How do I use Multi-Quote?

jadetrucker43 said:If you’re looking to pull in a few different posts at once, just hit that "Multi-Quote" option—it's right there next to the standard Quote button—for every message you want to reference, except for the very last one. Once you've tagged them all, just click the regular Quote button on that final post. Everything should automatically wrap itself in those quote tags, giving you the freedom to clean up any fluff, bold the parts that actually matter, or slide your own commentary in between the blocks of text. It's pretty straightforward, really.

redhawk76 said:No, that wouldn't quite work the way you're thinking...
Where am I missing the mark? If you could provide some more specific guidance, I’d appreciate it.

My current process is a bit of a cumbersome workaround—I tend to hit Quote, copy the entire block, strip out the parts I don't need, write my response, then paste the whole thing back in just to prune it again, and repeat the cycle indefinitely.

redhawk76 said:It seems we’ve hit another snag...

jadetrucker43 said:If you’re looking to pull in a few different posts at once, just hit that "Multi-Quote" option—it's right there next to the standard Quote button—for every message you want to reference, except for the very last one. Once you've tagged them all, just click the regular Quote button on that final post. Everything should automatically wrap itself in those quote tags, giving you the freedom to clean up any fluff, bold the parts that actually matter, or slide your own commentary in between the blocks of text. It's pretty straightforward, really.

redhawk76 said:It seems we’ve hit another snag...

jadetrucker43 said:If you’re looking to pull in a few different posts at once, just hit that "Multi-Quote" option—it's right there next to the standard Quote button—for every message you want to reference, except for the very last one. Once you've tagged them all, just click the regular Quote button on that final post. Everything should automatically wrap itself in those quote tags, giving you the freedom to clean up any fluff, bold the parts that actually matter, or slide your own commentary in between the blocks of text. It's pretty straightforward, really.

remove any unnecessary text, bold the important parts, or insert your own comments between quotes.

Pangloss;23521809 said:

Highlight the specific text you want to reply to and click this last icon.

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Click the rectangular icon (you can also find it under the Quick Response section).

hmm

Which says "Wrap

tags around selected text"

An extra quote?🙂>

Spectre;23687956 said:If you want to quote multiple different posts, just select the "Multi-Quote" option

Click the button to the right of the Quote button for all the posts you want to include, then simply hit the standard Quote button on the final post you want to cite.

All those selected posts will be added automatically.

Lisa Myers said:I'm doing the exact same thing, I swear...🤷

Alright, let me try this again... I'll quote both your post and mine using that method. Only mine should show up. Watch this 🤣:

jadetrucker43 said:It’s working perfectly fine for me. I just click on , it turns into , which effectively means the number of quotes you want minus one. Then, once I'm done, I just hit on the last one and boom—everything is bundled into a single post. Simple enough, right?

jadetrucker43 said:I’m betting the issue lies somewhere within the browser itself. If you've got an ad-blocker running—something like NoScript, for instance—you’ll probably need to whitelist the site to get things moving properly.

Otherwise, it might just be a matter of tweaking your settings to allow cookies or adjusting some other privacy restriction in your browser options.

You can also do it 'manually.'
AltGr + F = [

AltGr + G = ]

At the start, you write:

(without the period)

The end of the post looks messy like this.

At the end, you write:

(without the period)

jadetrucker43 said:If you’re looking to pull in a few different posts at once, just hit that "Multi-Quote" option—it's right there next to the standard Quote button—for every message you want to reference, except for the very last one. Once you've tagged them all, just click the regular Quote button on that final post. Everything should automatically wrap itself in those quote tags, giving you the freedom to clean up any fluff, bold the parts that actually matter, or slide your own commentary in between the blocks of text. It's pretty straightforward, really.

Select all the posts you want to include except for the very last one, then simply hit the Quote button on that final post.

jadetrucker43 said:If you’re looking to pull in a few different posts at once, just hit that "Multi-Quote" option—it's right there next to the standard Quote button—for every message you want to reference, except for the very last one. Once you've tagged them all, just click the regular Quote button on that final post. Everything should automatically wrap itself in those quote tags, giving you the freedom to clean up any fluff, bold the parts that actually matter, or slide your own commentary in between the blocks of text. It's pretty straightforward, really.

For every post you want to include except the last one, simply click the standard Quote button.

shadowpilot8 said:You have to do this manually. Select the specific section you want to isolate, then use Wrap Quote
That applies to every individual part. You’ll also need to delete the excess, which consists of one [ quote ] at the start and end of the text.

That applies to every individual part.

You also need to delete the extra bits. That means removing one [ quote ] from the start and end of the text.

shadowpilot8 said:The part you moved 😁
Generally, if you hit >, it inserts two tags—one before and one after the selected text. If you want to keep the original author's name, just delete that first tag, since having two won't work. You should leave the second one intact, because when you used the quote function on the post itself, it also added two tags: one at the start and one at the end.

edit: I see you figured out 👍

Normally, when you hit Wrap Quote, it places two tags—one before and one after the selected text. If you want to keep the author's name, just delete that specific part.

Use the first quote (since you can't have two) and keep the second one—the original one from when you clicked quote on the post, which also added two tags, one at the start and one at the end.

edit: Looks like you figured it out. 👍

neonfalcon99 said:

Normally, when you hit Wrap Quote, it places two tags—one before and one after the selected text. If you want to keep the author's name, just delete that specific part.

Can an author write in front of every section of a post?

Use the first quote (since you can't have two) and keep the second one—the original one from when you clicked quote on the post, which also added two tags, one at the start and one at the end.

edit: Looks like you figured it out. 👍

Now I'm missing two quotes again. 😁
Like I said, there isn't a quote tag over the last part of your post. 😬
No, I entered the quotes myself. I could have highlighted it and used Wrap Quote, but I thought since it was the last part of your post, I wouldn't need to edit it.

Hahaha, oh man, it turns out you actually answered my question. Look at the first part of the quote. 😁 Jesus.

shadowpilot8 said:😁

The point is this isn't automatic. You have to figure out which brackets go before and after the text, then it's simple. If you want the author listed for every single section, you have to copy and paste the bracket containing their name before every select.

gonna try 😁