Replies with quotes not being quote-able, messages vanishing

[Drunky_Smurf]

@Askthepizzaguy

First things first, I disabled my ad blocker for this entire site, and I have tried with WYSIWYG editor and with the code visible. None of that has any effect.

I can reply to certain posts with quote, and others, nothing appears at all when I try that option. I type up messages with posts quoted that I have replied to, and I preview the message (have to, because of the board’s incredibly tiny edit window) and the entire message, the quotes, the text I typed, it all vanishes.

It makes it particularly difficult to respond to certain threads. Lots of my work vanishes or replying to people is impossible. Additionally, some posts with a quote are preview-able and then post-able, but once I do, if I try to edit the post within the window, the text all vanishes. Quotes and body.

The problem is intermittent but significant and persistent. It happens in most of the threads I’m active in, and most of the posts I try to respond to. It doesn’t happen all the time. Quotes seem to trigger it, but not always. I’m not touching the quotes most of the time. Just throwing quote tags around text I type myself causes the same issue, I believe it is the cause anyway. But because the problem is intermittent and doesn’t happen under the same sets of circumstances all the time, I can’t rule out the idea that it isn’t actually the quotes causing this.

Running Windows 8.1, Firefox as the browser.

Doesn’t happen on any other vBulletin board I frequent, just here.

@engineer_comp_geek

I haven’t heard of that one before. You might want to check your computer for malware and maybe re-install Firefox. What version of Firefox are you running, by the way?

One thing you can do is edit your reply in a text editor (notepad or whatever) and then copy and paste it into the reply box when you are done. That way if it screws up, all you need to do is copy and paste it again and you won’t lose anything.

Is anyone else having this problem?

@Askthepizzaguy

It says it is version 47.0.1, but it just updated itself to tell me that.

The copy to notepad method works, but when reply with quote doesn’t work, it makes the end result of cutting and pasting and linking back to the original post so ugly looking, and the additional steps are a bit tedious. I’d love it if I could just consistently get those quoted replies with the embedded links every time.

It also makes editing posts complicated since you can copy/paste and lose all your formatting in wordpad, and putting the formatting back in makes me miss the edit window sometimes.

I run malwarebytes and spybot, keep them updated and scan with both weekly, and this has been going on for longer than that. Was hoping me talking about it would cause someone else to say “yeah it happens to me too” so we can sort it out.

@Askthepizzaguy

I tried a weird approach, I tried multi-quoting the messages I was having trouble replying to with quote, and they did not appear at all when I was ready to reply.

It’s like the board is simply forgetting that *any *text exists in certain posts, whether I’m replying to them, previewing, or editing them. Goes for my posts and other people’s posts, alike.

@Bone

I tried both single quote and multi quote which I’ve never used before and they both seemed to work.

@Shodan

Above are the result of the multi-quote. It seems to work. I am using IE version 11.0.9600.18314.

Regards,
Shodan

@kayaker

Windows 10, Firefox 47.0.1

Works for me too.

W.10 IE.11