How to know which post someone is replying to

[Kevin Slater]

How can I tell which post someone is replying to? I'll often see "great post!" or something, but I have no idea which post from all those above the guy is referring to.

 

Kevin Slater

[+ Truereview]

Great post!

[mike carey]

Smart arse!

[+ Truereview]

Too funny!

[Guy Fawkes]

Great Post! (all depends on them)

Smart arse!

[+ nycman]

OMG.....that's the Best Post Ever!

[+ Truereview]

You, sir, are a racist!

[+ nycman]

Your post is soooooo WRONG!

[+ SundayZip]

Great post!

 

Thank-you.

[AdamSmith]

"The main obligation is to amuse yourself."

S.J. Perelman

[bigvalboy]

"The main obligation is to amuse yourself."

S.J. Perelman

This....

[+ deej]

How can I tell which post someone is replying to? I'll often see "great post!" or something, but I have no idea which post from all those above the guy is referring to.

 

If they don't quote the post they're replying to you can't tell. The loss of threading is one of my biggest gripes in ALMOST ALL web-based message boards that are not proprietary/self-built.

[gallahadesquire]

Be Kind to one another, and ALWAYS quote what you are referring to, even if it's just the previous post. Then questions like this don't come up, and I assume the entire data taken from the quote is just enough to say {[usename] & [numetical post or some other ID]}. Kind of like the way posting pictures works around here.

[+ deej]

Be Kind to one another, and ALWAYS quote what you are referring to, even if it's just the previous post. Then questions like this don't come up, and I assume the entire data taken from the quote is just enough to say {[usename] & [numetical post or some other ID]}. Kind of like the way posting pictures works around here.

 

The easy way to quote is to hit the "reply" link in the lower right corner of the post you're replying to (as I did here). It will automatically be quoted. (You can edit out the part(s) you're not replying to. Just don't mess with the brackets around quote/endquote.)

[gallahadesquire]

The easy way to quote is to hit the "reply" link in the lower right corner of the post you're replying to (as I did here). It will automatically be quoted. (You can edit out the part(s) you're not replying to. Just don't mess with the brackets around quote/endquote.)

Thank you, Sir. It's what I meant.

[East2West]

The easy way to quote is to hit the "reply" link in the lower right corner of the post you're replying to (as I did here). It will automatically be quoted. (You can edit out the part(s) you're not replying to. Just don't mess with the brackets around quote/endquote.)

 

Another option, when just wanting to use a single sentence or small portion of quote, is to right click and highlight the single sentence or whatever portion of the post you want to use and the +quote bubble pops up. Click that and then click the insert quote button in the area where you are typing your response:

It will automatically be quoted.

 

It also prevents accidentally messing with the quote/endquote command characters and brackets:

Just don't mess with the brackets around quote/endquote

[Kevin Slater]

Another option, when just wanting to use a single sentence or small portion of quote, is to right click and highlight the single sentence or whatever portion of the post you want to use and the +quote bubble pops up. Click that and then click the insert quote button in the area where you are typing your response:

 

Oh, cool. Didn't know that.

 

Kevin Slater

[mike carey]

Oh, cool. Didn't know that.

Kevin, don't be like that!

[+ nycman]

Oh, cool

 

Sooo cool.....

 

I always wondered how you freaks had so much time to paste together multiple snipet quotes.

[+ glennnn]

Can't we also use the @ key + the name of the poster we want to refer to? As in @deej . I believe this gives the poster an alert..??

[+ deej]

Can't we also use the @ key + the name of the poster we want to refer to? As in @deej . I believe this gives the poster an alert..??

 

You can, but in complicated threads it may be difficult to know which post you're replying to. What's so difficult about clicking "reply"? It's less work than typing someone's name.

[+ glennnn]

@deej

I'm crushed! I've been on the forum for almost a year, and apparently you haven't figured out that I prefer things to be as hard as possible. Seriously, I never used the reply button, but I will now.

[+ Truereview]

I think I've fallen in love with you. Come over now

[+ José Soplanucas]

I think I've fallen in love with you. Come over now

I'm on my way. Put the empanadas in the oven.

[+ Truereview]

I'm on my way. Put the empanadas in the oven.

Lol! Are you just appropriating my post that I just put out there in the wind? Very bullish of ya . Olé!

PS...I had freshly baked empanadas today. Sitting here in Buenos Aires getting sleepy.