Reopen: Default quoting behaviour cannot quote code.
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Continuing the discussion from Default quoting behaviour cannot quote code.:
This is something we will come back to after V1, but right now, the intention is for quotes to be almost exclusively plain text. Obviously links work in quotes.. but quotes are not designed to carry formatting beyond the most basic kind.
The intention may be for quotes to be almost exclusively plain text, but the bug is that if you try to quote a post containing code you can't because the quote ends prematurely.Quotes aren't designed to carry formatting? Great, strip out the formatting. Seems like a valid way to fix this bug.
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Seems like an odd intention anyway. By stripping out formatting you can actually loose a lot of information from the quoted post. Formatting can convey a lot of information. Stripping it out when quoting is like the automated equivalent of misquoting someone.
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Formatting can convey a lot of information. Stripping it out when quoting is like the automated equivalent of misquoting someone.
@codinghorror is
a Nazi dictatora genuinely nice guy.
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@codinghorror is a Nazi dictator a genuinely nice guy.
Now I'm just confused ...
Edit: @codinghorror, here is an example of why stripping formatting from quotes is a bad idea.
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What, can't a Nazi dictator be a nice guy?
Ahhh! Burn it! Burn it with fire! And throw the ashes in a vat of acid!
Sorry panic attack. That was a really freaky image.
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Not anymore. I've given up the draconic role play.
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Or any old pyro.
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Is a "quote" that's different from the source really a quote?
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I will give @ben_lubar two dollars if he comes to my house.
Well, it does say
quote
before and after it, but they're in brackets, so I dunno.
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"quote"
Well, it does say quote before and after it, but they're in brackets, so I dunno.
/"quote"Got it.
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Is a "quote" that's different from the source really a quote?
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We need [paraphrase] tags.
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Is a "quote" that's different from the source really a quote?
See, that's the question. Since Discourse strips out formatting from "quotes" are they really quotes anymore?
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Let's tag @codinghorror and @sam again, just for kicks. Maybe they'll show up here one day.
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And then you could maybe eat @codinghorror? Please? Pretty please?
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Wasn't @the_dragon done with the dragon role play thing? I seem to remember him releasing @presidentsdaughter, even.
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Correct. And I'm not really into the whole cannibalism thing.
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I dunno, I've been at a conference for most of the last two days and am feeling fairly weary so I haven't exactly been firing on all thrusters... not that I do that anyway.
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I dunno, I've been at a conference for most of the last two days and am feeling fairly weary so I haven't exactly been firing on all thrusters... not that I do that anyway.
Bleh, I feel that way without the conference.
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