# Practice Quoting and Multi-quoting here. (I need this thread!) **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 23, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573 "2020-06-23T23:12:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/22 "2020-06-24T06:54:16Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > OK, so do you all see the quote in post #2? I did it and it disappeared once I published. I only see my new line from post #2. > > Also, the “edit pencil” turned orange and said my post was edited… > > What is going on? Selected the first paragraph; let’s see if the whole pst comes through or not. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/23 "2020-06-24T13:39:47Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > What is going on? Testing @Mahaloth 's suggestion… ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/24 "2020-06-25T01:14:54Z")
It won’t work for me. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/25 "2020-06-25T01:18:05Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > It won’t work for me Again ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/26 "2020-06-25T01:18:20Z")
Got it now ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/27 "2020-06-25T09:58:24Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I am still wondering if we can get rid of this auto-elimination thingy. Les chemises de l’archiduchesse sont-elles sèches ou archi-sèches ? Let’s see if quoting works. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/28 "2020-06-25T14:19:22Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > To quote your entire post, I first hit the “reply” to your post, and then hit the little bubble in the upper left of my reply field. This automatically quoted the whole thing. I doubt whether that really works. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/29 "2020-06-25T14:19:57Z")
Well whaddayouknow, it does work! But surely multi-quoting will not work like that. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/30 "2020-06-25T14:21:29Z")
> [@Tusculan](#): > > > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > > To quote your entire post, I first hit the “reply” to your post, and then hit the little bubble in the upper left of my reply field. This automatically quoted the whole thing. > > I doubt whether that really works. You see? Multi-quoting is a figment of the imagination. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/31 "2020-06-25T14:47:52Z")
[quote=“Tusculan, post:30, topic:912573, full:true”] > [@Tusculan](#): > > > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > > > To quote your entire post, I first hit the “reply” to your post, and then hit the little bubble in the upper left of my reply field. This automatically quoted the whole thing. > > > [/quote] > > > > > > I doubt whether that really works. > > You see? Multi-quoting is a figment of the imagination. I am testing multi-quoting. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/32 "2020-06-25T16:11:28Z")
Two main ways to multiquote. You can highlight the part from the first post that you want to quote, then press the Quote button that magically pops up. Go to the next post and do the same thing. And so on. Or you can press the Reply button under the first post (not the one at the bottom of the thread), then click the speech bubble. Click Reply under the next post you want to quote. Click the speech bubble. And so on. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/33 "2020-06-26T00:32:00Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I’ve quoted, but when I publish the post, I don’t always see the quote in the new post/reply I make. I also want to practice and figure out how to multi-quote, so I am putting this here. Feel free to quote and practice quoting here. This is me testing. I haven’t successfully quoted yet. Maybe this will be my first one. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/34 "2020-06-26T00:33:34Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Go to the next post and do the same thing. And so on. > > Or you can press the Reply button under the first post (not the one at the bottom of the thread), then click the speech bubble. Click Reply under the next post you want to quote. Now I’m practicing quoting part of a post. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/35 "2020-06-28T04:20:41Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > Now I’m practicing quoting part of a post. Testing ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/36 "2020-06-28T16:51:21Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@needscoffee](#): > > > > > [@Mahaloth](#): > > > > > > I am still wondering if we can get rid of this auto-elimination thingy > > > > Leave off the last character of the quoted post and it will work > > testing (I see we now have a FIVE character limit instead of twenty) Just testing multi-quote. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/37 "2020-06-28T18:06:14Z")
If I select everything, to quote the multiquote, the quote is broken. If I use the keyboard shortcuts - SUCCESS! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/38 "2020-06-28T18:31:53Z")
> [@PlaceboTarget](#): > > If I select everything, to quote the multiquote, the quote is broken. If I use the keyboard shortcuts - SUCCESS! > [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Two main ways to multiquote. You can highlight the part from the first post that you want to quote, then press the Quote button that magically pops up. Go to the next post and do the same thing. And so on. > > Or you can press the Reply button under the first post (not the one at the bottom of the thread), then click the speech bubble. Click Reply under the next post you want to quote. Click the speech bubble. And so on. Testing full-post multi-quote where the test question is which quoted post this will be attached to. Wish me luck! [Click!] ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/39 "2020-06-28T18:34:09Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Two main ways to multiquote. You can highlight the part from the first post that you want to quote, then press the Quote button that magically pops up. Go to the next post and do the same thing. And so on. > > Or you can press the Reply button under the first post (not the one at the bottom of the thread), then click the speech bubble. Click Reply under the next post you want to quote. Click the speech bubble. And so on. > [@PlaceboTarget](#): > > If I select everything, to quote the multiquote, the quote is broken. If I use the keyboard shortcuts - SUCCESS! Trying the other arrangement now. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/40 "2020-06-28T18:38:39Z")
Interesting. You can partly or fully quote multiple posts in any order and the net result is your post appears as a reply to each of the posts you quote. By “order” here I mean the chronological sequence of clicking each posts’ [Reply] button. Which also sets the textual sequence of quote entries in your post. But that text can be edited manually to be whatever sequence you want. Bottom line: Order don’t matter. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573/41 "2020-06-28T18:47:42Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Testing full-post multi-quote where the test question is which quoted post this will be attached to. Wish me luck! [Click!] > [@LSLGuy](#): > > Trying the other arrangement now. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > Interesting. You can partly or fully quote multiple posts in any order and the net result is your post appears as a reply to each of the posts you quote. > > By “order” here I mean the chronological sequence of clicking each posts’ [Reply] button. Which also sets the textual sequence of quote entries in your post. But that text can be edited manually to be whatever sequence you want. > > Bottom line: Order don’t matter. Testing [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-quoting-and-multi-quoting-here-i-need-this-thread/912573.md?page=3)