[gnicholas]

FYI you don’t have to include a quote of the entire parent post in your reply. People typically just include quotes when they are responding to a piece of the parent comment, and want to make it clear what they’re responding to.

Thanks for the downvotes — mind explaining why? I have literally never seen anyone do this in the decade-plus I've been here, and thought it would be helpful to mention.

[c22]

I didn't downvote you, but it's probably because your comment added nothing to the conversation. We're already down here at the bottom of the page, we already slogged through the gratuitous inline quote, and then there's you telling us something irrelevant we already know. And now I'm here making it even worse. Sorry.

[gnicholas]

If you already knew, the comment wasn’t for you!