# Problem with incorrect quoting

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-incorrect-quoting/938905>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [March 28, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-incorrect-quoting/938905 "2021-03-28T14:37:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 4

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-incorrect-quoting/938905/4 "2021-03-31T18:44:14Z")

</div>

> [@BigT](#):
>
> To confirm, you hadn’t highlighted any of the post that actually got quoted, right?

> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#):
>
> Which reply did you hit? Was it the one at the bottom right corner of the last post?

I didn’t touch anything from the Thudlow\_Boink point. The only click was on the Reply under DPRK’s post.

I search on “wrong poster” and found some examples that could be the same effect. I’m sure I’ve seen others, toos.

> [@Moses Farrow defends Woody Allen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moses-farrow-defends-woody-allen/927877/71):
>
> I think you replied to the wrong poster. Again, rather than just throwing out all these statements, can you provide any reputable cites for what you are claiming?

> [@Electoral College v. Popular Vote - How Big Is Too Big?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electoral-college-v-popular-vote-how-big-is-too-big/920262/251):
>
> I was just matching this post’s language Somehow I linked to the wrong post.

> [@Your favorite 80's movie trope?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-movie-trope/921521/13):
>
> Oops, I replied to the wrong post in my last post. I meant this one, of course: This is the trope you’re looking for: [The Quincy Punk - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheQuincyPunk)

> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#):
>
> That’s easily explained, I think.

Of course I considered an edit. But I thought that edited posts show a pencil afterward. What causes a post to show a pencil if an edit doesn’t do so?

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-incorrect-quoting/938905)._