Quoting might look temping on first glance but i think it encourages harsher argumentation and pointless counter-replies explaining every way someone thought of

Quoting might look temping on first glance but i think it encourages harsher argumentation and pointless counter-replies explaining every way someone thought of something when they wrote their first post. They are more personal and lead to things taken out of their context and "thats not what i really meant if you read the rest of my post". Looking at HN discussions today it has very few of these, in fact you hardly every see the parent counter-replying to someone opposing his argument. Instead often others reply with a different perspective or the discussion dies because why argue with a troll. Maybe even the lack of quoting is a big contributor to the healthy discussions here.