A question about quoting.

[NotThePrez]

Ok, I lurk the Opinions & Current Events sub-forum almost daily. One of the things I've noticed is when there's a discussion going on, some users have multiple quotes (from 1 post) to respond to certain points.

My (possibly stupid) question is how do you do this?

What I'm talking about:

1st statment here

2nd statment here

 

[Tornado]

You can either use the multiquote feature between the report button and quote button, or you can do it by hand with multiple tabs.

Or you can just copy the text and wrap it in quote tags.

 

[NotThePrez]

Ok, thanks.

 

[TB]

Multi-quoting only works when you're quoting completely different posts, not the same post multiple times. If you want to address multiple points from the same post, you must copy/paste then remove what you don't want from each like this:

Ok, I lurk the Opinions & Current Events sub-forum almost daily.

One of the things I've noticed is when there's a discussion going on, some users have multiple quotes (from 1 post) to respond to certain points.

My (possibly stupid) question is how do you do this?

Alternatively, as Toronado said, you can copy/paste the text itself, but personally I'm a bit anal about people being able to click the speech bubble in the quote to go to the post itself. Without that bubble, they have to go searching for it and the post could be 5 pages back.

 

[ITCC_Andrew]

And, for those of you who are REALLY crafty, open a new tab, "quote" the new quote (EDIT: including the [QUOTE} tabs), copy/paste it, and you can edit your original post, to reflect someone's new post.



So, I can quote someone, "Submit Reply" and "edit" with the quote, through the copy/paste.

On my iPhone, I click the small "double quote bubble" button to the left of the big quote button at the bottom right of your post for the first quote (and any subsequent quotes except the LAST quote) and the big, regular quote button for the last quote i want to include. In his case, the second. The window opens at that point for me to type and begin misspelling things.

Edit: ^ There's my proof.


Also, BJBEO, that's how normal people multi-quote, but not me.

 

[BJBEOSmitty]

My (possibly stupid) question is how do you do this?

What I'm talking about:

Ok, thanks.

On my iPhone, I click the small "double quote bubble" button to the left of the big quote button at the bottom right of your post for the first quote (and any subsequent quotes except the LAST quote) and the big, regular quote button for the last quote i want to include. In his case, the second. The window opens at that point for me to type and begin misspelling things.

 

[photonrider]

So, I can quote someone, "Submit Reply" and "edit" with the quote, through the copy/paste.

This means you've quoted someone before they've said what you quoted which is an anomaly that throws the discussion off sometimes. Control over Time is always fun though, isn't it? Feels like Time-travelling.

 

[BobK]

Alternatively, as Toronado said, you can copy/paste the text itself, but personally I'm a bit anal about people being able to click the speech bubble in the quote to go to the post itself. Without that bubble, they have to go searching for it and the post could be 5 pages back.

I heartily agree on keeping the speech bubble with the backlink; it's frustrating when you want to refer back to the entire post being quoted.

When I want to reply to separate points within a quote separately, I'll manually insert [/QUOTE] and [QUOTE] tags as appropriate. I make a point of keeping the [quote="TB, post: 7646211"] type thing in my first response.

On the subject of quoting, I have seen a few members quote a post then insert their point by point replies within the quote itself, usually bolded or some such. This is not good because it makes it far more difficult to quote their replies.

 

[ITCC_Andrew]

This means you've quoted someone before they've said what you quoted which is an anomaly that throws the discussion off sometimes. Control over Time is always fun though, isn't it? Feels like Time-travelling.

Oh, it's great fun, isn't it?