Love to know how to do it though… Mostly for Trump threads. No reason.
You rock, Sunny!
Quoth Sunny Daze
Like this, nothing special just some recoding and rewording, but when someone does this, it makes it difficult to use the quote button on their post. If someone were to quote this post, even though it’s written by me (Joey P), the first line would be “Quoth Sunny Daze” and it may be attributed by other readers.
But, in general, I just never understood why people would go through the trouble. It’s like when I see a link that’s the wrong shade of blue and realize that the poster manually changed the color. Why? In both cases I can only assume it’s because they don’t understand how to use properly code (or use the built in feature) or they’re doing it specifically to stand out.
Some people hate the fact that the quote box includes the attribution, and think it should properly go outside. We have a lot of grammar/style pedants here, and this is a bugaboo for a small portion of them.
I think a compromise would be to have the top of the quote box have a clearly different background color and be set off with a bit of a border. I’ve seen that on other boards. Unfortunately, the IT here has no intention of changing the defaults.
And, well, 99.9% of Dopers are fine with things the way they are. If they wouldn’t change the smileys back when most Dopers either didn’t care or preferred the old ones, I doubt they’ll change anything for the 0.1%.
Also, I learned the hard way that I am required to work around the issue. It is my responsibility under the rules to have deleted the “Quoth Sunny Daze” in the post, lest it come off like the following came from them. I believe that may have been my first mod note.
I want to use it for Trump tweets. For example:
By putting
[Quote = Trump]
, it looks like
[QUOTE=Trump]
The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS!
[/QUOTE]
but I’d like it to read “Tweet” or something instead “Originally Posted”. I think I’ve seen people do that. Anyone know how?
ETA: Thank you Joey P and BigT for explaining the “Quoth” issue.
Sure, but you have to do it manually. I used to do this for fun.
[noparse]
[/noparse]
yields
And if you wonder how I showed the code, I put everything inside of [noparse][noparse][/noparse][/noparse] tags.
Just do what you did in the first one (no “=name”) and type “Originally Tweeted by Trump” or anything else you want as the first line of the quote.
You’d have to type it out and bold it yourself, but you could make it say anything and look however you want.
ETA: no idea how it took me five minutes to type that.
I feel a little foolish now… Thank you.