# Need help learning multi-quoting replies **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 1, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291 "2011-10-01T21:43:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [October 1, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291/1 "2011-10-01T21:43:19Z")
Hi, all. Second-day n00b here. Been trying to post replies, quoting multiple earlier posts in one reply. I see others are doing it, but I can’t get it to work for me. Am I clicking something when I should be clacking? Here’s how far I get: (1) I see the FAQ, where it says: > [@](#): > > If you want to post replies to multiple posts you can select them by clicking the multi quote button Multi quote. This button will change to indicate that you’ve selected it. Clicking post reply will then bring you to the full editor with all the posts quoted. (2) I click a few multi-quote buttons, and they all turn red. So far so good? (3) I click on “Post Reply” button. New EMPTY edit window pops up, with NONE of the selected posts quoted there. (Is that something you admins enable or disable on a per-discussion-area basis?) What am I missing here (other than a few brain cells)? Please be gentle with me for my blatant stupidity, I only have 40 years of Programming/SysAdmin/DB/Networking/Linux exp. (really! Well, sort-of), so I need all the help I can get! Edit: And where is my signature line? I was sure I had at least that working . . . ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291/2 "2011-10-01T21:50:07Z")
For the last person you want to quote, dont use the + button, just the regular “Quote” button. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291/3 "2011-10-01T21:58:28Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > For the last person you want to quote, dont use the + button, just the regular “Quote” button. Note, this is NOT exactly what the FAQ (as quoted above) says. I’m going to try this right now. Stay tuned . . . ---
**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:** [October 1, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291/4 "2011-10-01T22:05:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Capitaine Zombie: > For the last person you want to quote, dont use the + button, just the regular “Quote” button. > [@Senegoid](#): > > Note, this is NOT exactly what the FAQ (as quoted above) says. I’m going to try this right now. Stay tuned . . . No, that didn’t work either. Doing that, only the last one I chose appeared quoted in the new edit window (the one that I clicked the “Quote” button on), and the others did not appear. (n.b., note that the two messages quoted above in THIS reply, I did one of those “manually” with old-fashioned cut-and-pasting. You can tell, because the first of the above two quotes looks different.) ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291/5 "2011-10-01T22:08:41Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Hi, all. Second-day n00b here. Been trying to post replies, quoting multiple earlier posts in one reply. I see others are doing it, but I can’t get it to work for me. Am I clicking something when I should be clacking? Here’s how far I get: > > (1) I see the FAQ, where it says: > (2) I click a few multi-quote buttons, and they all turn red. So far so good? > > (3) I click on “Post Reply” button. New EMPTY edit window pops up, with NONE of the selected posts quoted there. > (Is that something you admins enable or disable on a per-discussion-area basis?) > > What am I missing here (other than a few brain cells)? Please be gentle with me for my blatant stupidity, I only have 40 years of Programming/SysAdmin/DB/Networking/Linux exp. (really! Well, sort-of), so I need all the help I can get! > > Edit: And where is my signature line? I was sure I had at least that working . . . > [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > For the last person you want to quote, dont use the + button, just the regular “Quote” button. I just did the above by: Clicking on the + button for your post, and then by clicking on “quote” for my own. Make sure that the + button is really clicked on. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291/6 "2011-10-01T22:15:47Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > I just did the above by: > Clicking on the + button for your post, and then by clicking on “quote” for my own. > > Make sure that the + button is really clicked on. Exactly! That’s just what I did to create THIS reply. I click the + button (the one with the double-quotation mark and the + sign on it, right), and it changes from blue to red. I can even make SEVERAL posts have this button in red all at once. Then I click the “quote” button of another message, and only THAT one gets quoted. Is there some configuration setting I need to set in my profile to enable this? I couldn’t find one. BTW, are you seeing my signature lines? I’m not seeing my own sig lines, but I may still need to fiddle with that. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291/7 "2011-10-01T22:16:23Z")
Do you have JavaScript disabled? That will cause weird behaviour with the multi-quote button. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291/8 "2011-10-01T22:16:47Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Edit: And where is my signature line? I was sure I had at least that working . . . Only paid members can enable a signature line in their profiles to display when they post. We guests can’t. We have two alternatives. You may type a signature line in your post. Or you can join up with a full membership. Now would be a good time in fact, since the membership price has been lowered to $10.00 for the weekend. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291/9 "2011-10-01T22:26:03Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > Do you have JavaScript disabled? That will cause weird behaviour with the multi-quote button. JS in ENabled. I am using Firefox 3.6.9 on Ubuntu Linux box. It certainly works for doing other JS-needful tasks, like paying my bills on-line :rolleyes: Think maybe I should try it using IE on a Win box? (The latest Win I have is XP.) I suspect that with JS offed, this site would probably be far more dysfunctional (and far more obviously so) that what I’ve seen so far. Just for grins, I’ll play with that someday RSN. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291/10 "2011-10-01T22:29:53Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Only paid members can enable a signature line in their profiles to display when they post. We guests can’t. We have two alternatives. You may type a signature line in your post. Or you can join up with a full membership. Now would be a good time in fact, since the membership price has been lowered to $10.00 for the weekend. Well, then I guess I DIDN’T have that working. On well, I can live with that. # – Senegoid ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291/11 "2011-10-03T05:48:58Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > JS in ENabled. I am using Firefox 3.6.9 on Ubuntu Linux box. > It certainly works for doing other JS-needful tasks, like paying my bills on-line :rolleyes: > Think maybe I should try it using IE on a Win box? (The latest Win I have is XP.) > > I suspect that with JS offed, this site would probably be far more dysfunctional (and far more obviously so) that what I’ve seen so far. Just for grins, I’ll play with that someday RSN. > [@Senegoid](#): > > Well, then I guess I DIDN’T have that working. On well, I can live with that. > > # – Senegoid I did this by clicking on the multi-quote for both of these quotes, then clicking on the Quote button for the last post. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291/12 "2011-10-03T14:34:59Z")
I click on the multi-quote for each one I want to use, then click “post reply.” They’re all there, in the order I clicked them in. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291/13 "2011-10-03T18:18:43Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > I did this by clicking on the multi-quote for both of these quotes, then clicking on the Quote button for the last post. > [@Senegoid](#): > > Well, then I guess I DIDN’T have that working. On well, I can live with that. > > # – Senegoid > [@twickster](#): > > I click on the multi-quote for each one I want to use, then click “post reply.” They’re all there, in the order I clicked them in. Whoo hoo! I learned something new. Thanks very much all. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291/14 "2011-10-03T18:42:54Z")
Don’t know why it’s not working for **Senegoid** , but I use the multiquote button for all I want to cite, the use the post reply button as well. Actually, I copy the post reply button, paste that in the URL of another tab, then open the edit window there. So I can keep the thread to refer back to. YMMV. If I open the reply window, then decide I wish to quote someone else before I’ve started editing the reply, I go back and hit that multiquote button, then repaste the reply button link and reopen. It will add that new post to the reply text. If I’ve already been writing the reply, then I’ll just manually quote to save rewriting. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291/15 "2011-10-04T03:13:52Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Only paid members can enable a signature line in their profiles to display when they post. We guests can’t. Huh? My sig shows up fine below. From my point of view it works like it has for a long time: you have to check the “show your signature” box EVERY TIME. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2011, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291/16 "2011-10-04T07:53:25Z")
This just in! I tried multi-quoting, using my old Win XP machine with Firefox 3.6.8 and it works just fine. But when I use my Linux Ubuntu machine with Firefox 3.6.9, it doesn’t work. Go figure. Any ideas anybody? > [@twickster](#): > > I click on the multi-quote for each one I want to use, then click “post reply.” They’re all there, in the order I clicked them in. Interesting that it can keep track of the order you clicked them. > [@Irishman](#): > > Actually, I copy the post reply button, paste that in the URL of another tab, then open the edit window there. So I can keep the thread to refer back to. YMMV. Now there’s a thought. I’ll have to try that too. Sounds handy. Oh, and I’ll try clicking on “show signature every time” too. Thanks, **rowrrbazzle** ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-learning-multi-quoting-replies/598291/17 "2011-10-04T21:28:14Z")
I was going to start a thread about multi-quoting not working for me but I guess it’s not necessary. For me, all multi-quote options are defaulted to +, so it should be on already, but it never works. Seeing the post above about Javascript gives me an idea. I’ll test something, and if it works, then I’ll have some advice for Firefox users. Edit: Nope, that didn’t work. When I hit Reply I only get the very last quote in a post. There was a short time when multi-quote worked for me, but for a long time it hasn’t.