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we use block quotes to fully display error message on code. If we take the yellow away, how can we see it different? +1
– gbianchi
Commented Feb 19, 2020 at 21:02
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Agree. A lighter shade of yellow would look better, but the proposal might blend in too much with nonquoted text.
– M.A.R.
Commented Feb 19, 2020 at 21:20
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Considering the number of people I see using blockquotes to mark out the actual question they're asking, I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
– curiousdannii
Commented Feb 19, 2020 at 22:53
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I do agree that differentation is a useful benefit of blockquoting (...though people shouldn't use the formatting just to differentiate stuff when it's not actually a quote), and would also oppose removing the yellow background entirely for that reason.
– V2Blast
Commented Feb 19, 2020 at 23:45
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Seeing how some users' answers tend to consist of nothing but huge quote blocks, which I don't consider particularly good answers, I'm afraid reducing the formatting in the proposed way is going to hide that fact and make quote-only answers look like a lot of original prose.
– Christian Rau
Commented Feb 20, 2020 at 10:06
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On some sites it's good to have quotes (even long quotes) in answers i.e. those are good answers (for example), but I still want to easily distinguish what is said about the quote from the quote itself (as stated in Machavity's answer).
– ChrisW
Commented Feb 20, 2020 at 16:50
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Yes, that's the point. I want to be able to distinguish if the answer is full of quotes, especially when I intend to ignore quotes as the additional information they're supposed to be and concentrate on the essence of the answer. Quotes aren't bad of course, but they're not what your answer is supposed to ultimately say. Your linked example is an example for an answer that makes proper use of quotes. But even then it would be quite hard to concentrate on the non-quoted parts.
– Christian Rau
Commented Feb 20, 2020 at 16:56
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I doubt I mind much which background color you choose, but its having a background color helps me read it as a different voice than the poster's, which is good; IMO a sidebar isn't sufficient.
– ChrisW
Commented Feb 20, 2020 at 17:06
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A conventional but not a preferable alternative is to use a different font e.g. italic -- which you'd do if it were black-on-white publishing on paper. On a screen you can keep the (most legible) font and tinge the background color instead.
– ChrisW
Commented Feb 21, 2020 at 10:16
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@curiousdannii: Considering the number of people I see using blockquotes to mark out the actual question they're asking, I'm not sure that's a bad thing. – People will probably still continue to do so and it will still be abuse of formatting and needs to be edited. I don’t think that this solves much.
– Wrzlprmft
Commented Feb 29, 2020 at 9:57
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Maybe I'm a little lost here, but, if the original problem was due to quotation of images, that should be solved by editing the question/answer, not changing the color of the blockquote.
– Marco Aurelio Fernandez Reyes
Commented Mar 11, 2020 at 17:00
@MarcoAurelioFernandezReyes No, there is no other way for users to add borders or background colors to images.
– Mr Lister
Commented Mar 15, 2020 at 8:51
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This is a bad change. Please return blockquotes to what they've been before. In future, before you try to "improve" things, please first speak to people who actually use these things.
– Nick Volynkin
Commented Mar 15, 2020 at 9:24
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I think it looks a lot better than that ugly yellow, but the color should be at least somewhat different from the main text.
– Stormblessed
Commented Mar 30, 2020 at 18:22

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