think before you quote

A lot of good info gets exchanged here on a daily basis, as well as opinions - that's great, even when those posts and replies are long as hell. Hey, don't get me wrong, I get it, sometimes there's no shortcut to getting a point across.

But the page count on many threads could be half what they are if people would stop quoting entire posts. Are you really responding to every statement in a post or are you responding to a general idea? Wouldn't simply addressing the specific poster suffice? A lot of you guys type 1000 word essay responses to 1000 word essay posts, and when you quote those posts, it makes for an exasperating read on handheld devices that don't differentiate twix quote and response, not to mention unnecessarily extending the length of a thread where two posts take up 1 page. A lot of FAQ are actually frequently redundant, because if you do a search-function for the info, several 20 page thread results come up (and most all those are 20% info/ 80% pissing contest). Lots of people are just gonna start their own threads rather than plow through mega-thread jungles.