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Author Topic: The Quote boxes infinity Mirror problem - Can it be discouraged?  (Read 1273 times)

Koltar

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In the D&D Movie thread and several others people are doing so many 'quote' or 'quote boxes' that wind up being layered on top of each other and looking like an 'Infinity Mirror'. This makes those threads almost unreadable and near impossible to follow any discussion.

 Is there a way to discourage this? Or cut down the number of layered quotes or inset quoting?

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Re: The Quote boxes infinity Mirror problem - Can it be discouraged?
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2022, 12:40:18 PM »
How else are you supposed to build an evidence trail to incriminate the other poster in Table-Top RPG Court?

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Re: The Quote boxes infinity Mirror problem - Can it be discouraged?
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2022, 09:24:46 PM »
In the D&D Movie thread and several others people are doing so many 'quote' or 'quote boxes' that wind up being layered on top of each other and looking like an 'Infinity Mirror'. This makes those threads almost unreadable and near impossible to follow any discussion.

 Is there a way to discourage this? Or cut down the number of layered quotes or inset quoting?

- Ed C.

I agree with this Klingon.

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Re: The Quote boxes infinity Mirror problem - Can it be discouraged?
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2022, 02:27:48 PM »
I'm one of the participants. Sorry about that. I will try to not do that anymore. I agree, it makes things difficult to read, and should have remembered that when I was quoting all those boxes.