(Always strive for perfection ... don't quote extensive posts unnecessarily!)

[MetroMPG]

Found a plug-in that gives users the ability to "collapse" quotes, but it's buggy, no longer supported, and it doesn't save bandwidth.

Not quite what we're after... :P

[t vago]

Originally Posted by brucey

Woah, you like animals too? We should hang out some time.

(I wanted to have an example, but not call anyone out on it.)

Nice animals!

(what about people who put quotes within quotes?)

[brucey]

Originally Posted by t vago

Nice animals!

(what about people who put quotes within quotes?)

I can't hear you, you're not loud enough in parentheses.

[brucey]

Originally Posted by MetroMPG

Found a plug-in that gives users the ability to "collapse" quotes, but it's buggy, no longer supported, and it doesn't save bandwidth.

Not quite what we're after... :P

Oh well, I guess educate is always an option. Just seemed like a much simpler fix to have a vbb plug in.

[FXSTi]

Originally Posted by brucey

I like animals.

Originally Posted by brucey

Woah, you like animals too? We should hang out some time.

(I wanted to have an example, but not call anyone out on it.)

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

On a related note I'll mention again about poster-sized images but even worse is when the damn things get quoted x number of times more.

Originally Posted by brucey

It's when there is a huge post and someone quotes it and says "That's cool!" where I just giggle and think "Efficiency Forum"

I would cite specific examples of this phenomenon, but I don't want to be rude, so I'll leave it up to Frank.

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

On a related note I'll mention again about poster-sized images but even worse is when the damn things get quoted x number of times more.

Originally Posted by brucey

It's when there is a huge post and someone quotes it and says "That's cool!" where I just giggle and think "Efficiency Forum"

I would cite specific examples of this phenomenon, but I don't want to be rude, so I'll leave it up to Frank.

Originally Posted by brucey

Oh well, I guess educate is always an option. Just seemed like a much simpler fix to have a vbb plug in.

Originally Posted by MetroMPG

Found a plug-in that gives users the ability to "collapse" quotes, but it's buggy, no longer supported, and it doesn't save bandwidth.

Not quite what we're after... :P

I agree.

[Piwoslaw]

Originally Posted by brucey

I like animals.

Originally Posted by t vago

Nice animals!

(what about people who put quotes within quotes?)

Me too!

FXSTi, don't make me quote you manually, plz...

EDIT: I'll delete this post within a few days

[FXSTi]

Now for a brief tutorial:

When you quote someone, you will see something like this in the text box:

QUOTE=brucey;302569][IM G]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.aka maihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/485707_10100762628034359_25817901_51698713_1491143 279_n.jpg[/IM G]

[IM G]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/429998_10100682061190959_25817901_51360631_2103008 670_n.jpg[/IM G]

[IM G]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/404637_10100492535826309_25817901_50709120_2038708 596_n.jpg[/IM G]

[IM G]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/313035_10100365261939199_25817901_50117461_1219113 976_n.jpg[/IM G]

[IM G]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/316868_10100328247137159_25817901_49842312_1727138 595_n.jpg[/IM G]

[IM G]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/216689_10100270319504599_25817901_49137714_314212_ n.jpg[/IM G]

I like animals.[/QUOTE

(I inserted some spaces and removed some brackets to make this visible)

Now you can cut away any text that you don't want to appear. In this case all we want to do is remind people that Brucey said "I like animals".

So, you delete all text after the first right bracket "]". This should leave you with something which looks like this.

QUOTE=brucey;302569]I like animals[/QUOTE

except there will be brackets on the outside of that line.

This is what should appear:

Originally Posted by brucey

I like animals

Go ahead, give it a try.
Hope this helps

[botsapper]

...eco-reddit.com?

[brucey]

What's reddit? I'm glad at least I made someone smile.

[Piwoslaw]

We could just clean this thread up, re-title it as "How to, and how not to, reply with quotes" and make it sticky.

And then lock, so that it doesn't temp anyone (evil sneer)...