Quotes cannot be edited ?
May be raised before, but I seem to be unable to remove less salient points from a quote, to those that I would like to comment upon, when replying to a thread.
A new feature ? Or just something I have missed ?
Rgds
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The only way you can do it is to copy & paste and then edit out the unwanted bits. You can the embolden and italicise the quote to make it clear it is a quote, but you do lose the information about who made the original statement which is often useful.
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I think it's done to stop people misrepresenting others by altering their original posts. Having had that happen to me in the old CT, I'm glad it can no longer occur.
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Me to TW, it has prevented parts of quotes being taken out of context. I sometimes pick up on someone's text but try to avoid it, I prefer to see the whole quote and who wrote it.
I recall the Community Manager said this was the reason for the change.
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Tony
I have moved your post here as it's the right place to discuss forum usability issues.
I would agree with TW and Brue regarding the reason. It's the same with having a limited time for users to edit their own post. I can understand that you might not want to quote a very long post just to answer one part of it and the copy and paste option mentioned by Moulsey is really the best option. Perhaps I could urge members to really consider if a quote is required in the first place. I can see if it's a technical subject but general discussions I am not always sure it is necessary?
David
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David, without quoting you, I find that sometimes I am referring to or replying to a post that has several other posts between me and it and my post may make no sense in the flow of the topic without anchoring it with a quotation. Make any sense of that because it almost confused me?!
Otherwise I agree that the quoting of posts is not necessary but there are certain posters who use it all the time. Not sure what you can do.
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I quote for the very reason you've given, WN. I reply to you but a couple of other posts sneak in while I'm typing and the whole thing ends up as a nonsensical mess with no option to insert the quote via edit. At least we don't get 6 inches of quotes all down the page now.
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