When replying to message in the forum, please don't quote the entire message and then add a little bit to the end. News readers are quite capable of displaying the context to the reader. Just quote the bit you are responding to, and then only enough to cue the reader to just what you are responding to.

Some of these threads get quite long, and constantly quoting and thereby reposting it all is completely unnecessary and annoying.

Most annoying is when someone quotes a hundred lines, and just adds:

    I agree

or:

    +1

at the end. It's fine to post "I agree", just don't quote the rest of it. The newsreader is perfectly capable of displaying what you're replying to.

On Saturday, June 30, 2018 14:45:15 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> It's fine to post "I agree", just don't quote the rest of it.
> The newsreader is perfectly capable of displaying what you're replying
> to.

Quoting at least _part_ of the message is highly desirable for those using the mailing list, even it's very abbreviated. Unfortunately, it's not uncommon for e-mail clients to misorder posts when threading them, and if a post doesn't quote anything, it can become very difficult to figure out what on earth the post is replying to.

- Jonathan M Davis

On 6/30/2018 3:04 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> Just quote the bit you are responding to, and then only enough to cue
>> the reader to just what you are responding to.
> Quoting at least _part_ of the message is highly desirable for those using
> the mailing list, even it's very abbreviated.

What I said :-)

On Saturday, 30 June 2018 at 22:06:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/30/2018 3:04 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> >> Just quote the bit you are responding to, and then only
> enough to cue
> >> the reader to just what you are responding to.
>> Quoting at least _part_ of the message is highly desirable for those using
>> the mailing list, even it's very abbreviated.
>
> What I said :-)

Just drop away this annoying quoting by default.

On Sunday, July 01, 2018 03:19:32 Temtaime via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 June 2018 at 22:06:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > On 6/30/2018 3:04 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > >> Just quote the bit you are responding to, and then only
> >
> > enough to cue
> >
> > >> the reader to just what you are responding to.
> >>
> >> Quoting at least _part_ of the message is highly desirable for
> >> those using
> >> the mailing list, even it's very abbreviated.
> >
> > What I said :-)
>
> Just drop away this annoying quoting by default.

Please, no.

1. Most clients are going to quote the entire text of the message that's being replied to, so the only people affected by any attempt to not have the quotes would be those using the web interface.

2. If it didn't quote the original post, it would be really annoying to then actually quote the relevant pieces that should be quoted.

3. If it didn't automatically quote the original post, then a number of people would quickly start not quoting at all, which would cause communication problems any time that a client doesn't thread the messages properly (which definitely happens with some e-mail clients, and I'm pretty sure that it happens with the web interface at least sometimes, but I don't use it often enough to remember for sure). It also would create problems for anyone who doesn't use a threaded view (be that in a newsgroup client, an e-mail client, or the web interface).

4. As I recall, the web interface already warns you if you leave enough of the quote in that it thinks that you're probably overquoting.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Sunday, 1 July 2018 at 03:49:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> 4. As I recall, the web interface already warns you if you leave enough of the quote in that it thinks that you're probably overquoting.

That's right. It also warns you about not quoting at all, along with 6 other rules:

https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/blob/master/src/dfeed/web/lint.d