Mark quoted text in the archive with a colored background to show that it's quoted
 

Nick wrote elsewhere over a year ago:

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Originally Posted by Nick http://vb.ma7room.com/images/buttons/viewpost.gif
Currently, quoted text in the archive has no special identification; it just flows with the rest of the post. This makes it confusing to follow threads in the archive.
I understand that the archive is supposed to be for search engines, but I think some sort of distinction would be nice, because often, Google's results are threads from our archive. So when a guest goes to read the thread, they get confused.


Nobody from vBulletin Solutions Inc. ever replied. And this is still an issue. For example, see Dody's second post at http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/archi.../t-332450.html -- it includes quoted text, but vBulletin doesn't tell the reader that the text is quoted. Here, it's only one line of quoted text, but in forums where people often quote half a dozen lines of text or more, it gets frustrating to reread those lines over and over.

Dear staff: what do you think?