# I'm about to start cussin' **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [June 24, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-start-cussin/912648 "2020-06-24T04:32:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-start-cussin/912648/1 "2020-06-24T04:32:40Z")
We can do without the auto-removing of quotes in our replies. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-start-cussin/912648/2 "2020-06-24T04:37:48Z")
Highlight, tap the quote feature, and new post shows up with quote. Edited to add: No it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-start-cussin/912648/3 "2020-06-24T04:39:32Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Highlight, tap the quote feature, and new post shows up with quote. > Edited to add: No it doesn’t.  S’what I’m talkin’ about. If you quote the very last post in full, system erases it. I’m tired of having to mess with it. Just turn it off. ETA: Goddammit, it did it again. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-start-cussin/912648/4 "2020-06-24T04:40:29Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > > [@Czarcasm](#): > > > > Highlight, tap the quote feature, and new post shows up with quote. > > Edited to add: No it doesn’t.  > > S’what I’m talkin’ about. If you quote the very last post in full, system erases it. > > I’m tired of having to mess with it. Just turn it off. > > ETA: Goddammit, it did it again.  Agreed! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-start-cussin/912648/5 "2020-06-24T04:42:06Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > We can do without the auto-removing of quotes in our replies Trying it again, this time leaving off the period at the end of the sentence. And it worked. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-start-cussin/912648/6 "2020-06-24T04:43:40Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > > [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > > > We can do without the auto-removing of quotes in our replies > > Trying it again, this time leaving off the period at the end of the sentence. > And it worked.  Yup. I add a non-breaking space to the end (when I remember). Taking off trailing smilies and adding regular spaces to the end don’t work, but a regular space to the beginning does (IIRC). ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-start-cussin/912648/7 "2020-06-24T05:06:10Z")
Now, now, there, Mrs. Disco-Nanny-Bot knows better than thou, so be a good little poster and eat your peas and carrots and stop fussing or we’ll send you to bed without your dinner. Actually, I’ve been coming around to thinking that’s probably a good-ish thing, although we don’t need no steenkin nanny-bot to tell us so. Back in the Before Times, this was actually common: When replying directly to the immediately previous post, posters would just add a new post rather than quoting the post. As you’re reading the thread, it comes naturally: You see a post, and the next post responds to it without quoting it, and it (usually) seems clear. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-start-cussin/912648/8 "2020-06-24T05:10:56Z")
Everybody, go to the blackboard and write one hundred times:   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!) ( . . . )   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!)   (Don’t forget that semi-colon!) … so you’ll have it thoroughly memorized and programmed into your hind-brain and your finger-tips and you’ll automatically, habitually type this into EVERY quote you make without even thinking about it, and all will be well forever and ever. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-start-cussin/912648/10 "2020-06-24T05:15:23Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > (post withdrawn by author, will be automatically deleted in 24 hours unless flagged)  ISWYDT! ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-start-cussin/912648/11 "2020-06-24T05:28:51Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Back in the Before Times, this was actually common: When replying directly to the immediately previous post, posters would just add a new post rather than quoting the post. As you’re reading the thread, it comes naturally: You see a post, and the next post responds to it without quoting it, and it (usually) seems clear. That’s fine, as long as it’s clear what you’re responding to. If I go to the trouble of adding a quote, there’s a reason for it, and Discourse be damned.   (Don’t forget to burn Discobot!)   (Don’t forget to burn Discobot!)   (Don’t forget to burn Discobot!)