For some reason, I can’t seem to quote a post that has multiple quotes in it. It’s important to capture each thought for a proper flow of the conversation.
When I hit the “quote” button, it will only quote the text that is in the posting that is from the author of the post I’m answering. However, if I push the “multi-quote” button, I get nothing. The browser locks, and I can’t get that nested quoting that is needed to make it easier to read.
Is there something I’m missing, a setting I need to change, or something else? This used to work for me, but it hasn’t worked for a couple of months now and I’ve grown tired of manually placing the quoted text in my postings.
You mean you want to auto nest-quotes, so that you not only quote the post your responding to, but any quotes from a third posting that are in that post?
I don’t think you can do it other then with laborious cut-and-pasting. I think the “multi-quote” thing just adds quote blocks for every post you check it in, but still doesn’t preserve nested quotes.
Hope I’m wrong though, and someone chimes in with a better way to do it. I’ve always hated that the quote thing doesn’t grab other peoples quotes in the same post.
As far as the other questions, I am using windows 7 and IE.
sorry xash if I wasn’t clear.
At the bottom of each posting window, there is the edit button, the quote button, the “Multi-quote this message” button and “quick reply to this message” button.
Everything works except the multi-quote button. That button doesn’t do anything at all.
Yeah, it seems like you can’t preserve a nested quote. You could use multi-quote instead. To use multi-quote, select the “” button for each post you want to quote, then click the Post Reply button at the bottom of the thread. All the posts you selected will appear as quotes in your reply box.
Additional tips: You don’t need to go looking for the post inside the nested quotes. First, select the post you want to quote, then for the nested quote just click on the little > icon after the poster name in the nested quote, the browser will scroll to that post, then select it for multi-quote by hitting the “” button under the post, then scroll to the end of the thread and click on the Post Reply button. Both quotes will now appear neatly in your reply box. You can now manually nest them if you like.
Xash anychance you are nesting bird eggs or something? Perhaps following the pigeon eggs thread? I can almost imagine you smiling with glee at your discovery!
I’m going to try a number of different things in this thread to see if I can figure out what you are suggesting as well as how to get my nested quote post to look like it should. I know I had this function before, because doing it manually is just too tedious.
One question. What in the world is the multi-post button for?
That’s by design. The multi-quote button by itself does nothing. However, when you click it it turns red. Indicating you have selected the post for multi-quote. You need to click on the Post Reply button to see the multi-quote selections show up.
I can almost imagine you smiling with glee at your discovery!