Some new quote option ideas:

[dylansan]

I had this idea because of how many times I'd like to reply seperately to different posts. Here's my idea:

Sometimes I get mad because I want to reply to different parts of the same post, and it's hard to do that without major copy paste and button clicking etc.
My idea is to have another button that brings up a dropdown menu or text box for you to choose how many parts of the post you would reply to, and then it would work like a normal quote, except there would be several empty quote boxes. Under the post textbox, it displays what the post was that you quoted, and you can just copy and paste different parts of it into the boxes. For example:
First, when you selec, say, 4 things in the post you want to quote seperately, you get this:

[QUOTE ][/QUOTE ]
[QUOTE ][/QUOTE ]
[QUOTE ][/QUOTE ]
[QUOTE ][/QUOTE ]
(without the spaces)
and underneath it shows the post, as an example, let's say the post was like this:

1:cars are good.
2:I like cars.
3:do you like cars?
4:Let's talk about cars!

Instead of ending up like this with the normal qoute option:

1:cars are good.
2:I like cars.
3:do you like cars?
4:Let's talk about cars!

And responding, you can fill in the 4 quote tags above, and end up like this:

1:cars are good.

2:I like cars.

3:do you like cars?

4:Let's talk about cars!

Then respond, to get this:

1:cars are good.

I agree

2:I like cars.

So do I

3:do you like cars?

Yes

4:Let's talk about cars!

OK.

It would help with longer posts with lots of parts to it, so you wouldn't need to respond seperately.

OR

Another option would be to have a seperator tag, that puts this:

[/QUOTE]

Inside the current qoute, to seperate it there, and in between it, you can put your reply.


What would make it better is the option to multiquote it too, so that you can select the number for all posts you want to quote, then press the reply button, and end up doing the same thing. You could use the regular multiquote button for the second option.

I personally think the second option is the best, but the first came from random brainstorming.

Also, I think when you multiquote you should be able to see farther back, like into the previous pages. For example, if there is a 2 page thread, and you want to quote the last 5 posts on the 1st page, and 3 on the second page, I would like if I could do both. That way I don't have to open up another explorer for the other page, and multiquote the other posts, then paste that into the other window. That's too annoying.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway, excuse the long post, but I had a lot to say, so take it into consideration.

 

[Thiele]

Yeah, i like the seperator idea

 

[Jordan]

This would certainly address the issue of responding to sections of a post, but the required AJAX knowledge to implement this is beyond my realm of expertise. Perhaps your suggestion would be better directed to the developers of vBulletin. 👍

 

[dylansan]

Hmm, well, you mean you can't put an extra button in the advanced reply box, just like the quote tag button, to put the tag [/quote]

in? I thought that's what you did with the Youtube tags (all of this is talking about the second option-The first option is a bit complicated...). Anyway, what about that multi quote thing? I'm not sure which idea you're responding to, so any clarification on each idea would be helpful. 👍

 

[Jordan]

The WYSIWYG buttons don't actually work the way you might think they do. The buttons insert a set of tags, which always must be in the [foo][/foo] format, making it impossible to do what you are suggesting with vB code. The multi-quote functionality you mentioned already exists - you can even use this feature to quote previously selected posts from other threads entirely.

 

[guska]

you can even use this feature to quote previously selected posts from other threads entirely.

Well I'll be, I didn't realise that! That would have made a few of my recent posts all the much easier.

As for the idea, I like it, perhaps MINICOOPER120 could submit it to vBulletin!

 

[TopHat]

Yeah, go to vbulletin.net, and post it in their forums! Its a great idea.

 

[Barracuda]

I think it would also be pretty cool to have a button for [URL =]

 

[dylansan]

My idea should be up on the forums now

 

[Wolfe]

I've always thought it was easy enough to quote the whole post, copy the {QUOTE=Username;#######} bit, apply it to the beginning of each quoted section, and manually type {/quote} at the end of each section.

Also, having a tabbed browser like Firefox makes copying and pasting quotes from more than one post really easy.

I suppose having a feature like this couldn't hurt, though.

 

[GT4_Rule]

Nice idea Minicooper. 👍