# Odd quoting error happening

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-quoting-error-happening/943944>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [June 10, 2021, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-quoting-error-happening/943944 "2021-06-10T02:58:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-quoting-error-happening/943944/1 "2021-06-10T02:58:17Z")

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usually if theres a news article posted there’s usually a pic of somesort and a synopsis of the link  
Well when I went to quote another poster it included the article he was discussing which is normal but the error message I received when I tried to respond said "cant embed media in a post "

Which unless something changed you can …

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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-quoting-error-happening/943944/2 "2021-06-10T21:10:58Z")

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I’ve had something similar happen to me, not when I was quoting someone who had an article link, but someone who had a photo link. It wouldn’t let me respond with the photo in the quote despite the fact that I hadn’t tried to upload anything, I was literally just quoting the previous post. I eventually had to give up and leave the photo out of my quote, but it let me quote the text at least.

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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-quoting-error-happening/943944/3 "2021-06-10T21:48:18Z")

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Moved to site feedback, since it’s about the software.

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**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-quoting-error-happening/943944/4 "2021-06-11T20:46:12Z")

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I’ve had that happen a few times, too.