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Re:The FAA Proposal for Drone Remote ID by kbenson on Thursday December 26, 2019 @03:26PM (#21886450)
Angle brackets don't actually create block quotes here, but if you just put one in front of the long wrapping text people will get the idea. The indent formatting works best for code, as it doesn't wrap and preserves newlines, but on mobile it will cause scrollbars within the comment for the same reason, making it very hard to read. It feels weird to use a single angle bracket for it all because we're conditioned by mail clients to do one per line, but that just doesn't work well here.

Alternatively, italicizing quoted text with asterisks around the block usually works, since the core of what you usually want is just to visually distinguish something you are repeating for context and your own comments on it.

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Re:The FAA Proposal for Drone Remote ID by mikeyouse on Thursday December 26, 2019 @04:00PM (#21886733)
> Alternatively, italicizing quoted text with asterisks around the block usually works, since the core of what you usually want is just to visually distinguish something you are repeating for context and your own comments on it.

Yep, I've found that combining the two works well. Start with an angle bracket, then use the asterisks to italicize and it's readable on mobile/PC and it's clear that you're quoting someone and it's clear what the quoted content is.

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Re:The FAA Proposal for Drone Remote ID by smacktoward on Thursday December 26, 2019 @04:08PM (#21886791)
Even so, it’s silly that people have to invent their own formatting to represent blockquotes when HTML has an element already built into it specifically for that purpose.
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Re:The FAA Proposal for Drone Remote ID by zeta0134 on Thursday December 26, 2019 @07:19PM (#21888026)
Heh, I've seen enough people do this that I assumed the angle bracket actually did something, formatting wise. Now my original post sounds a bit silly. It's very effective. :)
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Re:The FAA Proposal for Drone Remote ID by skyyler on Thursday December 26, 2019 @04:09PM (#21886792)
" Start with an angle bracket, then use the asterisks to italicize and it's readable on mobile/PC and it's clear that you're quoting someone and it's clear what the quoted content is. "

What's wrong with quotation marks?

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Re:The FAA Proposal for Drone Remote ID by HeWhoLurksLate on Thursday December 26, 2019 @04:55PM (#21887150)
"" Start with an angle bracket, then use the asterisks to italicize and it's readable on mobile/PC and it's clear that you're quoting someone and it's clear what the quoted content is. ""

"What's wrong with quotation marks?"

They get messy, quick.

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Re:The FAA Proposal for Drone Remote ID by yellowapple on Thursday December 26, 2019 @09:51PM (#21888750) 

    ----- BEGIN QUOTATION -----
They get messy quick.

    -----  END QUOTATION  -----
How about this?
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Re:The FAA Proposal for Drone Remote ID by macintux on Thursday December 26, 2019 @11:20PM (#21889151)
That doesn't solve the problem of quoting multiple levels of the thread.

>> This is a time-honored way of identifying a grandparent comment.

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Re:The FAA Proposal for Drone Remote ID by yellowapple on Friday December 27, 2019 @12:45AM (#21889494) 

    ----- BEGIN QUOTATION: macintux -----

    ----- BEGIN QUOTATION: yellowapple -----
How about this?

    -----  END QUOTATION: yellowapple  -----
That doesn't solve the problem of quoting multiple levels of the thread.

    -----  END QUOTATION: macintux  -----
Hold my beer :)

    ----- BEGIN QUOTATION: macintux -----
>> This is a time-honored way of identifying a grandparent comment.

    -----  END QUOTATION: macintux  -----
Indeed it is, at least in email and Markdown. However, email quotations also usually include the "On $timestamp macintux wrote:" blurb in front to designate who wrote the quotation.
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Re:The FAA Proposal for Drone Remote ID by HeWhoLurksLate on Friday December 27, 2019 @01:50PM (#21893370)
My eyes hurt now.
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Re:The FAA Proposal for Drone Remote ID by yellowapple on Friday December 27, 2019 @03:34PM (#21894364)
lol, so do mine. I wouldn't suggest this as an actual quoting method, needless to say. More of a thought experiment around what elements we'd need in a well-designed quoting method.
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