How to Use the Quote Feature

[Stoloniferous]

In many threads it becomes difficult after a point to tell who is speaking to whom. There is a tool to help with this problem! Notice, when you reply to someone, that there is a button to the bottom and right of the text that you wish to reply to. Let me demonstrate. . .

[Stoloniferous]

Originally Posted by Stoloniferous

In many threads it becomes difficult after a point to tell who is speaking to whom. There is a tool to help with this problem! Notice, when you reply to someone, that there is a button to the bottom and right of the text that you wish to reply to. Let me demonstrate. . .

There. When you press the button, it puts the entire block of text in between a pair of tags that, once posted, cause the text to be drawn up in a tidy box!

[Stoloniferous]

Originally Posted by Stoloniferous

. . .a tidy box!

You can also edit down the contents of the quoted text so that it takes up less room, or gets to the point. When doing this, it is polite to use ". . ." to indicate that a part of the text has been left out.

[Stoloniferous]

Originally Posted by Stoloniferous

You can also edit . . .

Originally Posted by Stoloniferous

. . .takes up less room. . .

Originally Posted by Stoloniferous

. . .text has been left out.

You can use as many quote boxes in one post as you like!

[hazelnut]

a tidy box? sounds like those two British women who clean up people with messy houses!

[Stoloniferous]

Originally Posted by Tom

Blah blah bla?

Originally Posted by Dick

Oh yes, blah!

Originally Posted by Harry

With the help of a word processor, you can copy and paste quotes from multiple people into a single post. You can even quote smilies!

[Stoloniferous]

Originally Posted by hazelnut

a tidy box? sounds like those two British women who clean up people with messy houses!

Haha! Thanks

Anyway, feel free to use this thread to test out the quote feature. Cheers!

[hazelnut]

the main problem I have is getting back to where the quote goes. copy url, back to WLG, then back to url to copy quote and then what?

[Equilibrium]

I'm lost. Can't we just use " and "? I don't see where smilies come from.

[Stoloniferous]

"I'm lost. Can't we just use " and "?"

Sure, you can just type in quotes if you want to. But the option to quote just by pushing a button is there as well.

(The real confusion arises when someone just types in a reply to something posted five posts earlier without any sort of quote.)

"I don't see where smilies come from."

When you start to type your reply, look just to the right of the typing field. If you have smilies enabled, you will see a collection of silly little faces like this: . Click on one to add it. Viola!