ok, I give up

[Tobus]

Congrats! Now, there's an unwritten rule of etiquette that goes along with using quotes. If you want to reply to one specific thing that a person said, please don't quote their entire reply!

Once you hit the "quote" button and it takes you to the screen where you can type your reply, feel free to delete the irrelevant text from in between the quote tags so you can pare it down to only the relevant part. Otherwise, you can end up quoting half a page of text (along with photos and whatever else was in there), needlessly. That sort of thing really junks up the forum, making threads difficult to read, and unnecessarily using bandwidth and storage space.

So be a responsible quoter!

Also, if there are multiple posts in a thread that you want to reply to, you can hit the little button that's next to the Quote button. It's just the quotations symbol. This is called the multi-quote feature. By clicking it on each post you want to quote, and then going to the bottom of a page and clicking "Post Reply", it will take you to a reply screen with all those posts quoted.

You can then reply to each one individually, by typing in your text between them. But again, please pare it down to only the relevant portions of their replies that you want to address. Otherwise it's just maddening for others to try to read.

[Santa Wally]

Also, if there are multiple posts in a thread that you want to reply to, you can hit the little button that's next to the Quote button. It's just the quotations symbol. This is called the multi-quote feature. By clicking it on each post you want to quote, and then going to the bottom of a page and clicking "Post Reply", it will take you to a reply screen with all those posts quoted.

Thanks for that information. I wondered how the multiple quotes were made.

I tried to do it that way, using the multi-quote feature, but I must have done something wrong since the whole post showed up. It didn't work for me. The partial quote above was done by using the regular quote button then deleting everything I didn't need to quote. It works OK in this instance since that's all I wanted to quote after the multi-quote it didn't work when I tried it..

There have been times I'd really wanted to do the multi-quote from a single post. What did I do wrong or miss doing when I tried the muliti-quote feature.