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Just had a thought today when reading a thread, that some people quote a lot of replies and then cut them up in seperate quotes etc, making a huge post for each quote etc.

I was just wondering, would it be an idea to have quotes minimise themselves at first and then give each person the option to expand each quote within a post as wanted? Maybe leaving just the persons name and date of post quoted visable until the quote is expanded?

It may make for easier reading on the forum as far as i can see, but im sure there will be some who are against this and there may be good reasons not to do this etc..

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that'd add a hell of a lot of clicking, to read a post.

Not really. You would see who the wuote was from. If you wanted to see the content, you would click the quote to expand.

A majority of the time, i dont read the quotes personally, but find myself scrolling down until i get to the actual post itself. Having the quote minimised would save a lot of scrolling and even load times.

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i like them the way they are, it's a descussion forum and if someone is quoting and picking apart someone else's idea they i would like to be able to read what part of the idea easily without having to click on each quote.

back in the old days when people didn't have high speed internet i would undrstand this because it would help the page load faster and you would load more replys per page, but i haven't met anyone who doesn't have high speed internet in the past couple of years so i don't believe it is necessary.

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The only way that I would be in favour of this is if it could be designed that all quotations longer than 5 lines (or so) are automatically condensed/minimized but smaller (more to the point) quotes are left intact. That would discourage people from quoting a wall of text just to address a specific point. It would hopefully prevent people from quoting images too.

That being said, I'm perfectly willing to wait until IPB adds this feature because every hack we add means more potential trouble during the next forum upgrade.

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i like them the way they are, it's a descussion forum and if someone is quoting and picking apart someone else's idea they i would like to be able to read what part of the idea easily without having to click on each quote.

back in the old days when people didn't have high speed internet i would undrstand this because it would help the page load faster and you would load more replys per page, but i haven't met anyone who doesn't have high speed internet in the past couple of years so i don't believe it is necessary.

Its not really so much about load times, but about making the forum easier to read.

The only way that I would be in favour of this is if it could be designed that all quotations longer than 5 lines (or so) are automatically condensed/minimized but smaller (more to the point) quotes are left intact. That would discourage people from quoting a wall of text just to address a specific point. It would hopefully prevent people from quoting images too.

That being said, I'm perfectly willing to wait until IPB adds this feature because every hack we add means more potential trouble during the next forum upgrade.

Oh yeah, i understand what you are saying on the hacks etc.

I also think you bring up a good point regarding the 5 lines or more. Maybe even expanding on this more would be to make it user defined. So they can decide to stop anything from any lines up to 10 lines long.

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I hate such quotes, it's a PIA to read anything, many times you jump in a thread after a few days/weeks/months and all open quotes help a lot.

that'd add a hell of a lot of clicking, to read a post.

QFT

I think it's fine the way it is.

+1

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