STOP 'Quote post'- To Everyone Who use "Quote" Most of the time

[Talk merit]

Quotes are fine if they are short. It's the long ones with embedded images that are the problem. You can also use the author tag to provide attribution. for example.

I still believe it is wrong to consider age, ethnicity, rank, or inside leg measurement when considering whether to award merits. Content is king, and presentation is the queen. If you marry the two, then you have a prince of a post.

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[The Sceptical Chymist]

Quotes are fine if they are short. It's the long ones with embedded images that are the problem. You can also use the author tag to provide attribution. for example.

Yep, yep, yep.  Early on I think I probably was just as guilty as anyone else of quoting huge blocks of text, but as of late I've realized how unnecessary that is, and in some cases counterproductive.  I've definitely learned to quote essentially the part of a post I'm replying to.  If it's a short post I'll quote the whole thing out of laziness, but I agree with OP that there are some folks who go overboard in quoting things unnecessarily, and it just looks horrible and makes for much scrolling. 

Particularly egregious is when someone quotes the OP of a signature campaign in the services section just to write a one word reply.  That drives me nuts.

[Jet Cash]

That's interesting. I gave my post it's own subject title, and when you quoted my post, it took that title for your post, and not the thread title. I didn't realise that SMF did that.

[illiki23]

Please stop unnecessary quote comments

Everyone on this forum should be aware of making this forum more better.
I'm overlooking some users are using unnecessary "quote" option when it's really don't need. This makes a thread looks messy and spammy to me (probably to everyone). Also, it's very irritating to read these comments with a huge "quote".
Usually, when we reply to a thread, it should mean the original post. So, there is no need to quote the original post unless it has something to mention. If need to quote a few lines, we can do that. Why should we quote a full original post? Useless and irritating. Here is a recent example of this kind of comments, and here is another one.

Need reference to good/perfect use of quote while giving comments? Here is one good example, take a look. Here is another good example.

Note: My intention is not to hurt any individual user. All reference found at random.
Hope this post reduce the number of the focused user's behavior.

We remove the divs with the 'quote' class when scraping user's post data and performing analytics.  It would not be a far fetch to write a browser extension which does this for viewers.   Though sometimes you might actually want to see the quote in context.

[Emilyp]

The quote stuff is really annoying. It makes a thread look very long and someone looking for quick replies will find it difficult to navigate as quoted posts is lays everywhere.

[TheUltraElite]

Is this universal ? I was an above average student and I do not think that such thing was taught to us ever.

Some things are not taught like that in school or so but become habits if you try on your own. But then again since I am a neat freak myself I do it at times to mark notes and stuff with highlighted points. Something like marking some special stuff in a wall of text.

Forum etiquette are quite rare especially on a free forum accessible to everyone from different parts of the world. Again, this can be subjective, something considered cool at some place may be offensive to members from a certain place.

Actually the reply button is used to reply to the topic on the OP. If there are multiple replies before your reply is going to come, you can use the quote function to reply to several people in a single post and prevent multiple "bump" posts one after the other.

The quote stuff is really annoying. It makes a thread look very long and someone looking for quick replies will find it difficult to navigate as quoted posts is lays everywhere.

Maybe you need to look beyond your shitposting quota of the day and learn a few things on how to talk in the thread with etiquette and then come back? Might even fetch you some merits in future.

[Welsh]

Is this universal ? I was an above average student and I do not think that such thing was taught to us ever.

Yeah I think so. Have you not ever read a book and was told to pick specific points and give your opinion on them? This is a skill which is almost always needed in university but, from my experience was taught well before this stage. It's vital when reading a large text to identify the statement and respond to it.

Maybe you've been given instructions by your boss and he's included a lot of jargon within it or has generalized and his instructions aren't role specific. You would likely want to identify which instructions apply to you and therefore you highlight these to make it more clear to yourself.

This was drilled into us right through comprehensive school. I can't answer from those who haven't been to school.

[DooMAD]

While I do agree with the general idea, I also wouldn't want it to go to the opposite extreme.  It's possible to quote too selectively, to the point where one sentence could be taken out of context and the intended meaning of the overall paragraph can be distorted or lost.  I try to keep quoted text to a sensible length, but at the same time, I don't want to ignore any overarching points being made by the person I'm responding to.