How do you quote somebody in your mesage?

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While I am browsing through the forums, I see some people have posts that say

quote:
somebody else’s message.

Then their own message. How do I do that?

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You can use quote tags that look like this:

[quote****]
Text you are quoting[/quo****te]

to get

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But is there a way to quote somebody’s message without retyping it? For example lets in a thread there are 200 posts and I want to quote post #123, is there a way to do that without retyping the user’s message?

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Drag your mouse to select the text, then copy and paste. (I do that to make sure I am quoting people correctly, as well as to save typing).

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…let’s see if it works. I have never done this before! I always just use “@ [username]” Thanks!

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testing only

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You can also add the “=User Name” to show who you are quoting from.

[noparse]

[/noparse]
will show up as

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Furthermore, you can add a semicolon after the username, followed by the post ID, to include an arrow in the quote that serves as a link to the post that is being quoted.

For example:
[noparse]

[/noparse]

… will come out as:

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Why doesn’t CC just enable the “quote” button that is standard on vB?

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I have no idea. They have stripped so much of the vBulletin functionality and made the site so bare-bones for some reason. One thing I’d really like to have is the WYSIWYG editor so that I don’t have to hand-code my formatting, lists, etc.

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That changes the tone of discussions. Site management has observed the behavior of users at sites with other defaults, and likes the defaults here better. As you can see, it’s not insuperably hard to quote a post here if need be.

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It’s still pretty easy to quote posts: click the “Reply” link for the post you want to quote, scroll to the bottom of the page and check the “Quote message in reply?” box.

<h2>I hope this helps.</h2>

Danny
University of California, Berkeley '09 (B.S.)

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^ That doesn’t work. For me anyways, and I would assume everyone else would have tried this already seeing how obvious it is.

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Yeah, they disabled that as well. It doesn’t (and hasn’t ever, for as long as I’ve been here) work.

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Text you are quotingText you are quoting

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hmmm just testing

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“test/”

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