See Home->Forum index->User Control Panel->Board preferences->Edit global settings.
There is the “board style” item where you can choose from several ones, and each “style” affects a lot about the layout of the page and even the way how the formatting tags are interpreted.
Being a moderator I have more buttons available on the screen but I also use the oldfashioned silver theme which is just shorter.
Big avatars multilines spacing, white on white, mobile ready behaviour … it’s not for me.
So you had the power to strip the quote from the post that irritated you and warn the user about this bad practice a little more subtle, but instead you decided to post your offtopic rant, as a moderator…
Yes,
I am a moderator who modaretes. Not a full time editor who corrects posts of senders who do not care about posts they post.
Do you teach your kids to keep their rooms tidy or you clean these rooms all the time as they do not care?
EDIT Aug. 10th, 2022:
Seems that Znevna at last got aware of problem too and does his best to educate more and more forum users
pointing in his signature to this particular post bypassing however some crucial preceding posts of the disscussion in this topic.
Medrator should not interfere with posts as users should be sure that THEIR posts are THEIR posts.
It’s a matter of trust. They should be informed but without tampering their information so it implies
answering with “off-topic post” according to Znevna’s standards.
I believe you get much better attention if promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate. May I suggest the following comment or something similar:
"As a general advice please don't quote the whole answer since it makes it harder to follow the essence of the thread". Please read "http://mt/forum/etiquette.."
(btw, is there one?)
Cheers!
With the old theme its easy to see what thread you have posted inn. I do not think you see that at all on the default theme.
Look at the small red star at the post icon on the top post at the “Does Quoting …”
You can see with new style that I have read the post, but not posted in it, for me this is important.
Thx Sindy & others. “silver” theme is better. And reply button on a logical place.
Yes, it’s the best, functional, space saving, doesn’t burn your eyes out, etc. Its only “problem” is that it’s old, it (or something like it, I’m not sure) was default theme since almost twenty years ago, and I can understand that some may want something new, fresh, prettier, but in this case the good old thing still wins.
It’s hard to make a peace not war, isn’t it? 
Do you think that asking “do it better” works better if people DO NOT care as it is easier to not care.
Forum should help us and not to be a course of crawling through the big see of garbage.
Do you know the rule GIGO? Garbage In, Garbage Out
Perfect examples of unneeded quoting:
whole thread https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=168391&p=827031#p827031
I start teaching them, the newbie..
well, I’m more of a shit in, shit out man Chers
Perfect example of quotting … additionaly it is the the example of reported discussion not related to the topic.
Perhaps it’s partly a generational thing; at least generational on the 'net if not by actual age. I’ve been around long enough to recall core storage (just), dial up BBSs on baud rates not measured in kilos (and mega wasn’t even dreamed of), and best of all usenet when it was actually used by people for other than porn and piracy.
I prefer to keep quotes, if they are needed at all for clarity, short and often edit them (carefully so as not to lose context and offend the quotee) to the point I’m replying. A long multiquote makes it so much harder to follow the thread of discussion and wears out my scroll wheel. Often I won’t even read a post with a big multiquote; not even the final reply. I just skip it and move on to the next post unless I really need the information there. Back in the day, with slow speeds, low resolutions and more expensive server storage and bandwidth, it was perhaps far more important and we all worked like that because it was necessary.
There are some forums I use that enforce rules such as limited multiquotes and especially not quoting the post directly above at all. They are easier, quicker and more pleasant to read; a more efficient use of my time.
Of course, we haven’t even mentioned ‘top quoting’ or ‘bottom quoting’ yet, or using (now)old-fashioned SMS-originated abbreviations in posts… those things can start a small war!
As to ‘made for mobile’ layouts, I abhor them. They are another thing we can largely blame google for with their threats of lowering search rankings for websites that aren’t ‘mobile friendly’. It’s a shame that hardly anyone seems able to make a website that functions well on both mobiles and PCs; so many of them are just broken on a PC now.
It’s not a matter of disk space etc. It is a matter of usability and understanding what you read and comment … and respect for others.
Sorry if anyone feels miffed but if you read a post and the next post quotes what you have read 1s ago and the next one quotes quoted posts read 2 s ago. It is not a sitcom show where you are pointed when to laugh. It is a users’ technical forum. I want more information than spacefillers.
How “quoters” are able to read documentation and configure devices If they are unable to remeber what is in the previous post?
There are only two buttons “Post Reply” and “Quote” to send a post.
Why “quoters” tend to quote pressing “Quote” instead of “Post reply”?
P.S.
Trimmed quotes pointing particular subject or code or anything else are OK as you are aware that poster wants to attract our attention.
Over-quoting prohibition is part of netiquette. Netiquette is almost dead as Internet became platform not for engineers and scientists only, but for everyone. As soon as speed of life increased, quality of discussions decreased, traffic costs nothing (and channels are wide), over-quoting become “normal” behaviour, sometimes by mistakes, sometimes because “nobody cares” anymore. Indeed, it’s easier to scroll than report to mods like in good old times.
PS: I did not read posts above, because I even would not want to know what I may read here :))) it’s just a reply to topicstarter.
The overquotes I “love” much are like:
How many fingers do you have?
By the way, if you stand on your head, what do you feel?
Did you try to stop?
8
I.e. the answer is for the first question, while all three are quoted and ignored.
Next one
Now I understand a lot of things…