Quoting other users.

[TheWanderer]

Hi Folks,

A quick lesson and reminder on quoting other members postings within your own. recently, i've been fixing lots of errors in postings caused by the user editing the text of the original quote and damaging the "code" that the system recognises at the same time.

To get one of these:

Blah Blah Blah

you need to have this code at the beginning

(replace word user with original poster's name or alternative name)

and at the end there must be a [/ quote] without the space

Sorry this is a bit kryptic - I cannot show the exact code or the system will think this is a quote!

Please feel free to check this out using this thread as a test, and please check the code is correct when posting a quote before submitting. If you see it hasn't worked properly once posted, just click "edit" button and correct it.

Please also remember that double quoting is not allowed.

Thanks in advance, Don.

[jezza]

Is this any help in explaining how to manually type in a quote?

[ quote ="jezza" ] If you delete the spaces from between the brackets then the quote appears [ / quote ]

Like this

Or just push the quote button and type below the text that appears

Jezza

[Race Track]

Quotes can be open to mis-use:

Race Track, do i owe you £10 or £20?

It was £20 mate.

[jezza]

Indeed they can...

There was this one time, at band camp...

I'm a little teapot, short and stout...

Jezza

[TheWanderer]

Don i'll pay you diva's insurance money as soon as the cheque from Archie clears

[jezza]

Don i'll pay you diva's insurance money as soon as the cheque from Archie clears

Very kind of you Don

Going back on topic, if I can help newbies muddle through quoting then I'm happy to work through it with them via PM

Jezza

[snafu]

Very kind of you Don

Going back on topic, if I can help newbies muddle through quoting then I'm happy to work through it with them via PM

Jezza

Why not, you've been muddling everytime I've seen you

[Race Track]

Very kind of you Don

Going back on topic, if I can help newbies muddle through quoting then I'm happy to work through it with them via a personal one-on-one session in which i will lure them into my silk lined bedroom and do things i have been wanting to do with the wife but she won't let me

Jezza

Fixed

[pongolad]

Rt, you've obviously not seen jezza in his Teutonic, gargantuan, hi-vis, battenburged lederhosen

If you had, you'd have known he'd never write something that girly

[falkor]

what is this "copy and paste" ?	> check here for a tutorial on copy and paste <	T
err I didn't press my BACK BUTTON to exit, I made a mistake and pressed SUBMIT, now what do I do?	you plonker you were only supposed to peek at a member's code, not make a reply - ok never mind	.
can I delete that reply? it was a mistake	look in the reply that you made, is there an X in the top right of your post?	.
yes I see the X	are you sure you want to delete your post?	.
yes I should have pressed BACK BUTTON, my mistake	ok click the X - it will delete your post	.
sorry there is no X there, now what do I do?	well you cannot delete the post without an X button	.
well I don't like the post I made, it is just annoying, I made a mistake, surely I can do something?	press EDIT in your mistake post and delete everything in the message box, then write a few words like "entered in error" or "MOD: please delete, post made by mistake"	.
ok I'll do that, cheers!	.	.
I used QUOTE to quote what another member said. It reproduced their post in mine and then I replied more clearly to what they said	yep, QUOTE is pretty good, well done	.
but I wanted to QUOTE what 2 members said from different posts in the thread so that I can chat directly back to those 2 comments	hehe but you can only press one QUOTE button, what a conundrum	.
what's a conundrum?	the thing is, to get 2 quoted posts into your one reply do this: press QUOTE in the first post that you want reproduced in your reply now don't press SUBMIT yet! COPY AND PASTE the entire contents of the reply box into a word.doc or text.txt page now use your BACK BUTTON to exit from the QUOTE now find the next post that you wish to QUOTE press QUOTE in the second post that you want reproduced in your reply now don't press SUBMIT yet COPY AND PASTE the entire contents of the reply box into the word.doc or text.txt page AFTER the one that you already did now use your BACK BUTTON to exit from the QUOTE just like last time now go to the thread in question and simply press REPLY now copy and paste the whole of the text from the word.doc or text.txt page INTO your reply box	.
what is this "copy and paste" ?	> check here for a tutorial on copy and paste <	U
The last post in the topic featured a quoted post, the poster had pressed QUOTE and it showed the post that he then went on to reply to.	Great	.
Now when I press QUOTE, I get both his post and the post he quoted, quoted in my post and I can reply to both his post and the post he quoted	And then the next poster can press QUOTE again and get both your post quoted plus the previous poster who quoted somebody else	.
Yeah then the next poster can press QUOTE again and gets so many quote boxes going we are all sick of the sight of seeing boxes within boxes	PLEASE PLEASE limit the amount of quote boxes mounting up in topics, they do nothing to help the flow of a thread in fact they form a maze of messages and ultimately just cause confusion if you notice the latest post has a QUOTE in it already please DO NOT press QUOTE yourself	.
or it is likely that a whole succession of QUOTED QUOTES will kick off?	Yep and the whole page just looks a mess, totally unnecessary too	.

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