Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27723099-20160114224431

I'm not sure if this topic has been adressed before.

We see it often that users keep quoting long quote stacks in a long discussion, even though they are only replying to the post directly above. We have a lot to do to remove the unneeded quotes to shorten the length of a thread. Some users with wikicode knowledge remove all irrelevant inner quotes when quoting. But this problem could easily be solved by changing the behavior of quotes. I see various options:
 * Make quotes collapsible and collapsed by default. This would reduce quotes of any length to a single line if collapsed, but still have the same information if expanded.
 * Ignore the first quote tag when quoting a reply. This option has the problem that it is not very accurate. Some people use the quote class for other things (eg. to get the style), some split up a quote in multiple quotes to reply to each part of a comment individually. In effect that means it's hard to say which quotes are real quotes and which are part of the comment.
 * Don't insert any quote container. The link to the message that was responded to can still give a reader the required information.

Another small style problem is the unneeded newline that is inserted after pressing the quote button. 