Why do people quote OP?

[Xaylir]

You know what grinds my gears?

When someone quotes a huge OP. Or any OP for that matter. There is no need for it.
Maybe someone can help me understand? As far as I know, its a waste of space.

[DLCseller]

I think they wanted to increase their words count because of signature campaign and I think this should move to Meta.

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

Sometimes you want to respond to a particular point in the post...

As far as I know, its a waste of space.

What do you mean waste of space?

[everaja]

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People quote OP because they want to respond to him.
you can always snip the quoted words like i did to save the space and help forum to be Lite.

I think they wanted to increase their words count because of signature campaign and I think this should move to Meta.

There can be issue but i dont think signature campaign count the quoted words if any campaign do let me know...

Quoting is not mere waste it is required to inform when you answering or questioning two people in a single post as i did.

[ahmedjamal1998]

I think they wanted to increase their words count because of signature campaign and I think this should move to Meta.

I can't understand this part?

Hmm,
Who told you that sig campaigns pay more for more words 

[Gleb Gamow]

You know what grinds my gears?

When someone quotes a huge OP. Or any OP for that matter. There is no need for it.
Maybe someone can help me understand? As far as I know, its a waste of space.

I concur! People, please stop practicing this practice. 

You know what grinds my gears?

When someone quotes a huge OP. Or any OP for that matter. There is no need for it.
Maybe someone can help me understand? As far as I know, its a waste of space.

Quote it twice! 

[n2004al]

You know what grinds my gears?

When someone quotes a huge OP. Or any OP for that matter. There is no need for it.
Maybe someone can help me understand? As far as I know, its a waste of space.

I'm an old member of this forum and have a high rank on it. I made to many posts and read to many others. In some of them (like here) I have read these two words: "OP". Here I see that there is a entire thread destined to these words. Can someone please explain me what is an OP?

Sorry for my ignorance.

Thanks! 

[Gleb Gamow]

You know what grinds my gears?

When someone quotes a huge OP. Or any OP for that matter. There is no need for it.
Maybe someone can help me understand? As far as I know, its a waste of space.

I'm an old member of this forum and have a high rank on it. I made to many posts and read to many others. In some of them (like here) I have read these two words: "OP". Here I see that there is a entire thread destined to these words. Can someone please explain me what is an OP?

Sorry for my ignorance.

Thanks!  

Original Post or Original Poster, normally the former. See #4: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=op

You know what grinds my gears?

When someone quotes a huge OP. Or any OP for that matter. There is no need for it.
Maybe someone can help me understand? As far as I know, its a waste of space.

Example: The above is the original post of this thread, but please refrain from quoting it.  

  <-- This is a smiley. A smiley comes in many flavors.

Tomorrow, they'll be a pop-quiz on this forum. MAKE SURE YOU STUDY FOR THE EXAM!

[n2004al]

Thank you! As you can see I have studied already. No quote for the OP in this post !!!  Even I think that sometime sthe quote for the OP or previous post is necessary to understand better what the author want to tell.

For example if I want to answer to a post previous the last one that is posted.

[Lauda]

There is nothing wrong with that if a person uses the right formatting. What bugs me is when people quote 5-10 quoted posts. It just looks ridiculous and takes too much space.
When replying to certain parts I just use '-snip-'  which signals that I've removed parts of the post. I quote often but I try my best to make it look decent.

[KWH]

You know what grinds my gears?

When someone quotes a huge OP. Or any OP for that matter. There is no need for it.
Maybe someone can help me understand? As far as I know, its a waste of space.

May times it is done so the OP can't be changed without notice. Useful in the Selling and Loan sections or where someone is spreading BS and forget what they have posted.
So, yes, there is a need for it and you are not paying for any wasted space.
You can <snip> a long post if you feel the need to save on your word count bill. 

[pattu1]

You know what grinds my gears?

When someone quotes a huge OP. Or any OP for that matter. There is no need for it.
Maybe someone can help me understand? As far as I know, its a waste of space.

Sometimes, OPs are edited.
If you quote the OP, your reply doesn't look meaningless.

[Finchy]

Why do people make stupid unfunny troll posts like this:

For those of you that don't know what a swatting is,
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=swatting


Basically, I am ripped. Yup. I make GAINZ bro. I am the type of guy that will steal your girlfriend, just by looking at her.
She'll come to me. You might to hours of work to get in her pants. Me? Nah bro. I just flash my biceps and she'll be all over me.

I am probably the only ripped bitcoiner HAHA.

Anyways, the SWAT team broke through my back door (glass), I looked over, thought it was a burglar, and tackled the guy.
Flat out tackled. Like I said, I am ripped with gainz, so i took this scrawny cop down NO ISSUE.

They threatened to taze me, so i let up on the guy. They searched my house and found nothing except for my gym gear. What a bunch of losers!
Also, my family has connections to the FBI, so we found the guy that SWATted me, and he was arrested. He was nothing but a scrawny loser HAHAHAHAH. He was jealous of my gainz most likely.

Be careful putting your info online!

? It is kinda pointless quoting the entire op most times though, but sometimes it's necessary but better to directly address certain points rather than the entire lot.

[GotaPauj]

I think OP, is standing for original posted the member that opened or created the thread, not bad OP

[g3rszpi]

You know what grinds my gears?

When someone quotes a huge OP. Or any OP for that matter. There is no need for it.
Maybe someone can help me understand? As far as I know, its a waste of space.

Longer post = bigger attention xd

[Gleb Gamow]

You know what grinds my gears?

When someone quotes a huge OP. Or any OP for that matter. There is no need for it.
Maybe someone can help me understand? As far as I know, its a waste of space.

May times it is done so the OP can't be changed without notice. Useful in the Selling and Loan sections or where someone is spreading BS and forget what they have posted.
So, yes, there is a need for it and you are not paying for any wasted space.
You can <snip> a long post if you feel the need to save on your word count bill. 

You know what grinds my gears?

When someone quotes a huge OP. Or any OP for that matter. There is no need for it.
Maybe someone can help me understand? As far as I know, its a waste of space.

One could also change the font size.

[Shibashi Dogemoto]

You know what grinds my gears?

When someone quotes a huge OP. Or any OP for that matter. There is no need for it.
Maybe someone can help me understand? As far as I know, its a waste of space.

they do it to make the post looks longer and more constructive, of course

if you quote someone it looks like you are contributing to the community by answering or commenting what others say, too

[yummyransom]

I think they wanted to increase their words count because of signature campaign and I think this should move to Meta.

It's so confusing. What is this all about? You mean the that they increase their words ?

[Sourgummies]

I quote op in long posts when it looks like replies have gone off topic or I do not want the person above thinking I am talking to them

[nekochan05]

when the thread got so much pages already..
i think more easy to reply what about OP said when we have qoute OP first..
and when we read reply with qoute, its will show us the relevant topic directly (without read any qoute before)