# "added post" **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 23, 2001, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/added-post/62961 "2001-04-23T03:52:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/added-post/62961/1 "2001-04-23T03:52:47Z")
test preview (with subject added post) ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/added-post/62961/2 "2001-04-23T04:41:24Z")
Ignorant person here: what’s “subject added post”? ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/added-post/62961/3 "2001-04-23T04:55:48Z")
He put “added post” in the subject line of the message. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/added-post/62961/4 "2001-04-23T05:30:56Z")
He wanted to see if vB would eat his entire title, since it was all in quotes, and vB eats quotes under certain conditions. Apparently, it didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/added-post/62961/5 "2001-04-23T08:21:27Z")
So, um, what conditions? ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/added-post/62961/6 "2001-04-23T08:45:55Z")
If you put quotes in the subject title and then preview, it will eat everything after the first double quote. You have to put them back in and then post directly from the screen you entered them on. I think. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/added-post/62961/7 "2001-04-23T17:21:09Z")
If you use double quotes in a subject, and then submit from the preview page, then everything following and including the first double quote will be truncated. The exception to this, as **KarlGauss** just found, is apparently when the first character is a double quote. This is good, because we wouldn’t want threads to start appearing with no topic line. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/added-post/62961/8 "2001-04-23T21:16:50Z")
Chronos, I just tried that and preview blanked out the whole subject, the same as it has been doing all along. KG probably did a browser “back” before posting as you described at the end of this thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30833](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30833) ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/added-post/62961/9 "2001-04-23T21:38:48Z")
Sorry. Didn’t mean to do anything other than test the “” feature in the subject line. I should have just called it “test post”. KG ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/added-post/62961/10 "2001-04-23T22:13:05Z")
So **Karl** , did you submit from the preview page? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/added-post/62961/11 "2001-04-23T22:41:23Z")
No, I previewed the text of my post (with nothing in the subject field), checked it, then added “added post”\* to the subject line, then, without previewing again, pressed submit reply. - _post_ refers to post preview ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/added-post/62961/12 "2001-04-24T17:30:55Z")
I tried it again, and when it’s only a post to a thread, vB eats the whole topic. When it’s a brand new thread, though, it leaves it alone. Yeah, I know, it’s complicated. Don’t ask me, I didn’t write this program. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/added-post/62961/13 "2001-04-24T19:26:35Z")
This is **very** strange. I just tested both “new thread” and “reply to thread” in AOL, stand-alone IE and Netscape, preview again _completely blanked out both subjects_. Maybe you just have to be a mod. 😃 FWIW I’m running Win98 with IE 5.5 and Netscape 4.72.