• Anything ‘published’ on the web is viewed as intellectual property and, regardless of whether it displays a copyright symbol or not, is therefore copyrighted by the originator. The only exception to this is if there is a “free and unrestricted reuse” statement associated with the work.

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You, yourself, have given the reason over at THR why the quote button was removed here at TFL:
jim in Anchorage at THR said:
Someone would post like 10 pictures and now everyone wants to quote it, making me scroll though the same pictures over and over.
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Folks were quoting long posts and adding a "Me too." to it. One would think that after quoting a long post, they would edit the quote to include only the text they wanted to use, but that just doesn't happen.

Making the quote process a little more difficult than just pressing a button makes the forum threads a great deal cleaner without all the redundant text.

I do agree with you over there that the Xenforo system of using a contracted quote from a previous post is far better than the full quote system vBulletin uses.
 
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