Any progress on making it impossible to quote the opening post?

I don't believe a Chromebook doesn't have a copy and paste function.

And like I said upthread, not everyone is using a device capable of it.

No, because they can simply press quote currently so no need to do it. But if this function of quoting OP is removed, posters may well choose to do that instead.

No, because it's a relatively new feature and before it was introduced nobody cut and pasted the op n the first reply and posters did not repeatedly cut and paste the OP before replying.

*Have you considered the fact people can simply copy, paste and bold any opening post if MN disable quote OP function?

Not worth disabling it, imo*

I've been on MN for two decades and I haven't once seen a poster copy and paste the op in the first reply. Nor have I seen poster after poster cutting and pasting the opening post.

I don’t mind it now - it’s quite good at weeding out the idiots.

If someone quotes the whole huge post near the start of the thread I always just scroll and don’t read, it’s always the case that the poster will just be saying something completely inane.

Oh right. I only really use the app so can't remember what could be done on a laptop

I can't do that on my Chromebook.

Not necessarily, no. Especially not on threads with hundreds of posts, and where the OP has also posted updates.

Presumably poster wanted to quote part of first post to show she was actually replying to that rather than a later post. Threads often change dramatically as they progress.

I suppose removing the option is better than people complaining about it on a thread to a poster, who may be blind or partially sighted.

How is it making it more difficult for people who use accessibility software to remove a function people don't like? It just means that poster wouldn't have done what she did by accident as the facility wouldn't have been there to use.

It's not too bad if the original post was short, eg only one paragraph, but some posts are almost essays and, yes, it is a pain in the arse when posters keep quoting long posts in their entirety. I've seen threads where a single page of posts only has about 6 posts because most of them contain a repeat of a long, multi-paragraphed post. You scroll through the whole length of the page to find a handful of comments, most of which haven't added to the discussion.

I ask again, does the placement of the Quote icon make it too easy for people to automatically select it to reply, regardless of whether they actually want to quote the post, and would moving the Add Post icon to first place reduce the use of the Quote function?

I was reading a thread when another poster was 'told off' for quoting the entire first post. The poster apologised and said she was blind and had not worked out how to just quote part of the original post using her software.

Do we really need to make life more difficult for people who are struggling to use the site? I simply could not care less if everyone quotes the original post if it makes it easier for everyone to use the site.

Edited for stupid typo

If people want to quote it does it really matter?

Not sure what was so hilarious about what I wrote. If an extra second of scrolling is your biggest problem in life, you're doing pretty well. It's not for you to police how other members use the site.

Anyway, here's your OP, just to refresh everyone's memories!

But you can. Just copy and paste the bit you want to quote and use the @ function. Simple 😁

I've noticed people are getting a lot better at copying and pasting sections or sentences and emboldening them, rather than the whole post, so it is becoming more normalised behaviour not to over-use the quote feature.

It's what we all used to do before the quote feature was added. And quoting a quote doesn't work on the app so for that it's still the only way.

I've noticed people are getting a lot better at copying and pasting sections or sentences and emboldening them, rather than the whole post, so it is becoming more normalised behaviour not to over-use the quote feature.

While waiting for your tech solution MNHQ could you, in the interim, put in bold letters at the top of the thread

Please don't requote the Opening thread or you risk being flamed by the vipers

or some such witty remark. Sometimes people just do it automatically and yes it's very annoying!

Probably what's really needed would be for the quoted post to show in a collapsed form with say just the user name and first line showing so you could choose whether to scroll by or expand it if you wanted to remind yourself of its contents.
I'd guess that's harder to implement though I'm sure I've seen it elsewhere for decades.

Every single time someone starts a thread on this someone does that in the first reply, it's absolutely side splitting ! 🙄

I'd be on board with this feature. It makes some posts completely unreadable. I don't know why people would need to go back and refer to the opening post if a thread was long. You don't have to reply if you can't remember what they are posting about.

I used to read the threads like a conversation.

Yes please do this, so frustrating when people keep quoting a long OP. Scroll, scroll, scroll...

I would love it if there were restrictions like this on using the quote facility. People overuse it to a ridiculous extent, and quoting the opening post is particularly daft.

If you need to indicate who you are replying to, just use the @ tool. That's why it is there!!!
If you need to highlight particular words that you are responding to, quote the post by all means (if it is short) or cut-and-paste the relevant words like we all used to do before the quote tool was introduced. It isn't hard!!!