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1. There are two ways to reply to a post:

• a: Click on the "post reply" button. This will give you an entire topic review at the bottom of the page.
  b: Click on "quote" to reply to a specific message, quoting the message and the poster's user name. You can then delete the parts of the message you don't want to quote.

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Kevin Solway wrote:1. There are two ways to reply to a post:
a: Click on the "post reply" button. This will give you an entire topic review at the bottom of the page.
b: Click on "quote" to reply to a specific message, quoting the message and the poster's user name. You can then delete the parts of the message you don't want to quote.

As an extension to b: if you only want to quote a specific part of someone else's post in your response, when posting your reply first select the text that interests you, then click on the "quote" button. The selected text with the all the proper quote tags are then placed into your response box. You can do this as many times as you like, and is useful for larger posts where you may want to respond to various individual points successively without having to delete or modify the parts of the poster's text you don't want.

Robert wrote:As an extension to b: if you only want to quote a specific part of someone else's post in your response, when posting your reply first select the text that interests you, then click on the "quote" button. The selected text with the all the proper quote tags are then placed into your response box. You can do this as many times as you like, and is useful for larger posts where you may want to respond to various individual points successively without having to delete or modify the parts of the poster's text you don't want.

Whoa, Robert! You didn't explain this very well, but I figured out what you meant. If you want to quote just a part, the FIRST thing you do is hit the POSTREPLY button, THEN select the text that interests you, etc. You want the response box open first.

I didn't know this.

Two thousand fucking posts later, I finally know the easy way to quote.

Thanks, Robert! Holy shit! Just goes to show I ain't no friggin' genius!

Yeah, you're right, I should've explained it a little better, and it's more an extension to a: than it is to b:, but hey ho.
Glad you find it useful.

I found this function by pure chance one day... Well, not really pure chance, there were infinite causal factors involved ;)

brokenhead wrote:the FIRST thing you do is hit the POSTREPLY button, THEN select the text that interests you, etc. You want the response box open first.

That's useful. I didn't know that either.