Why isn't [quote] the same as [q]?

[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.

[Tuberski]

Re: Why isn't [quote] the same as [q]?

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.....

ACK!

[St Leo]

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.

[Tuberski]

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.



ACK!

[ixnay]

maybe

it's to

avoid

lots of

nested quotes

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by ixnay

maybe

it's to

[/quote]

[/QUOTE]

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

[Dauphin]

What is this threads spam quota?

[DrSpike]

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.

[Skanky Burns]

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.

[Alex]

Sometimes is useful to quote someone who was quoted in another post.

[DrSpike]

True, but that doesn't explain the discrepancy.

[Dauphin]

It is annoying, and would be solved by branching threads.

[vovan]

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.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Maybe they wanted there to be a differentation between quote and q.

And branching theads solve nothing. Just say no.

[St Leo]

quote should not be stripped and q most certainly should be stripped.