Wacko McGoose at 17:58, 8 October 2007

Wacko McGoose — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:58:33 GMT

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This fad overused the post-quoting sysytem. Members typed something like:

-[quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote]

This created nested quotes, also refered to as a quote pyramid. Someone in this fad would quote the person in front of them and type nothing else, then the next poster would quote them, and it would continue for a few pages. Francis said that this was overusing the system. After that, quote-pyramid topics were less common. They do still happen occasionally in topics, but as responses to the poster before them, not just as a blank quote.

Fun fact: The biggest quote pyramid was 25+ tiers, created by [[Members/Wacko McGoose | Wacko McGoose]]. He had attempted to make bigger ones, but the quote boxes became too narrow to show. Multi-peak quote pyramids also happened sometimes.

Quote pyramids - Revision history

Wacko McGoose at 17:58, 8 October 2007