EvC Forum: adding a quotes feature

Percy writes:

This forum's software's reply/quote feature is a bit too powerful. It's what we experts call recursive. This means it can be invoked within itself. Allow me to demonstrate by first quoting me:

Percy writes:

This forum's software's reply/quote feature is a bit too powerful. It's what we experts call recursive. This means it can be invoked within itself. Allow me to demonstrate by first quoting me:

If all the above plus this sentence were a single message and someone were to use reply/quote on it then we would have:

Someone else writes:

This forum's software's reply/quote feature is a bit too powerful. It's what we experts call recursive. This means it can be invoked within itself. Allow me to demonstrate by first quoting me:

Percy writes:

This forum's software's reply/quote feature is a bit too powerful. It's what we experts call recursive. This means it can be invoked within itself. Allow me to demonstrate by first quoting me:

If all the above plus this sentence were a single message and someone were to use reply/quote on it then we would have:

This can go on ad infinitum:

Percy writes:

This forum's software's reply/quote feature is a bit too powerful. It's what we experts call recursive. This means it can be invoked within itself. Allow me to demonstrate by first quoting me:

Percy writes:

This forum's software's reply/quote feature is a bit too powerful. It's what we experts call recursive. This means it can be invoked within itself. Allow me to demonstrate by first quoting me:

If all the above plus this sentence were a single message and someone were to use reply/quote on it then we would have:

Someone else writes:

This forum's software's reply/quote feature is a bit too powerful. It's what we experts call recursive. This means it can be invoked within itself. Allow me to demonstrate by first quoting me:

Percy writes:

This forum's software's reply/quote feature is a bit too powerful. It's what we experts call recursive. This means it can be invoked within itself. Allow me to demonstrate by first quoting me:

If all the above plus this sentence were a single message and someone were to use reply/quote on it then we would have:

This can go on ad infinitum:

I thought this feature would be neat when I first conceived it because no other forum software had it. Their reply/quote feature wasn't recursive, and so interior quotes had to be filtered out. But recursion had an unintended consequence: people would indiscriminately use it to reply and not remove any text at all, and things would get worse and worse:

Someone else writes:

This forum's software's reply/quote feature is a bit too powerful. It's what we experts call recursive. This means it can be invoked within itself. Allow me to demonstrate by first quoting me:

Percy writes:

This forum's software's reply/quote feature is a bit too powerful. It's what we experts call recursive. This means it can be invoked within itself. Allow me to demonstrate by first quoting me:

If all the above plus this sentence were a single message and someone were to use reply/quote on it then we would have:

Someone else writes:

This forum's software's reply/quote feature is a bit too powerful. It's what we experts call recursive. This means it can be invoked within itself. Allow me to demonstrate by first quoting me:

Percy writes:

This forum's software's reply/quote feature is a bit too powerful. It's what we experts call recursive. This means it can be invoked within itself. Allow me to demonstrate by first quoting me:

If all the above plus this sentence were a single message and someone were to use reply/quote on it then we would have:

This can go on ad infinitum:

Percy writes:

This forum's software's reply/quote feature is a bit too powerful. It's what we experts call recursive. This means it can be invoked within itself. Allow me to demonstrate by first quoting me:

Percy writes:

This forum's software's reply/quote feature is a bit too powerful. It's what we experts call recursive. This means it can be invoked within itself. Allow me to demonstrate by first quoting me:

If all the above plus this sentence were a single message and someone were to use reply/quote on it then we would have:

Someone else writes:

This forum's software's reply/quote feature is a bit too powerful. It's what we experts call recursive. This means it can be invoked within itself. Allow me to demonstrate by first quoting me:

Percy writes:

This forum's software's reply/quote feature is a bit too powerful. It's what we experts call recursive. This means it can be invoked within itself. Allow me to demonstrate by first quoting me:

If all the above plus this sentence were a single message and someone were to use reply/quote on it then we would have:

This can go on ad infinitum:

Still, reply/quote will probably make a comeback at some point. On our todo list is a modification that would disallow recursive quoting beyond some level, and also disallow quotes longer than a certain limit.

--Percy

I know what you mean. I've seen some forums where this quotes-within-quotes-within-quotes were so prevalent that it was hard to actually see what words were the message.

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