Ooh, thanks, that’s useful to know. I usually resort to deleting a period or comma from the post I’m trying to quote, which makes me a little uneasy.
You’re welcome!
Also, if you try quoting somebody and the quote disappears when you post, you can click ‘edit’ (the little pencil icon), position your cursor at the top, then click the little word balloon icon at the top left of the posting menu. That adds the quote back in and this time Discourse doesn’t remove it when you save.
I knew you would say that.
Easy. You truncate their post to say…
…quote me on this…
Pitting in the elipses makes it legal.
Great typo!
Well, since you didn’t quote me on that, I have half a mind to fix it (since I’m currently in the edit window).
Too late, I’ve preserved the original.
You are a goddamn genius.
I must humbly disagree. “Pitting” for “putting” is a forgivable typo, no problem there. But “elipses”? No. If a plural was intended it should have been “ellipses”, but why the plural? There’s only one. So “ellipsis”.
An actual goddamn genius would never commit such transgressions, knowing that they would subject them to ridicule from any passing critic of orthography…
Regards,
Your ever-vigilant local pedant
It was the creative truncation that I was more impressed by.
Impressive, of course. But clearly we’re not dealing here with a full-fledged polymath, a veritable modern Renaissance man! 
Not sure if this is the right thread for this. I sure as heck don’t want to draw a lot of special attention to minor lapses by good posters, but I do want to comment, so here goes:
When you are posting in a MPSIMS thread about a tragedy someone has just experienced, please read everything by the OP before you ask questions about/comment on what happened. Two posters have made remarks that show they didn’t read the OP’s posts beyond the initial one: Yes, she had children, and the person who struck her was killed as well - it’s right there if you read everything she had to say before you post.
I suppose on some level it hardly matters because the grief must be so intense that responding to unnecessary questions/repeating already stated facts can’t possibly make matters worse. But still. I for one am careful to read ALL posts by the OP before I say anything in a thread like that one.
Probably a best practice for us all. I know I’ve called people out in various Pit threads for NOT reading anything past the title, or the OP, and ignoring everything in the middle, so your concern seems fair.
And you’re more generous than most in that you didn’t name names. 
Though, as we have a clean thread title, we can link back to non-Pit threads as it’s not a direct insult the way the parent Troll thread is.
I noticed that as well.
I don’t think questioning a grieving person at all is ever a good idea. I’m sure Johanna will tell the story. If she wants.
It’s certainly not our business to know everything.
I remember when a poster told the OP of a thread she was sorry her very ill mother had died, but hadn’t bothered to read far enough into the thread to see her mother had been cured.
I agree. I noticed that as well. It’s annoying at the best of times but when it’s about a very tragic personal event – and the thread isn’t really excessively long – it seems like common courtesy to at least read the OP’s other comments before chiming in about something that’s already been answered.
“I feel so sorry for this horrible loss you experienced, which would devastate anyone, and I care enough to post about it, but I don’t care enough to read more than a few posts before giving my condolences.”
That’s how that comes off to me. I am sure people mean well but at the same time if you’re going to try to offer comfort, make more of an effort to be sincere about it.
I will become the Joker.
You only need to read the title to want to add sincere condolences.
If you really feel the need to add anything else … yeah, read the thread.
Good point.