Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-226878-20140802180830

I certainly believe this to be an issue although I seem to be the only one as the few times I've brought it up, I've been met with opposition. But I believe my opposition simply misunderstands how I define "quote walls".

Quote walls, by my definition, are instances in which a poster hits the quote button for no better reason than to indicate they are responding to an above poster. In my opinion, this is not the purpose of the quote button. The quote button is to be used to indicate specific points in a previous post to which the next poster is touching upon. Posters repeatedly hitting the quote button in response to each other ends up making a larger and larger and LARGER quote wall and it soon becomes that the entirety of the page is nothing but quotes. This is more over an uncommon issue on this wiki as most are good about avoiding this action. But I still see it a lot. Again, this my own definition of a lot.

When I bring this up in individual threads, I occasionally see responses of people responding apologetically despite not knowing what I'm talking about. For example, just recently, someone quoted me directly after I posted about this. They apologized and then went on to write a full paragraph in response. TO BE CLEAR, I don't particularly mind when people quote if they actually have something to say. Leaving a response that is a single word or sentence, by comparison, I find to be completely unacceptable. But I do take issue with quoting the person directly above you. Unless there's something in their post you particularly wish to respond to, in which case, I beg you PLEASE edit the quote so that only that part of the post is highlighted, making the post trimmer. But if you only have a single word or sentence to offer, then please don't hit the quote button, or at least delete the text you're quoting as there is an automatic function that accompanies the quote in that it leaves a link to the post that you're quoting, thus making the text redundant when not quoting multiple posters.

Step one... and done. 