Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
I've not heard the term "layered; i.e, the total number of quote boxes in a single post? Well, the above one has quite a few. I count 14.
On a recently closed thread this year was,
That's because I was forced to use the word in order to play on the thread title, and "layers" is not really used in this context.
Normally I would refer to "container" or "node" to describe your "nested quote", "ply depth" to describe the number of parent nodes which successively contain a node, and "span" or "degree" to describe how many nodes were contained by a given parent node. "Layers" should be "cardinality" of the tree, but my attempt to make it somehow on topic would have failed.
*Jim, I'm just messing with you, a little bit. Part of my work involves data science, and some visualizations design, so it really is of interest to me.