30-10-2003 07:40									#1
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Is the annoying way in which quote refuses to be quoted intentional? I find having to rename quote manually to q in order to let people quote whom I've quoted very irritating.

Just wondering.

	30-10-2003 07:58									#2
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quote: Originally posted by St Leo Is the annoying way in which quote refuses to be quoted intentional? I find having to rename quote manually to q in order to let people quote whom I've quoted very irritating. Just wondering.

Huh?

I think I have an idea but maybe I don't.....

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	30-10-2003 08:30									#3
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When you click on Reply with Quote, all the quoted stuff in the post disappears. On the other hand, all the qed stuff remains.

quote and q are synonyms.

	30-10-2003 09:42									#4
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That is what I thought you meant..

I knew q and quote were the same thing.

You want to be able to quote a quoted....quote.



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	30-10-2003 10:00									#5
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quote: maybe quote: it's to quote: avoid quote: lots of quote: nested quotes

	30-10-2003 10:04									#6
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quote: Originally posted by ixnay quote: maybe quote: it's to [/quote]

[/QUOTE]

And if you quote something with a lot of quotes, then it looks strange. Watch!

	30-10-2003 11:49									#7
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What is this threads spam quota?

	30-10-2003 14:52									#8
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Well it was a fair question. But I think the answer is already in, namely that the default is non-nested because otherwise it could get cluttered.

	30-10-2003 16:19									#9
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But then the question stands as to why [q] does still allow itself to be quoted. Although I have a feeling that the answer lies in lack of effort in implementing that feature rather than a concious design decision.

	30-10-2003 23:46									#10
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Sometimes is useful to quote someone who was quoted in another post.

	31-10-2003 00:03									#11
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True, but that doesn't explain the discrepancy.

	31-10-2003 06:51									#12
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It is annoying, and would be solved by branching threads.

	31-10-2003 07:22									#13
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike True, but that doesn't explain the discrepancy.

I'm guessing when someone (re?)wrote the stuff that goes on when one clicks the "Reply with Quote" button, they forgot to add the automatic removal of the q tag. Either that, or the q tag was introduced after the code for removing the quote tags was written, and so someone forgot to update the code.

That's the most likely reason for the discrepancy, it seems to me.

	31-10-2003 07:44									#14
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Maybe they wanted there to be a differentation between quote and q.

And branching theads solve nothing. Just say no.

	01-11-2003 06:19									#15
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quote should not be stripped and q most certainly should be stripped.

	01-11-2003 07:08									#16
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quote: I'm guessing when someone (re?)wrote the stuff that goes on when one clicks the "Reply with Quote" button, they forgot to add the automatic removal of the q tag. Either that, or the q tag was introduced after the code for removing the quote tags was written, and so someone forgot to update the code.

I've only seen the [q] tag on Apolyton, so I'd guess that it was added on by the owners here, to make it so that you didn't have to type out 'quote' every time you wanted to quote something.

	01-11-2003 11:14									#17
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Why can't it use the [q] tag by default, and let us change it to the [quote] if we don't want nesting? It's really annoying to change it manually.

	02-11-2003 00:39									#18
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I'm the person who originally asked for the q tag way back when, and IIRC all Markos did was copy the section of code that governs quote and change all the relevant occurances to q. However, all other code that relates to quoting still uses the q tag, for instance the "quote this post" button and the quote tag button in the posting interface thingy.