Nested Quotes?


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Posted

Hey folks,

Quick forum usage question. Are nested quotes/quote trees turned off for the new forums or is there some option setting voodoo I need to do to turn them on?


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Nope, quote pyramids are extinct now.


 

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Originally Posted by SunGryphon View Post
Nope, quote pyramids are extinct now.
Typically they can only be recreated by hand.


 

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Originally Posted by Obsidius View Post
Typically they can only be recreated by hand.
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Originally Posted by SunGryphon View Post
Nope, quote pyramids are extinct now.
Which is tedious and not much fun.


 

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Quote:
Originally Posted by SunGryphon View Post
Nope, quote pyramids are extinct now.
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Originally Posted by Obsidius View Post
Typically they can only be recreated by hand.
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Originally Posted by SunGryphon View Post
Which is tedious and not much fun.
So now we can quote multiple posts at the same time by using this button for each message we want to include:

And even if you aren't very good with code, it doesn't take much to move each [quote=name;#] to the beginning so it'll look like this:

Quote:
Originally Posted by SunGryphon View Post
Quote:
Originally Posted by Obsidius View Post
Quote:
Originally Posted by SunGryphon View Post
Nope, quote pyramids are extinct now.
Typically they can only be recreated by hand.
Which is tedious and not much fun.
Pyramind ^^

But yes, it can be a pain to go back to each original post and click the , especially if the thread is multiple pages.


 

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Originally Posted by Master-Blade View Post
But yes, it can be a pain to go back to each original post and click the , especially if the thread is multiple pages.
Did you all know: You can use the little up arrow next to the person's name in a quote (or quote pyramid) so as to jump to the post? Actually, I'm sure many of you did.

But, did you all know that if you use that little arrow to open up a new tab (in FireFox, it's CTRL+click) you can click on the to tag it and then close that window and it will still be tagged to show up in your posted reply? This way you don't lose your place in the thread you're reading.

Here's a little primer I posted in another thread that shows the before and after coding:

Nested quotes:

Use the multiquote function to tag each post you want then hit any 'quote' or 'reply to thread' button.

Each tagged post will show up as a series of blocks... and hey, if you got that going on, is there really any need to 'nest' them?

But if you're set on nesting them move the second-to-last block right after [quote=name] tag of the last block and the third-to-last block right after the [quote=name] tag of the second-to-last block and so on. Raw tagging in editing looks like this...
Code:
[quote=Abigail] I say 'one.' [/quote]

[quote=Bobby] I say 'two.' [/quote]

[quote=Candy] I say 'three.' [/quote]

turn the above multi-quoted post into....

 [quote=Candy][quote=Bobby][quote=Abigail] I say 'one.' [/quote]I say 'two.' [/quote] I say 'three.' [/quote]
If the above is posted, it will look like this....

Quote:
Originally Posted by Abigail
I say 'one.'
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby
I say 'two.'
Quote:
Originally Posted by Candy
I say 'three.'
turn the above multi-quoted post into....

Quote:
Originally Posted by Candy
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby
Quote:
Originally Posted by Abigail
I say 'one.'
I say 'two.'
I say 'three.'


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Thanks folks. I can see the need to kill quote trees. Ideally I would have liked to see them still here, its easy to lose context otherwise.

On the otherhand, people tend to get stupid with them, so I guess this goes into "this is why we can't have nice things" file.


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Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
But, did you all know that if you use that little arrow to open up a new tab (in FireFox, it's CTRL+click) you can click on the to tag it and then close that window and it will still be tagged to show up in your posted reply? This way you don't lose your place in the thread you're reading.
I think I did that accidentally once, then couldn't remember what/how I'd done it later..... thanks for the reminder.


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