multiple-level quoting?

[joeyconnick]

Is there anyway to make it so that when we quote as a reply, it includes material that is already quoted in the message we're replying to?

What I mean is that if I'm replying by quoting to this kind of message:

Person 1 text
|
L__Person 2 quoted text

I only end up with Person 1's text--Person 2's quoted stuff goes away. As a quoting-fanatic, I hate this. I would rather manually have to delete unwanted quoted material than have to reconstruct it manually. Sometimes you need to include the material someone else has quoted in your reply to provide proper context.

[nisomer]

didnt u do that on this thread (http://emptyclosets.com/forum/showthread.php?t=195)? you quoted the original person, and quoted my reply to him.

[joeyconnick]

didnt u do that on this thread (http://emptyclosets.com/forum/showthread.php?t=195)? you quoted the original person, and quoted my reply to him.Yeah, and I had to do that manually by copying your quoted text and putting it in the right tags, whcih was a major pain.

[TriBi]

AFAIK this is just how things work with VBulletin....at least, that is how it appears to be with the other VBulletin forum I regularly go to.

[joeyconnick]

AFAIK this is just how things work with VBulletin....at least, that is how it appears to be with the other VBulletin forum I regularly go to.Yeah, I just checked on their website and it is. Gods the silly behaviour this program has by design. I mean, it's harder programmatically to code it to remove the existing quoted material, so you'd think that multiple-level quoting would at least be an option. *sigh*

[nisomer]

well for some reason, it seems to work when you are PMing people.

[joeyconnick]

well for some reason, it seems to work when you are PMing people.Yeah, if you can believe, that's by design too... sometimes programmers are really, really weird.

[goratrix]

Yeah, if you can believe, that's by design too... sometimes programmers are really, really weird.

Hey! don't take it on programmers!! they are potentially hot gay nerds!!!

[hawkeye]

agreed! It's funny there's at least two of us on here. I've got to say, it is bad programming to not realize that this is a problem. when i add stuff to homemade programs, i usually have someone else try out the feature and make comments before i consider it done.

[Corny]

it's intended to work like that, because way too many people just hint the quote button, don't shorten a bit of the quoted text and reply with a one-liner below (or even worse: above) a 50 line quote. and the next guy will hit quote again and reply above that double quote and so on ;) yes, it happens more than just sometimes :(

[hawkeye]

that does make sence now. I guess we just havent had many posts like that to annoy us.

[goratrix]

so... it's due to people not knowing a little forum-ettiquette... hmm. interesting...

[nisomer]

so... it's due to people not knowing a little forum-ettiquette... hmm. interesting...

haha exactly! i guess not everyone has 1337 skills like u goratrix ;)