[RFC] Quote with link to original post

[Senky]

As I browsed some topics here (and also on the other forums), many times someone quotes previous post just partially. I mean, he quotes just last sentence or so. If someone wants to look at original, quoted, post, it is sometimes really difficult to look for it in whole topic.

I would suggest adding an option to quote BBCode, to state ID of quoted post, which would generate link to that post if defined.

BBCode could be altered like this:

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[quote="Senky",255741]This is quoted text[/quote]

This could make:

Senky wrote:
This is quoted text

Admittedly, post number should be generated, user would have no more job than till now.

And maybe to suggest one more improvement:
Nickname of quoted user can be also changed to link ho his/her profile. So that it would look like this:

Senky wrote:
This is quoted text

[jsebean]

+1 would be nice

[_hsr]

+1 with linking posts that are quoted with the quote button
-1 for the user nickname linking

[callumacrae]

+1 with linking posts that are quoted with the quote button
-1 for the user nickname linking

this, although I'm not a huge fan of the proposed syntax.

[Senky]

...although I'm not a huge fan of the proposed syntax.

It was just an example how it could be done. If you have another idea, just show it

btw, why you are against username linkings? It is really more user-friendly to have links anywhere possible. It can by styled, so noone distinguishes it until he/she hovers over it if this is the problem.

[jsebean]

+1 with linking posts that are quoted with the quote button
-1 for the user nickname linking

this, although I'm not a huge fan of the proposed syntax.

Agreed.

[imkingdavid]

Please don't just say that you don't like the proposed syntax. That is entirely unhelpful. If you don't like it, please propose an alternative.

+1 for the idea. As for syntax, perhaps [quote="username";p=####][/quote]. Personally, I think the entire "User wrote" line should be a link, but that's semantics.

[AliasM2K]

Now that gives me an idea... What about custom bbcodes to identify user and post? Something like

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Checkout this [post=###]post[/post] by [user=###]Alias M2K[/user]

[brunoais]

This RFC already exists:
viewtopic.php?f=108&t=42481
It's stalled until the BBCode refactoring is complete
Search before making new RFC's, k?

[AliasM2K]

Hmm... Ok. By the way, I am not defending myself, but the post you mentioned states mainly about quoting users and linking to the post. What I suggested was using custom bbcodes to link posts and users. Also, the link user bbcode can be used for the mention or thank system, which is already a RFC.