I have noticed the trend of people removing the attributation from their quotes. What is the reasoning behind this?

Try and kid people that it's your own wit rather than someone else's?

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I usually only see this when someone has had to manually add the "[qu0te][/qu0te]" codes, either because they are nesting quotes, or because they are quotining more than one person in their response.

Some people seem to go out of their way to remove the name which can make it hard to read a thread. I thought there might be some underlying philosophy to it.

Maybe they just miss the button? Someone, who's been here for a while (Lonewulf?), doesn't even use the quote function. His quotes are bolded instead. Personal preference, maybe?

When replying to just a small portion of a long post, it is easier to copy and paste the pertinent part using the "quote" icon in the reply box than to quote the entire post and then delete several irrelevent paragraphs.

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Pghnative has it right, I would think.

If someone is trimming text and responding to just a snippet from the middle using the mouse, windows sometimes insists upon highlighting the entire paragraph (including the tag) rather than just the bit that's been covered.

I suppose someone might think it's easier to let the tag die and then reestablish it later.

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It may also have to do with what the discussion is. Personally, for some funny thread in BABBling, I'm much less careful with attributions than for a serious debunking.

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I may be guilty of just the opposite: of inserting [qu0te][/qu0te]'s and attributing something to someone who is not a member of this forum. For example, in the "Please, help me fight Sitchin! Please!" thread, parallaxicality quotes some unnamed person in italics. When I quoted it, I didn't want anyone to think that parallaxicality wrote that, so I inserted another level of quotes and attributed the statement to "Anonymous Sitchin defender". I think most people who hang out here regularly know that there is no such member of that name.

There is always the risk that I might attribute something to, say, "Attila the Hun" and then find out that there really is a member who has chosen that nickname, in which case I would have to apologize and explain that I meant the historical Attila and not the forum member.

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This never ever happens

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I tend to use the bold for quote because I tend to type out the code as well as the post and it's faster to type [ B ] than [ quote = name of whoever]. It's a habit I picked up off Jay.

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Absolutely, I dare someone to show me a single example!

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Sorry for the name mix-up, PhantomWolf. There are too many lupine screennames around.

Of course it doesn't help that the bulletin board software removes quotes when the quote button is used, forcing users to go back and copy and paste any nested quotes that are needed for establishing the context.

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May I quote you on that?

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This is what I am talking about. Only the actual text in post number 851703 was brought in; the quote to post 851643 that was inside it was not.

The software is making a failed attempt at limiting quote nesting; the result is that users have to restore the quotes, sometimes with flawed results.

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The bar has been lowered for the promotion of ATM ideas; the bar for the acceptance of ATM ideas must remain high.

Is there any way to fix that?

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It's not broken, in my opinion. If you feel the need to provide more than one level of quotation, you should rethink your writing style.

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Sure wish I knew what you were replying to.

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