The problem is the button “FAR AWAY”.
It loses importance…
The “quote” button appear to be the natural function to write a reply to the newbie
and also from some distracted forum guru (or who ignore it because they don’t bother him the quotes)
and often it is not laziness that does not delete the excess parts in a quotation,
but it appears as perfectly normal that there is the whole quoted piece above …
Near-Solution
add a confirmation popup “you really want quote?” when try to quote…
surely discourages the use of quote than “post reply”
and put the button “post reply” on right place, instead far away from the last post
on unusual and strange position, surely NOT ergonomic
This change might help but not in most of cases. It seems that one of typical Reply abuses is when users hit Reply to a lengthy post just to express their agreement (one-liner). Reducing number of nested quotes wouldn’t help in this case.
OTOH sometimes it is really useful to be able to nest more than one layer of quotes (but indeed not very often).
My view on this matter is that no amount of automated restrictions will make this problem go away (and keep forum usable for discussions), the only feasible way is to enforce certain level of netiquette on users. I’m with @BartoszP on that, I just don’t know if his way of doing it is the best (but I can’t judge, I’m not forum moderator).
If still necessary the 3rd, 4th and 5th layer of quotes,
I have doubts about the intelligence of people who do not remember what they wrote before
or the laziness of going to review the third layer…
Also smile are disabled, but if is needed:
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For me limiting the max nested quote to 2
and
set a message >Please not abuse [OK]< when press the "
Solve the problem because the users are lazy and prefer skip mesage pressing “+ Post Reply” instead…
IMO, the quote feature is very useful and People should learn how to edit quotes so that this capability is used properly. Unfortunately many are too lazy to learn how to use QUOTES properly.
works indipendenlty…