I love forums.

You can learn a lot from all the interactions and questions and answers. One of my favorite forums is the Warrior Forum. But even the Warrior Forum suffers occasionally from one particularly maddening ailment.

Someone will post something…sometimes fairly long. And then, the very next poster will quote the entire original post within their reply. This is completely unnecessary and clutters up the thread.

If you’re guilty of this behavior, what are you thinking? You simply do not have to reprint the entire post in your reply. Especially when you’re the second post in the thread!

I know of one forum that polices this kind of  misbehavior and promptly deletes pointless re-quotes and leaves a nice little note about quotation etiquette. If I ever run a forum, that will definitely be included in my forum rules.