Re: [Pan-users] Re: how to see quoted text

[Joe Zeff]

Duncan wrote:
> Tamas K Papp <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on
>  Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:01:54 +0200:
>
> > Maybe it would help if users could either
> >
> > - click on the green text, making it expand to the quoted text (and
> >   clicking again would mute it, etc)
> >
> > - right click on the green text, which would pop up a menu which has
> >   expansion as an option
> >
> > The first option could work on a block-by-block basis, ie not expanding
> > all quoted text, just the block the user has clicked on.
>
> Many people get confused when they accidentally hit "q" as their first 
> acquaintance with this feature.  You're not the first and surely not the 
> last.

What I want to know is why anybody ever thought that muting quoted text 
was a Good Idea in the first place?  All it really does is remove all 
context from posts that are replies to other posts.  For that matter, 
once I'd turned that off I also turned off displaying different levels 
of quoting in different colors, and such things because I consider them 
pointless.