The quote bug

[Adagio]

Just curious... why is it that you can't quote a poster who quotes another poster

e.g.

Poster1:
Goodday all

Poster2: (Quotes poster1)
[ q ] Goodday all [ / q ]
It's not day, it's night

Poster3: (Quotes poster2)
[ q ] It's not day, it's night [ / q ]
Sure it's day...



Why doesn't poster3's post look like this instead:
[ q ] [ q ] Goodday all [ / q ]
It's not day, it's night [ / q ]
Sure it's day...

[Skanky Burns]

The full [quote] tags from another person's post get removed when you quote them. It is a feature from the boards. If people use [q], however, the board won't remove them. Both people need to use [q] tags rather than the full tags for it to work though.

[Adagio]

... but the question is why?

[Illuminatus]

You must be really bored.

[Jamski]

... but the question is why?

You must be really bored.

I certainly am.

-Jam

[Solver]

In fact, because the [ quote ] tags are built-in in vB, while the [ q] tags are manually added.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by obstructor
You must be really bored.

I was just always confused why it didn't work automaticly...

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
The full [quote] tags from another person's post get removed when you quote them. It is a feature from the boards. If people use [q], however, the board won't remove them. Both people need to use [q] tags rather than the full tags for it to work though.

I often use both variants within a post, if I'm breaking a single quote into several mini quotes.

[alva]

So there's a difference in how they appear???

[Harovan]

So there's a difference in how they appear???

No.

[Robert]

I think it's a feature to prevent big huge useless quotes. And of course, big huge useless waste of space.

If you want to quote both quotes, literary quote both.

[DrSpike]

Haven't seen this one for a while.

[Skanky Burns]

Where are Ixnay's "nested quotes from hell"?
That is all that seems to be missing from this thread now.

[Harovan]

Here seems to be a cap anyway. I tried to display a nice quote pyramid, but all it let me do was 3.

[Skanky Burns]

I think Ix got to 7 last time by nesting alternate quote tags. Yymv.