# Quoting vs. Direct Replying: What is proper etiquette?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-vs-direct-replying-what-is-proper-etiquette/26226
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 11, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-vs-direct-replying-what-is-proper-etiquette/26226 "2015-03-11T18:47:52Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2015, 7:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-vs-direct-replying-what-is-proper-etiquette/26226/6 "2015-03-12T07:27:29Z")

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No, this was suggested elsewhere, it’s fine for a simple one-liner chat system, but when you are combining posts with quotes, oneboxes, paragraphs, reply targets, username mentions.. [it becomes extremely complicated to merge them](https://meta.discourse.org/t/combining-multiple-sequential-replies-from-the-same-poster/11845).

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