# "You have selected 3 posts" message?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-selected-3-posts-message/514293>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [October 19, 2009, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-selected-3-posts-message/514293 "2009-10-19T04:30:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-selected-3-posts-message/514293/1 "2009-10-19T04:30:55Z")

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I’ve been getting the following message under the entry box lately when I’m typing a reply to a post.

> [@](#):
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> You have selected 3 posts that are not part of this thread. Quote these posts as well, or deselect these posts.

This isn’t true, or at least I don’t think so. What is it supposed to mean? Who else is getting this?

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-selected-3-posts-message/514293/2 "2009-10-19T04:35:02Z")

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You get that message if you use the multi-quote button and then surf over to another thread without replying.

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-selected-3-posts-message/514293/3 "2009-10-19T08:41:26Z")

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… Huhn. I didn’t even know there was a multiquote option…

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-selected-3-posts-message/514293/4 "2009-10-19T12:38:28Z")

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Yeah. Click on the little box with the close quotes/plus symbols for each post you want to quote, then go to the “post reply” box – they’ll all show up, in the order you clicked them.

If you then go to a different thread without using those quotes in a post, they’ll follow you around till you either use them or deselect them.

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-selected-3-posts-message/514293/5 "2009-10-19T16:36:47Z")

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I thought of that but I also thought I had replied to those quotes in that thread. Of course I don’t remember what thread that might have been in and I’m not about to go through everything and check.

I’ll just deselect next time I see it.