If you check, you’ll see that when the board ‘helpfully’ eats your quoted text, what has actually happened is that it went in and edited your post to remove it. After which you can go right back in and edit the post to put it back - if you do it’ll stay and not be taken out again.
You have to be pretty quick on this due to the editing time limits, of course, but I’ve done it once or twice when the quoted text was necessary for my post to make sense.
That is exactly what I do.
I just leave out the last period, or the first letter when it’s obvious what it must be, or something of that sort.
It’s always been legitimate to leave out portions of posts when doing so doesn’t change the meaning, and/or when it’s clear (such as by inserting [ . . . ] or something of the sort) that some has been left out.
Testing - I just doubled a space to your quote. Odds are the screen won’t show it, but will it still respect it as a difference?
ETA - crap - I screwed up the coding, invalidating the test. I am NOT fond of [/quote] having to be on its own line!
The issue I’ve run into is when I want to quote the entire post and break it up into sections. I know you can highlight a section, hit quote, highlight another section, hit quote again etc. But a lot of times it’s hard to know how you want to break something up until you start responding to the different sections. In the new board, you can’t just go make quote tags willy nilly. It won’t work.
One nice feature, however, is that I can quote a quote. For example, you (RitterSport) were quoted by ThelmaLou. Instead of looking for where that post was, I just highlight your quote, in her post. It’ll still be attributed to you, as you can see, but it’s going to show as a reply to her.
Breaking up a quoted post into subquotes works just like it used to - you have to remember to add a closing quote tag and copy-paste the opening quote tag, putting your response in between.
The difference, of course, being that you have to remember to put each tag on its own line. Which I forget about a third of the time, though the always-present preview helps some. Fortunately it’s a quick edit to fix.
Thanks…it’s amazing to see how familiar “faces” there are!
Hi @sarahfeena.
Yes you can. Same quote tags work, they just have to be on separate lines.
Damn, I wanted to be the traffic cone, then Becky took the race car and I had to be the iron or the scottie dog.
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So, same ol’ game, but different pieces.
Aw. The perfect place for me to post–if I still had my old avatar.
So are you saying you’d like us to steer clear of you?
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Just tried this. Mikey likes it!
That lamp was already broken before I was born.
Hang in there, man. It gets better! 
One caution when you try multi-quoting (which I think is the cause of a lot of mangled quotes around here):
When you do the second (and subsequent) quotes, the quote will be inserted into the edit window exactly where the cursor is even if that’s a bad place for it to be. There is no automatic attempt to get the placement right, not even putting the quote tags on their own line.
So before you insert additional quotes, be sure to put the cursor exactly where you want it, which must also be on an empty line by itself.
Ah, is that the trick! I’d tried to break up quotes before, and since I’d never put quote tags on their own lines back in the Before Times, I’m sure that’s what I was screwing up.
Thanks muchly for that bit of info.
And welcome back, Sarahfeena!
