Forum Software Option to Reduce Multi-Quotes?

[Dave in Green]

On many of the other forums on which I participate, when you reply to a post by including the quoted post you're replying to, it only adds the comments of the most recent poster to your post.In other words:* One person makes a post.* A second person replies quoting the original post, so both the original and the response show up in the second post.* When a third person replies to the second post, the forum software only quotes what the second poster posted and not the original post.This is a great way to keep quoted posts from growing into massive, repetitive monsters.I wonder if the software ZN.O uses has this option available to be set up by one of the site administrators?

[Doug Snyder]

On many of the other forums on which I participate, when you reply to a post by including the quoted post you're replying to, it only adds the comments of the most recent poster to your post.In other words:* One person makes a post.* A second person replies quoting the original post, so both the original and the response show up in the second post.* When a third person replies to the second post, the forum software only quotes what the second poster posted and not the original post.This is a great way to keep quoted posts from growing into massive, repetitive monsters.I wonder if the software ZN.O uses has this option available to be set up by one of the site administrators?

I am sure the guys in charge of the software will love to hear from us about proposed modifications But here are two from me: 1. I tried to highlight a section from a post and click reply. I was hoping only the highlighted part would be drawn into my post. This would be a nice feature. But...I am obviously doing something wrong so I apologize now if there is something that works that I am not aware of. I plan to play with the software on Sunday to see if I can figure it out (baby tomorrow so I will be out of action for a while)2. I like DIG suggestion but one other may work too. Rather than have each post listed in entirety...collapse all but the last. If someone wanted to see the collapsed post...they could just double click it and would either expand the post or take them to the original post.OK That is my 2 cents. ZNO does a good job with the software. I do think it is very user friendly.

[Dave in Green]

Doug, as you discovered, you can't simply highlight in someone else's post what you want to quote in your response. What you have to do is go through and manually edit the quote to cut out all the parts that you're not directly responding to. Different people do this differently. Some include the entire post but use bold on the section they're directly responding to. I think it's cleaner to do it the way I do it, by manually editing out what I'm not responding to, include five dots before and after the quote I'm addressing, and post it like this:

..... 1. I tried to highlight a section from a post and click reply. I was hoping only the highlighted part would be drawn into my post. This would be a nice feature. But...I am obviously doing something wrong so I apologize now if there is something that works that I am not aware of. I plan to play with the software on Sunday to see if I can figure it out (baby tomorrow so I will be out of action for a while) .....

It's a lot of work to go through, but I think it benefits everyone to try to cut out all the clutter.The worst problem, in my opinion, is when someone quotes a post with 10 other post quotes in it. That's the main thing I'm trying to address here.Obviously, it would make it much easier for everyone if the software had options to take some of this manual editing load off of forum members.