-day with nested quotes.

sniffy · 30 Apr 2008 at 16:34

platypus said:
I know this is an old thread, but this reminded me of "Exit the game, my lord?"

The peon voices were legendary

platypus · 30 Apr 2008 at 16:42

sniffy said:
The peon voices were legendary

High-five

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