# "Testing, testing" he said. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 6, 2002, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-testing-he-said/107469 "2002-05-06T02:36:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-testing-he-said/107469/1 "2002-05-06T02:36:10Z")
Ooooo-kay. > [@](#): > > What the heck is up with the “quote” function? > [@](#): > > Quote, dammit. Quote! > [@](#): > > Okay, I’m using your own damned little button, ya silly database. Is this happening to anyone else? Or did I just take the red pill or something? _Italic_. Underline **Bold** red ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-testing-he-said/107469/2 "2002-05-06T02:52:52Z")
By the way, on the off chance that I’m having some really freaky hallucination, what you _should_ be seeing in the above post is a bunch of perfectly formed “quote” and “close quote” tags, which are not resulting in anything being put into the normal quote block. They’re just sitting there, like I’d typed “[qutoe]” or some damned thing. Also, there are giant purple spiders crawling all over everything. ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-testing-he-said/107469/3 "2002-05-06T02:56:11Z")
Yes. But I’m not linking to it cause contains another coding error as well. It’s near the top of MPSIMS in the “Cities trivia” thread. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-testing-he-said/107469/4 "2002-05-06T03:16:53Z")
Okay, I was able to fix that broken link in your post in [Cities trivia…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113413), but there are indeed a number of examples of the non-functioning quote tags in that thread. All right, now. Who spilled Coke into the fabric of reality? ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-testing-he-said/107469/5 "2002-05-06T03:21:45Z")
Thank you,\*\* MEBuckner\*\*, you’re a schooner and a geranium. And I’m drinking Pepsi. ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-testing-he-said/107469/6 "2002-05-06T03:27:00Z")
And quotes are OK now. Good show. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-testing-he-said/107469/7 "2002-05-06T03:29:30Z")
Well, I didn’t fix the quotes. There are powers beyond those of a mere Moderator.