to find the Mumsnet quote function incredibly tedious as it's so overused?

Hard disagree. I don’t want to scroll back trying to find out what people are responding to.

I was just going to say the same.

On my phone, if a quote is longer than 4 lines, the quote box only shows the first couple of lines and then there is a little clicky link which says 'show more'.

It saves so much room as my page is not filled up with huge long quotes.

I presumed everyone has this.
Could you ask MNHQ how to arrange your settings, so it works the same?

It’s no longer possible to cut and paste a section of a post like it used to be so it’s quite a whole post or nothing. On the app anyway

I disagree it helps me to keep track of the conversation. The quote itself has a different background so it’s easy to just skip over if you don’t want to read it. Plus long quotes get hidden behind the ‘show more’ button so it’s not like you’re having to scroll past massive bodies of text.

I don't mind it, (people quoting posts,) but I wish Mumsnet would find a way to shrink quoted posts down (like they do with the OP's first post.) So that you only see the first 8 lines maybe...

I HATE it when someone posts a post and it's really long (like 50-70 lines long or something,) and someone quotes it - as it just makes the thread annoying to read. It's especially bloody annoying when someone quotes a LONG post that has only just been posted. (Especially when someone quotes the long post immediately after it!) Like, whhhhyyyyyy?! 😖

I prefer to quote

theres a simple fix though which is to make the quoted part super short, like they do with the op

also, by bringing back the laugh emoji!!

Exactly, especially if the poster youre answering or disagreeing with has had many replies! It makes sense to quote their post rather than their name. I hate when a name is used, have to scroll back perhaps 20 pages to find the post being referred too - nope.

Reddit is terrible formatting with it's arrows and sections all split up going in different directions. I prefer the linear format of mumsnet.

You can do this. Copy the part you want to quote, then paste it with a * at the beginning or end.

Quoting posts is much more preferable to @'ing people. On a long thread, who can remember who said what when.

This thread just proves that people will literally moan about anything and everything.

Quoting is useful but it should be possible to choose to quote part of a post as so many posts are so long. I agree Reddit is better formatted.

YABU I prefer the quotes because I like to see who the poster is referring to. It's really annoying in a long thread when someone says something like " '@ poster' that's terrible, I can't believe you your husband did that to you, what did your parents say" and you have no idea what the husband did, (or forget what it was) so you have scroll search back to find out what the poster is referring to that the other poster said. It really irritates me. I prefer quotes because then and there you can see what they are referring to and the response. I think it should be a rule that must quote, in fact. Otherwise it makes the thread unreadable or at least hard to keep up with.

ETA: I wouldn't mind if they changed the quote function so you didn't have to quote the entire post, but just the bit/s you are referring to.

Before this app update, you could just copy and paste parts of someone’s post but you can’t do that anymore which is really annoying, so have to quote their whole post! Why is that!?

I much prefer a reply with a quote so I can understand the context of the reply, rather
than then having to flick back to find the name of the poster they’re replying to, to be able to read the original comment to then understand the reply.

It’s very difficult to follow multiple conversations and points on this forum due to the way it’s styled.

The Reddit approach where you can have multiple replies to comments appearing below is much better

I won’t stop doing it. It provides needed context.

I am always a bit mortified when I write a 3,000 word essay as a reply and someone quotes the whole thing I mean, I'm appreciative that they liked my post enough to want to respond personally to it, but I always feel a bit bad for everyone having to scroll an extra 3 feet.

I feel that quotes ought to be collapsible like the OP on page 2+, or it would be good if you could quote just part of someone's post, even if this had some kind of marker to show it's a partial quote (to prevent people taking PPs out of context). And it would be good if the quote included a direct link to that exact post because sometimes it happens within the context of another discussion and it's not always fully threaded, so you have to look for the timestamp and awkwardly search back.

Sometimes quoting is helpful, esp if responding to something much further back, sometimes it's unnecessary and clutters the thread a bit. Overall I don't mind that it was added, but I do prefer some of the older ways of doing it such as copying and pasting a bit of someone's post, referring to their name, or just continuing the discussion if it's a slow enough moving thread, because the context makes it clear what you're replying to. I know C&P can be tricky on phones, though.

The only time I find it annoying is when someone quotes a post and just writes ' This' underneath it.

I wish there was a way to easily quote part of a post (other than copy and pasting, which means you can't see who originally posted).

My main gripe with quotes is people who quote a long post to respond to a single sentence of it.

I agree - particularly when a response can be a long way down the thread as it means having to scroll back up to find it... particularly if a poster has made a load of posts and you want to know what the response is about.

(Edited to add the second half - clicked too soon).

I prefer the quote as I don’t have to scroll back, sometimes pages, if I want to see what they’re replying to.

I think the problem with the methods you suggest over quoting is that it leaves posters open to be misrepresented and taken out of context.
So I might say "I respect people's rights to eat what they like. I've found for me a vegan diet is better healthwise" and i get back
"So @Gap you think that we should all be vegan because 'a vegan diet is better healthwise' Tell that to my GP, I'd be dead because of my food allergies. Typical vegan telling other people what to do"
Unless people scroll back to look at my post, there it stands as though I'm a militant vegan with no respect for other people's needs and preferences.

It gives the context to the post, so if a poster is replying to a particular comment, that is clear.

It wouldn't be so clear without it, would it? Losing that function would be detrimental to clarity.

What's the problem here for you - surely you can just gloss over the quote if you don't want to read it, and skip to the new comment? Can't take you more than half a second.

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