My suggestion is for quotes to automatically embed the quoted post's link within them so that when you click on a quote it takes you to the topic and the post # from where it was quoted.

For example, sometimes there are topics that are many pages long and people begin reading from the beginning and end up continuing the conversation by replying to someone from a page in the middle of the topic. So this person quotes them and because of the way quotes work now you can see the person quoted and their comment, but many times these people are quoting others, so if you wish to follow and understand the complete conversation you have to search many pages which is very tedious especially in large topics. Even if it's within the same page or a page back it's a nice QoL thing since now you wouldn't have to ctrl-f the quote or look for the quoted post by time to continue reading the prior conversation.

My suggestion alleviates the tediousness and allows everyone to easily follow quotes and read the conversation from the end to the beginning. The way I imagine it working is you press the "Quote" button and it automatically embeds a link to the post # similarly to how you used to manually be able to place a link within a quote as seen here in the section "15. Quoting From A Link". However, rather than placing a link it would make the whole upper portion clickable maybe a box similar to the current notification system, but with the quote details instead of the name and also redirecting to the post, not the user.


So, I screenshotted the quote below to create a demonstration. You can see the quote as normal, but if you click on it right now it will take you to the topic and post #.

Since the above is an image, the whole quote is clickable, but if this is added it may be better if only the top part of the quote is clickable where it says Quote (njaguar @ Feb 9 2020 08:10am)


If this is added then it may also be a good idea to differentiate quotes that are embedded with a link and clickable from those that aren't. That can be done by changing the style a bit like the image below which is similar to the notification style.

eh, people should read content before making reply's generally.
I'm not for nor against it but if done I think only the word "Quote" should be clickable in your example not the whole line.

/edit
Also feel like this was suggested before.

This post was edited by King Atrhur on Jul 30 2020 01:35am

Well, there are topics that are hundreds of posts long and even if you read it all it is pretty hard to remember what each and every person said in that topic especially if it's a topic that has been going on for weeks or months where you've read it daily/weekly during that time. So this also allows you to better respond if you're able to follow the quotes back and see who replied to who in the conversation and what they were discussing at the time.

I guess I kind of agree to having only the word "Quote" clickable to prevent misclicks especially when scrolling on mobile.

I also think it may have been suggested before, but I couldn't find a similar suggestion with google.

Bump

I do recall suggestions in the past for making the quotes linked.
Voted yes on it but never seen it bumped back up.
Guess the OP stopped.

Bump

voting yes, but there is a stipulation i'd like to add.
instead of changing the "quote" function, add a new BBcode function to allow hyperlinking of quotes boxes.

a shortcut button could also be added, but it's mainly the BBcode function that we would need.

Bump