I'm an idiot...

[DocHorton]

Obviously I'm not smart enough to figure out how to do a double quote of someone else's post....

If someone has "quoted" and responded to someone else's post, how can you re-quote both of those posts and put yours as the third? Make sense?

Or how do you quote two different posts and respond to them separately in the same (new) post?

[superdog]

Originally Posted by DocHorton

Obviously I'm not smart enough to figure out how to do a double quote of someone else's post....

If someone has "quoted" and responded to someone else's post, how can you re-quote both of those posts and put yours as the third? Make sense?

Or how do you quote two different posts and respond to them separately in the same (new) post?

Open a new browser page for each of the multiple quotes.

Do the quote function. And then cut and paste the whole thing of each one. Into one page.

At least that’s how I do it. It’s a pain. So I don’t do it much. Especially as I’m typically on my phone.

[GerardoG]

Just click on the ‘+’ icon to the right of the ‘quite’ button on all posts you want to quote. Click quote on the last one

[superdog]

Originally Posted by GerardoG

Just click on the ‘+’ icon to the right of the ‘quite’ button on all posts you want to quote. Click quote on the last one

Crap. So much easier than what I was doing.

[superdog]

Originally Posted by superdog

Crap. So much easier than what I was doing.

Originally Posted by GerardoG

Just click on the ‘+’ icon to the right of the ‘quite’ button on all posts you want to quote. Click quote on the last one

Originally Posted by superdog

Open a new browser page for each of the multiple quotes.

Do the quote function. And then cut and paste the whole thing of each one. Into one page.

At least that’s how I do it. It’s a pain. So I don’t do it much. Especially as I’m typically on my phone.

Wow.

[DocHorton]

Originally Posted by GerardoG

Just click on the ‘+’ icon to the right of the ‘quite’ button on all posts you want to quote. Click quote on the last one

Originally Posted by superdog

Crap. So much easier than what I was doing.

Originally Posted by superdog

Wow.

At least I'm not the only idiot.

Seriously, there has to be a better way.....I want it to show a quote inside of a quote. The way I just did it doesn't show which response is in response to whom....

[FTX I]

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[TheVTCGuy]

Originally Posted by DocHorton

At least I'm not the only idiot.

Seriously, there has to be a better way.....I want it to show a quote inside of a quote. The way I just did it doesn't show which response is in response to whom....

I admit to being a Dorklehead but I do not understand what you are trying to acomplish

[junamuan]

Originally Posted by GerardoG

Just click on the ‘+’ icon to the right of the ‘quite’ button on all posts you want to quote. Click quote on the last one

Originally Posted by superdog

Crap. So much easier than what I was doing.

Originally Posted by superdog

Wow.

This is pretty handy. I just click the multiple quote icon and boom!

[encarter13]

Originally Posted by superdog

Wow.

Seth...You have over 15k post and you just figured this out?

(I'm laughing WITH you, not at you...)

[mfer]

Originally Posted by superdog

Wow.

[SearChart]

Originally Posted by superdog

Wow.

this is too good

[DocHorton]

Originally Posted by GerardoG

Just click on the ‘+’ icon to the right of the ‘quite’ button on all posts you want to quote. Click quote on the last one

This is how it should look...just like in PM's when you respond back and forth it stacks them.

Can this be done easily? On other forums it's a single click....

[FTX I]

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[Bluside]

Originally Posted by GerardoG

Just click on the ‘+’ icon to the right of the ‘quite’ button on all posts you want to quote. Click quote on the last one

Thanks. I never knew that button was there and just had enlarge it to se the +. Old eyes.

[Vivalas]

I’m an even bigger idiot - I don’t know how to do it either and still not sure even after reading this.

The only + I can find is in he top right of my iPad which opens another browser . . . . I’m still lost

[TheVTCGuy]

Originally Posted by Vivalas

I’m an even bigger idiot - I don’t know how to do it either and still not sure even after reading this.

The only + I can find is in he top right of my iPad which opens another browser . . . . I’m still lost

Look in the bottom right hand corner, you see the “quote” button and right next to it a similar one with quotes and a plus sign + That is the multiple quote button.

[Vivalas]

Originally Posted by TheVTCGuy

Look in the bottom right hand corner, you see the “quote” button and right next to it a similar one with quotes and a plus sign + That is the multiple quote button.

Aha thanks, I’ve seen it. I’ll try it tonight

[520Matt]

Originally Posted by Chewbacca

You’re not an idiot.

Originally Posted by TheVTCGuy

Look in the bottom right hand corner, you see the “quote” button and right next to it a similar one with quotes and a plus sign + That is the multiple quote button.

Thanks Paul. I didn’t know how to do this either

[TC94]

Originally Posted by DocHorton

The multi quote button doesn't tell you who responded to whom. It just takes each quote individually.

Maybe I'm not explaining this well, Lol...

I'll post a pic...

Nested quotes can end up filling a lot of page space on a site. Readers end up doing a lot of scrolling past all the multiple quotes to get to the new comments. Sometimes those comments get dwarfed by the quote box and are hard to spot. At least to my old eyes.

Originally Posted by DocHorton

The problem with doing it that way is no one knows to whom or what those posts were in response to....

Responding like this between each quote can help somewhat.

Originally Posted by Vivalas

I’m an even bigger idiot - I don’t know how to do it either and still not sure even after reading this.

The only + I can find is in he top right of my iPad which opens another browser . . . . I’m still lost

Here you go. Hit the quotation marks for each desired post but hit “quote” on the last one you wish to include.

[brandrea]

Originally Posted by GerardoG

Just click on the ‘+’ icon to the right of the ‘quite’ button on all posts you want to quote. Click quote on the last one

Yep

[DARK_KNIGHT]

One caveat. You cannot just click the multi-quote button once, you have to do it for each post you want to respond to.

What I do is, I read each reply, if something strikes me , I click the multi-quote button each time, and I keep reading. Once I am finished , I then hit the reply button and every single multi-quote I was interested in, will appear. I then look for where they end and then post below each one.



1. Read the thread.

2. Hit multi-quote each time you want to reply to something.

3. At the end of all the quotes .............hit post reply. (to the left at the bottom of the screen).

4. Find where each quote begins and ends............post below each one.

[crew]

Originally Posted by junamuan

This is pretty handy. I just click the multiple quote icon and boom!

Yep!

Originally Posted by DocHorton

The problem with doing it that way is no one knows to whom or what those posts were in response to....

If you do it this way they do.

Originally Posted by mfer

Originally Posted by brandrea

Yep

Got it!

Originally Posted by DARK_KNIGHT

One caveat. You cannot just click the multi-quote button once, you have to do it for each post you want to respond to.

What I do is, I read each reply, if something strikes me , I click the multi-quote button each time, and I keep reading. Once I am finished , I then hit the reply button and every single multi-quote I was interested in, will appear. I then look for where they end and then post below each one.



1. Read the thread.

2. Hit multi-quote each time you want to reply to something.

3. At the end of all the quotes .............hit post reply. (to the left at the bottom of the screen).

4. Find where each quote begins and ends............post below each one.

Great instructions!!
I gotta say, this place is special. Not many forums would get this kind of member help for others.
Very cool.

[Andad]

Originally Posted by DARK_KNIGHT

One caveat. You cannot just click the multi-quote button once, you have to do it for each post you want to respond to.

What I do is, I read each reply, if something strikes me , I click the multi-quote button each time, and I keep reading. Once I am finished , I then hit the reply button and every single multi-quote I was interested in, will appear. I then look for where they end and then post below each one.



1. Read the thread.

2. Hit multi-quote each time you want to reply to something.

3. At the end of all the quotes .............hit post reply. (to the left at the bottom of the screen).

4. Find where each quote begins and ends............post below each one.

Wow, you have no limits Jack.

As for Seth I will let the tribe decide......

Sorry Seth.

[77T]

Or just use TapaTalk and click this icon:




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[Snow-Dweller]

Originally Posted by 77T

Or just use TapaTalk and click this icon:




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Where does one find this icon on Tapatalk?

[DocHorton]

I don't understand why when you quote a post it doesn't quote the whole thing.

[FTX I]

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[DocHorton]

The multi quote button doesn't tell you who responded to whom. It just takes each quote individually.

Maybe I'm not explaining this well, Lol...

I'll post a pic...

[DocHorton]

See this picture...each quoted post stays in the string of posts. If I quoted the post "I'm an FFL...." Then all of the previous posts would continue in the string above it because they were all responses to each other. They aren't each split up like they are on here, so you can tell who responded to whom in the string. Or I have the option of only quoting the last post if I wish. Basically, you can "quote all" or just quote the bottom one.


Make sense?