# Problem with quoting **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 6, 2013, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-quoting/665517 "2013-08-06T19:26:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-quoting/665517/1 "2013-08-06T19:26:45Z")
I’m still running into an intermittant problem with quoting. Occasionally, I will be reading through a thread and hitting multiquote as usual. When I open the reply window, the quotes will not show up. Even if I refresh or reclick the multiquote buttons. Using single quote does not work either. Oddly, if I open a different thread and open a reply window to that thread, I will get the comment that there are quotes from a different thread I can include or deselect. I can then pull up the quotes in that reply window, and paste them to the thread I was trying to put them in. I do not know what is causing this glitch. I have not observed any patterns to help ID when and why it occurs. The work around is cumbersome but it is working, with the alternate being to manually quote like in days of yore. I’m curious if others are seeing the problem, and if anyone has any insight. It is not occurring in every thread, just sporadically. I know, I know, we are upgrading the servers. Where are we in the status of that effort? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-quoting/665517/2 "2013-08-06T19:39:39Z")
Server upgrade is finished. To the best of my knowledge nothing else is scheduled; we’re done. Dunno why you are having this problem; there shouldn’t be anything adverse going on at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-quoting/665517/3 "2013-08-06T22:01:42Z")
Just happened again in this [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=324468). Selected a couple quotes, opened the reply window, they weren’t visible. Opened [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=15590169) to get the quotes to appear (not visible now, but were). ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-quoting/665517/4 "2013-08-06T22:52:22Z")
Something similar of late. [ol] [li]Select one or more quotes.[/li][li]Add in own comments.[/li][li]Preview the post.[/li][li]The preview is there but the entire comment/editing box is now empty![/li][/ol] I have to use the Backspace key (not a good idea) just to grab what I created and re-enter it into the comment/editing box. I’ve actually had to write comments in Words, copy to the comment/editing box then then submit. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-quoting/665517/5 "2013-08-07T00:50:01Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Something similar of late. > [ol] > [li]Select one or more quotes.[/li][li]Add in own comments.[/li][li]Preview the post.[/li][li]The preview is there but the entire comment/editing box is now empty![/li][/ol] For what it’s worth, I followed these steps on a handful of threads in a couple different forums and was not able to replicate. I only multi-quoted two or three posts at a time, do you usually grab many more than that? ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-quoting/665517/6 "2013-08-07T03:49:56Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#): > > For what it’s worth, I followed these steps on a handful of threads in a couple different forums and was not able to replicate. I only multi-quoted two or three posts at a time, do you usually grab many more than that? Two to three, maybe four. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-quoting/665517/7 "2013-08-07T16:51:27Z")
Well, at least I tried. Hopefully someone with admin privileges is doing similar testing, rather than just telling you that you shouldn’t be having the problem. What awful customer service that would be! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-quoting/665517/8 "2013-08-07T17:02:31Z")
Well, it was a reply to my suggestion that the ongoing server upgrade was responsible. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-quoting/665517/9 "2013-08-07T21:00:37Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#): > > Well, at least I tried. Hopefully someone with admin privileges is doing similar testing, rather than just telling you that you shouldn’t be having the problem. What awful customer service that would be! Single reply test to single quote. ETA upon preview. Quote and my response remain intact within preview. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-quoting/665517/10 "2013-08-07T21:01:54Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#): > > Well, at least I tried. Hopefully someone with admin privileges is doing similar testing, rather than just telling you that you shouldn’t be having the problem. What awful customer service that would be! > [@Irishman](#): > > Well, it was a reply to my suggestion that the ongoing server upgrade was responsible. Double quote. ETA upon preview. Both quotes and my response remain intact within preview. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-quoting/665517/11 "2013-08-07T21:05:01Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Server upgrade is finished. To the best of my knowledge nothing else is scheduled; we’re done. > [@Irishman](#): > > Just happened again in this [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=324468). Selected a couple quotes, opened the reply window, they weren’t visible. Opened [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=15590169) to get the quotes to appear (not visible now, but were). > [@Lord\_Ashtar](#): > > For what it’s worth, I followed these steps on a handful of threads in a couple different forums and was not able to replicate. I only multi-quoted two or three posts at a time, do you usually grab many more than that? > [@Lord\_Ashtar](#): > > Well, at least I tried. Hopefully someone with admin privileges is doing similar testing, rather than just telling you that you shouldn’t be having the problem. What awful customer service that would be! > [@Irishman](#): > > Well, it was a reply to my suggestion that the ongoing server upgrade was responsible. Five separate quotes, with one containing two links. ETA upon preview. All quotes and my response remain intact within preview. ETA2. All remain AOK with multiple previews. I wonder if the addition of external URL links might be causing this problem. I’ve only experienced this using external links in a post. ETA3. Or Tuba’s comment the server upgrade has been completed may mean we have stable platform once again. Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-quoting/665517/12 "2013-08-08T18:17:36Z")
**Duckster** , I appreciate the effort. Unfortunately, this is an intermittent problem, so the success of a few attempts in one thread does not demonstrate it is not still happening. It has occurred for me as recently as yesterday. It doesn’t happen every thread. I know at least one other person observed this occurring. It did come up in a previous thread related to the server issues, but I was unable to locate that thread (not that I searched very hard). At that time, I could hit refresh and it would reload the edit window, and would include the quoted material. Now refresh does not help for me. The other poster described the same behavior. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-quoting/665517/13 "2013-08-09T23:09:47Z")
People testing this should note what browser(s) they use. It’s entirely possible that this only occurs in particular individual browsers.