Timeline for Some improvements to blockquotes
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| Mar 30, 2020 at 18:22 | comment | added | Stormblessed | I think it looks a lot better than that ugly yellow, but the color should be at least somewhat different from the main text. | |
| Mar 15, 2020 at 9:24 | comment | added | Nick Volynkin | 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. | |
| Mar 15, 2020 at 8:51 | comment | added | Mr Lister | @MarcoAurelioFernandezReyes No, there is no other way for users to add borders or background colors to images. | |
| Mar 11, 2020 at 17:00 | comment | added | Marco Aurelio Fernandez Reyes | 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. | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 9:57 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft | @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. | |
| Feb 21, 2020 at 10:16 | comment | added | ChrisW | 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. | |
| Feb 20, 2020 at 17:06 | comment | added | ChrisW | 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. | |
| Feb 20, 2020 at 16:56 | comment | added | Christian Rau | 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. | |
| Feb 20, 2020 at 16:50 | comment | added | ChrisW | 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). | |
| Feb 20, 2020 at 10:06 | comment | added | Christian Rau | 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. | |
| Feb 19, 2020 at 23:45 | comment | added | V2Blast | 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. | |
| Feb 19, 2020 at 22:53 | comment | added | 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. | |
| Feb 19, 2020 at 21:20 | comment | added | M.A.R. | Agree. A lighter shade of yellow would look better, but the proposal might blend in too much with nonquoted text. | |
| Feb 19, 2020 at 21:02 | comment | added | gbianchi | we use block quotes to fully display error message on code. If we take the yellow away, how can we see it different? +1 | |
| Feb 19, 2020 at 20:57 | history | answered | Machavity | CC BY-SA 4.0 |