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Posted by: Blakpanther
the only problem is that most people don't take the time to delete the unneeded material...
we call those people lazy.
You've got to balance that when you're thinking about things like this. There may very well be some people who don't want to take the time and/or effort to quote a single post, and I'm fine with that, as long as it doesn't start to interfere with my experience.
The problem is that a feature that automatically takes out that "unneeded material" and replaces it with a text string saying "This post is in reply to: " might detrimentally affect the experiences of everyone else -- you have to take that into account when considering what it'll cost you to cater to the wants of the lazy.
I know that personally, I'd much rather stick with the cascading-quote system we have now -- tying into what I said above, I think that it's much simpler to just erase the parts of a post that you don't want to reply to, whether those parts are a person's comments that are irrelevant to what you're trying to say or even more quotes.
I do not like throwing the word "most" around when talking about people in general, especially here, because I haven't met every single one of the million-plus active accounts on bungie.net and surveyed them all, and I certainly haven't been here nearly long enough to have seen every one submit a post. I will say that there are some people who don't like removing excess material and quotes, but I really don't think that there's enough of that going around to warrant such an addition.
[Edited on 01.02.2008 4:23 PM PST]