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I've seen quite a few mangled quotes lately and posts about people needing to learn how to use quote, so I thought I'd write this, Quotes 101.
A quote is a highlighted box that shows in your post. When you create it, it starts [quite] and ends [/quite], only the word in the square brackets is quote, not quite. Any words you write inside those two quote instructions will show like this
You can write or copy any text from anywhere into a quote. You can either type the quote boxes yourself, or highlight the text and use the quote function in the list under ... at the top of the reply box. (For me, that line at the top is sometimes enabled and sometimes not.)
To quote what someone has just posted, press the reply button at the bottom of their post and wait until you see the whole quote plus the [/quite] end appear in your reply. Depending on your line speed this can be quite slow, and if you start inputting before then what you write will end up hidden inside the quote box or even mixed up in the quote.
You can edit what is inside the quote box to reduce it to the bit you want to answer. You can chop the quote up and answer one bit at a time by adding extra [quite][/quite] boxes. Obviously you can also change what was written but you'll be very unpopular if you do! If the writer changes what they wrote after you quoted it, your quote will still show what they originally wrote. This can be handy if people change what they originally said.
If you only want to answer a part of a post, you can highlight it and you will be offered new reply and quote buttons. If you choose reply, your post will automatically fill with that bit of text in quote boxes.
If you want to quote more than one post, then pressing reply on another post while you have the first post quoted in your reply box will add the second, and subsequent posts. You can do this either before you have answered the first one, or after you have put some text in. Be careful where your cursor is before you press reply on the additional quote(s) or things can get jumbled. The new quote will go where your cursor is.
Hope that helps!
A quote is a highlighted box that shows in your post. When you create it, it starts [quite] and ends [/quite], only the word in the square brackets is quote, not quite. Any words you write inside those two quote instructions will show like this
You can write or copy any text from anywhere into a quote. You can either type the quote boxes yourself, or highlight the text and use the quote function in the list under ... at the top of the reply box. (For me, that line at the top is sometimes enabled and sometimes not.)
To quote what someone has just posted, press the reply button at the bottom of their post and wait until you see the whole quote plus the [/quite] end appear in your reply. Depending on your line speed this can be quite slow, and if you start inputting before then what you write will end up hidden inside the quote box or even mixed up in the quote.
You can edit what is inside the quote box to reduce it to the bit you want to answer. You can chop the quote up and answer one bit at a time by adding extra [quite][/quite] boxes. Obviously you can also change what was written but you'll be very unpopular if you do! If the writer changes what they wrote after you quoted it, your quote will still show what they originally wrote. This can be handy if people change what they originally said.
If you only want to answer a part of a post, you can highlight it and you will be offered new reply and quote buttons. If you choose reply, your post will automatically fill with that bit of text in quote boxes.
If you want to quote more than one post, then pressing reply on another post while you have the first post quoted in your reply box will add the second, and subsequent posts. You can do this either before you have answered the first one, or after you have put some text in. Be careful where your cursor is before you press reply on the additional quote(s) or things can get jumbled. The new quote will go where your cursor is.
Hope that helps!
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