"deleting pointless full quote of last post" Options

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I'm really annoyed by this. One moderator loves to pointlessly delete quotes from user posts. Please stop. It makes no sense. It doesn't help anybody and actually hurts.
Quoting previous posts is a clear reference to which post I am replying to. And when somebody doesn't read whole topic but only skims through it, it allows to go only forward w/out backsearches "what did he mean"

[greynol]

...and my message was meant for everyone, not just you.

In case I didn't make sense earlier:
When anyone edits a post, additional space will be appended at the bottom, provided the post is more than just a few lines. IOW, if you edit remove a single-line quote, the edited post may consume more space than the original post, kinda defeating the purpose.

I'm certainly not going to go out of my way to add quotes when they aren't there, just as I'm not going to edit every single post that has a quote that I don't like; ignoring the fact that there will always be posts that will go overlooked. I will sometimes take it upon myself to fix botched quotes when I catch them, however.

My time is better spent keeping this forum free from spam.

This post has been edited by greynol: Oct 28 2011, 21:33