Quotes and Replies

[Ferretfancy]

If I wish to reply to a lengthy post, how can I simply extract just the section I need to comment on, rather than the whole piece?

[Mr Pee]

If I wish to reply to a lengthy post, how can I simply extract just the section I need to comment on, rather than the whole piece?

After you have clicked on "Reply with quote", just delete the bits you don't want, keeping the end "Quote" thingummy.

[Pabmusic]

After you have clicked on "Reply with quote", just delete the bits you don't want, keeping the end "Quote" thingummy.

Yes, and if you want to quote more than one passage, put new "Quote" thingummies around each passage. It took me a while...

[Sir Velo]

Yes, and if you want to quote more than one passage, put new "Quote" thingummies around each passage. It took me a while...

Yes, for some reason the "multi quote" facility doesn't permit multi quoting. "Go figure" as they say across the pond.

[salymap]

Thanks. i thought, as always, that I was the only person afraid to try this.

[MrGongGong]

After you have clicked on "Reply with quote", just delete the bits you don't want, keeping the end "Quote" thingummy.

Yes, and if you want to quote more than one passage, put new "Quote" thingummies around each passage. It took me a while...

Yes, for some reason the "multi quote" facility doesn't permit multi quoting. "Go figure" as they say across the pond.

seems to work for me ?

[jean]

I wish the software would permit a quote within a quote. People frequently just click 'reply with quote' but then it's only the last poster's words which come up, and they are often nonsense without the embedded passage they're replying to.

I also can't see the point of repeating a whole post when you only want to reply to a section of it.

And when you want to praise someone's post immediately after they've posted it, there really is no point in posting the whole thing again.

[jean]

seems to work for me ?

I can do that, but I have to use two screens.

Is there an easier way?

[MrGongGong]

I can do that, but I have to use two screens.

Is there an easier way?

yes
just select the posts you want to quote from using the "+ next to the Reply With Quote then use REPLY WITH QUOTE for the last one

I wish the software would permit a quote within a quote.

like this you mean ?

People frequently just click 'reply with quote' but then it's only the last poster's words which come up, and they are often nonsense without the embedded passage they're replying to.

[jean]

yes
just select the posts you want to quote from using the "+ next to the Reply With Quote then use REPLY WITH QUOTE for the last one

I've just clicked it, but it's not clear what to do next.

And as for the next part of your post, I can't bring it up at all.

I know how to embed a quote within a quote as you have done, but I can't do it automatically from a previous post

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And when you want to praise someone's post immediately after they've posted it, there really is no point in posting the whole thing again.

Except that, when I don't quote from the text, usually somebody else has made a comment by the time I've posted, so it looks as if I'm arguing/agreeing (it happens!) with a post I haven't read.

[jean]

If that happens, you can go back and edit.

(It didn't this time!)

[jean]

Or you can simply say #12 was absolutely brilliant.

[french frank]

I think it was the Quote within a quote that the BBC disabled (thank goodness!) to stop people adding miles and miles of previous posts. Tedious when all they wanted to say was at the end.

If you just add what you want to reply to, with the Originally posted by, and the blue double chevron, other people can check back if they feel something isn't clear.

[jean]

That seems like a sledgehammer to crack a nut - it's possible to make a brief selection of more than one contribution from a previous discussion.

Disabling that function doesn't stop people from quoting very long single posts only to say they agree with them.