The sad truth is that the forum isn't well suited for mobile phones. At least this has been said several times.

What you are suggesting will only encourage more and more pyramid quotes, which is so unpleasant. If someone is so lazy editing their posts and quotes, then they have no business or reason posting in the forum.

A whole lot of stress for mobile users, but I don't see this as a very pressing issue. For anyone who prefers using the forum on mobile, it's just a matter of time before they master how to use all tools, even quoting from the same mobile without considering it a stress, just as I do most times using mobile or PC.

Once you have knowledge about how to use the quote, it is very easy to use. As it is easy on desktop, so it is also easy on mobile phones. I also do not think this is necessary. Just one quote button is enough and all you need to do is to know how to quote accurately. It can be hard for newbies but as someone learn and know how to use it, it would become very easy in a way no need for any other improvement than to have new forum software.

Find the actual post by clicking the quoted reply then quote it instead the nested quoted reply. You can alway use quote button then open it in new tab to copy or edit/snip the reply you want, and/or use the "Insert Quote" button while you are in the text editor page.

Solutions are there already, it's just the user's bad habit of posting/quoting.

Good suggestion and maybe it would be better to be able to quote the last reply only instead of the mountain of quotes we see in some threads. Currently there is a userscript that hides such quotes so you can try it as a temporary solution.

There really are some users who are a bit lazy when it comes to removing citations or content of citations that are too much. I think for mobile users, they have a harder time with this. But I sometimes use the forum on mobile and I have the patience to deal with it.

Either way, it can really be a way to minimize this type of situation.

Post your idea in this thread, maybe something can be done: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5503118.0

It's your good suggestion and I hope PowerGlove will step in and do his SMF patch, then theymos will be convinced to deploy it.

EcuaMobi has a user script to do this.
User Script: Automatically remove nested quotes v1.1.1

I agree that pyramid/ nested quotes are very annoying and it's less convenient to quote, then trim unwanted nested quotes on mobile. One interesting point with pyramid/ nested quote is it can help you to see spammers and shit posters. These posters don't care about it, even they are on computers or laptops.

I think it's going to be a lot of hassle and even if it's implemented, people will still need to make edits in their posts even after using the "quote single" button as you suggested. Let me explain why.

I know this can make quoting a bit easier for those who are willing to quote only the last text done by the user they are quoting, but only if the last reply only has one text with no extra elements or multiple quotes. For example:

If you are quoting me but my post has multiple quotes each placed one after the other in this order:


My response


My response

etc.

In such a case, the user will still have to do a lot of editing to remove the portions of the post he isn't willing to respond to, just like how a person would do with unnecessary quotes.

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Another issue is about other added elements in the last post you are quoting. What if I'm quoting you as your post is the last response but your response contains quotes that are added by yourself maybe to add some other information or a reference or anything in general? For example:


My response - I have tried that and below is the result:


Now, if I use the "quote single" button, it might remove the extra quote tags along with its content as well but it isn't supposed to do that because it's a part of the response and isn't a quote from another user that I might not need.

It's laziness that prompt people to quote all the lines of sentence, even when someone respond to user through quote button at first, and the second person respond by quoting everything in context, and you want to respond to the last quote made or respond by the second person, what you need to do, is to highlight the text and cut off the sentence that's not necessary base on your response, but I do see many people who quote everything and respond mostly in gambling section

so quoting everything in the context, for me I think is not right thing to do, because it assumed that you're responding to  everything in the box, and a reader will find it difficult to comprehend your point of views, highlighting the text in the box and cut off the paragraphs that's not useful and left the one you want to Lament should be more comprehensive for reader than quoting everything in the box, nobody will know the exact text you're responding or reacting to.

So, op, we don't need to have two quoting buttons, the provision of the one exists, is serving for multiple purpose, its us that misused the quoting button.

This is a good idea for mobile user since it’s very hard to trim post via small screen if you just want to reply on the selected phrase on the post that already mixed on pyramid post.

I think adding “quote all” button to quote the whole thread when the post is already on pyramid post format is a good idea while the original “quote” button can be use to quote the post only of the poster.