Quote chain getting out of hand

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#1 Edited by GhoX (5027 posts) -

Can we please have a limit to the number of posts quoted back to, or a maximum length to quotation space?

Having posts full of 10+ quotes in them destroys the message board.

#2 Posted by the_bi99man (11047 posts) -

Agreed completely. Yet another of the essential and fundamental features that existed on the old site, and has been removed for no reason. Nothing is gained by removing it. Nothing is improved. Only negative results, without a single positive.

#3 Posted by WhiteKnight77 (12018 posts) -

It would be nice if there was a way to remove some quotes, but if you put the cursor in the text box for the quote, it cannot be removed to type in the the main text box. It really is messed up.

#4 Posted by RobotOpBuddy (65102 posts) -

You can remove nested quotes manually for the time being from what I can tell - quoting a post with a quote it in allows you to remove the inner quote manually using delete with the cursor in the right place, the hover-over options affect the entire thing in general only though, so using that will delete the quoted message you want to keep alongside the ones you want to remove.

That said, I know what you mean - I've seen a fair few excessive quote pyramids and that should be limited somehow so that they don't waste quite so much thread space unnecessarily.

#5 Posted by leon2365 (13053 posts) -

I don't think there was a literal limit on the old site. mods maybe cracked down on using it excessively (and they still should), but there was never a point where an error message came up, or a button not working because of such circumstances.

#6 Edited by DigitalDame (4064 posts) -

I'll add this feature to the list of enhancements for forums. Thanks for providing constructive input @GhoX.
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