Yes, quotes of quotes of quotes do not work really well.
Unfortunately, a reader will not know what you are referring to, especially as it is on another page.
You see discussions can go pretty quick off-topic. Usually it starts pretty slow, without correction the thread heads into the wrong direction.
As thread owner, it is your duty to do the corrective actions. Other can do that as well, but you are the chairman of your own threads.
This can be:
- ignore the off-topic - just continue on-topic
- post a comment with the quoted comment stating it is a different topic and does not belong to your thread.
- report posts that continue to go off-topic. The moderation team will help you.
If you really want to follow an off-topic. You can open a new thread and reference it with a link. Then continue with the original topic.
The new topic can be discussed in the new thread.
As you see in this thread:
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someone turned the wheel towards off-topic: “images?” (post#23)
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you did not follow it (post #24), and the thread remained on-topic.
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unfortunately you decided later to bring it back with a hard turn(post#43)
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so I did a correction to bring the thread back (post #44) - usually this would be an off-topic too
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now we are discussing this off-topic - which somehow matches the topic of the thread = back to track
