Forum etiquette - double-posting vs separating ideas?

[KisaiTenshi]

But I wanted to ask how is snipping posts makes it feel like the other is seen as an idiot or that their view means nothing? I mean I dont quote someone that I feel that had nothing to say.

That seems overly complicated for those of that use a mobile device, especially when the quote has a button following the OP's name that will take them to the original post. Sure someone could say I am being lazy, but if someone did say that I would say the same since clicking the blue button is just one step, while the method you mentioned has multiple steps.

There's a difference between this:

*snip*

Where it removes the context and the ability to follow the thread

and

*snip*

Where the latter has removed the context to two different replies, but you can still follow the thread. So it doesn't look like you are responding to that user, but rather trying to shut them up. If you can not provide the context from which you are responding, then don't be upset when that user thinks you're being rude.

Personally I prefer this method, even for mobile:
1) Hit Reply with Quote, copy that to the clipboard.
2) Paste that to the device's notepad
3) Do whatever you want to do with it there, write a response. Don't trim the quoted part if you can't get the phone to select the right part, just delete the parts after it and rewrite the end quote tag. Copy this to the clipboard
4) Go back to the tab that the reply is in, 10char it
5) Quickly edit the post again and paste.

This is how I'd prefer mobile users edit things, but whatever, I know Android phones are rubbish...

That has NEVER been the case in the English forums at all, in any shape.

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Just delete everything after the point you want to reply to, and put a newline and "..." to indicate there is more you are responding to, you don't need to post the entire thing, but if you don't have the context, and that person has responded multiple times in the thread, there is no way to follow it, even if you follow the link because users will still not know which thing you're replying to. It looks lazy and rude.

On the desktop I skip steps 2-3 because I just copy the post, 10char it by deleting everything but the first or last line, then edit again and paste it. Once in a while I accidentally hit copy instead of paste and destroy the post, which is why I usually save long posts in notepad.

More to the point, following a quoted link may send people to other threads, stale ones, and that results in necroposting as well.