# Test to try to reproduce a bug

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**Created:** [April 15, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-to-try-to-reproduce-a-bug/400159 "2007-04-15T00:24:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-to-try-to-reproduce-a-bug/400159/1 "2007-04-15T00:24:54Z")

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The “bug” I noticed was that two quote tags in a row made the whole response vanish, when I put non quoted text first.

So we’ll start with a few paragraphs

To see if this can be reproduced.

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-to-try-to-reproduce-a-bug/400159/2 "2007-04-15T00:31:05Z")

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Now, after a decent interval, I’ll try to reproduce my problem.

[QUOTE=Voyager]  
The “bug” I noticed was that two quote tags in a row made the whole response vanish, when I put non quoted text first.

[quote]

It involves putting a quote tag, not a non quote tag here.

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> So we’ll start with a few paragraphs

And the right way here.

> [@](#):
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> To see if this can be reproduced.

And there

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-to-try-to-reproduce-a-bug/400159/3 "2007-04-15T00:35:36Z")

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Interesting, but not the behavior I saw in the GD response. That had code like this, and it looked fine except for the first \</quote\> tag being a quote tag. That made the whole reply disappear there, but not here.

God must have done it. 🆒

[QUOTE=Voyager]  
Now, after a decent interval, I’ll try to reproduce my problem.

[/quote]

[QUOTE=Voyager]  
The “bug” I noticed was that two quote tags in a row made the whole response vanish, when I put non quoted text first.

> [@](#):
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> It involves putting a quote tag, not a non quote tag here.
> 
> And the right way here.
> 
> And there