How to Quote Posts - Tutorial

[Frisbee]

Hi All.

In an effort to keep threads organized, I believe it would greatly benefit people if they knew quote others. If I'm answer someone's post, it's much more organized if I have a quote of what they said, and other people will know what I'm talking about.

So here's how you quote posts.

First copy the desired post.
Next, got to the reply box and paste the copied post.
At the beginning of the post you just pasted, type: [QUOTE*]
At the end of the of the post you pasted, type: [/QUOTE*]
Remove the stars, I added them here so you could see the quote text.

[QUOTE*]Quoted message [/QUOTE*]

Remove the stars and it looks like:

Quoted message

Hope this helps

[suzy100]

Testing

First copy the desired post.
Next, got to the reply box and paste the copied post.

OK, typing more text because message was too short.

[suzy100]

Thank you! That does help.

I have to say that I can't believe it's so hard to do that. I'm really surprised that TPTB can't make it simpler. For every other board I've been on, it's been at most a 2-step process.

[Frisbee]

Thank you! That does help.

I have to say that I can't believe it's so hard to do that. I'm really surprised that TPTB can't make it simpler. For every other board I've been on, it's been at most a 2-step process.

Yeah, a lot of forums just have a quote button by each post; hopefully College Confidential implements this soon.

[anotheraccount]

Originally Posted by suzy100

Testing...OK, typing more text because message was too short.

Me too...Testing!

[cadave]

In an effort to keep threads organized, I believe it would greatly benefit people if they knew quote others. If I'm answer someone's post, it's much more organized if I have a quote of what they said, and other people will know what I'm talking about.

I guess what's in the quote doesn't count.

[wayneandgarth]

I guess what's in the quote doesn't count.

I guess it does work

[Lenitus]

In reply to the recommendations that we implement an easier way to quote, please see this discussion from a few years back explaining why we don't:

Can we get a quote button?

Thanks!

[lanilla12]

hi i am interested in being a musical theatre major. My current GPA is 3.2 what would i have to do to bring it up? Im going to be a junior but i really need good grades because i want to get into a drama senior program at a boarding school for my senior year. i have a hard time test taking.

[Sikorsky]

Time for a tutorial on how to start a new thread!

[jandjdad]

And if you want to include the name of the person who posted the words you're quoting, just add it to the beginning of the string so instead of
[QUOTE*]Quoted message [/QUOTE*]
it becomes,
[QUOTE=nameofposter] Quoted message [/QUOTE*]

example

Originally Posted by frisbee

Hi All.

[oliviagc]

So here's how you quote posts.

I'm testing this quote thing.

[stillastudent]

Hi All.

In an effort to keep threads organized, I believe it would greatly benefit people if they knew quote others. If I'm answer someone's post, it's much more organized if I have a quote of what they said, and other people will know what I'm talking about.

testing, hope it works

[NewHavenCTmom]

post.

Hmmm hope this works.. looks iffy...

[NewHavenCTmom]

Originally Posted by newhavenmomct

Hmmm hope this works.. looks iffy...

Can we have a "feels accomplished" button...