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Re:Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he s... by germinalphrase on Saturday April 21, 2018 @07:49PM (#16894012)
Judging by the frequency with which this issue is complained about, it is -- apparently -- an impossible problem to solve.
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Re:Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he s... by sjwright on Saturday April 21, 2018 @10:51PM (#16894469)
It makes sense to me. A formalised quoting mechanism is a recipe for everyone quoting everyone else, resulting in 50-70% of the words on screen being redundant and pointless.

This is par for the course in most other forums.

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Re:Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he s... by germinalphrase on Sunday April 22, 2018 @12:40AM (#16894738)
I'm sympathetic to what you're saying; however, quoting is still happening – just in a manner than leaves 50-70% of the text annoyingly difficult to read on mobile.
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Re:Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he s... by sjwright on Sunday April 22, 2018 @11:37AM (#16896596)
Absolutely. But by providing no formal mechanism, quoting is used extremely sparingly. Which is good.

(The mobile formatting issue wouldn't happen but for a few rare crazies who attempt to hijack the wrong syntax.)

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Re:Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he s... by matte_black on Saturday April 21, 2018 @08:49PM (#16894166)
Not with a little bit of JavaScript.
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