Quote Monster

A quote monster (Citatus terribilis) is a species of monster spawned when people quote posts which quote other posts. Such post cascades can grow to completely unreasonable sizes.
Vast herds of quote monsters once roamed the forums, but a shortage of their primary food source (posts), together with new software scoffing at quotes within quotes, mean that quote monsters are now a critically endangered species.
==In culture==
Edgar Allan Poe wrote a poem, "The Quote Monster", which went:
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