Currently reading through a long GitHub issue thread. For some reason people started quoting the entire message they are replying to.
The last post has 9 nested messages and the quote section is 1600 pixels tall. Who needs @mentions anyways.

It could be from an conversion of a mailing list to GitHub issue.

It's pretty common and even recommended in mailing lists to quote the specific part you're replying to to prevent misunderstandings

@IntrusionCM Doubt it. It's a popular open source repo. Anyways the context shouldn't include the all 9 previous message spanning almost 2 pages.

@pythonPlusPlus ah..misread on my side. :)

@mentions by itself doesn't give enough context if you meant to comment on a previous comment, same as in devrant.

Do you want a 4chan style reply or a thread style reply which can lose the current state and get stuck on one message? None? You get replies then.

@melezorus34 but then they could trim the replies and github already has a "copy permanent link" for comments...