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May 25, 2021, 04:28 PM | #1 | |
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quoting post with author's name in it?
How to you quote a post with the author's name as well as the post?
Example: Quote:
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"I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a 'temporary license to exist'—in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government—it doesn't own you."- Frank Zappa |
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May 25, 2021, 06:16 PM | #2 |
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I do it manually, since the auto quote feature is turned off for this site.
First, I highlight what I want to quote and hit CTRL+C to copy it to the clipboard. Then I open a reply window and click the icon for a quote. That leaves me with a place to insert the cursor and paste the quote, like this: [quote][/quote] I put the cursor between the two sets of quote tags and hit CTRL+V to paste the quote. Now I have this: [quote]Quoted text goes here[/quote] Now ... go to the opening quote tag. Enter an equal sign after "quote" and then type the screen name of the person you are quoting: [quote=FITASC]Quoted text goes here[/quote] I'm sure there's an easier way to do it, but I've been doing it that way for years and it always works.
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May 25, 2021, 06:19 PM | #3 | ||
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"I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a 'temporary license to exist'—in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government—it doesn't own you."- Frank Zappa |
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May 26, 2021, 12:03 AM | #4 | |
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Doing all that (it's far easier to do than to describe) will accomplish what you want to do. I have done that with your first post as an example. The small icon to the immediate right of the quoted member's name is a link to the original post. I would suggest editing the resultant post to remove any of the quoted post that isn't pertinent to your reply. It's sometimes annoying to see a long post quoted just so the member can add a one liner. |
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May 26, 2021, 08:39 AM | #5 |
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Thanks!
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