The QUOTE Function

[Cow Poke]

OK, this is not so much "civics", but it happens here SO MUCH that I'll start this here until it gets kicked elsewhere.

I have noticed a number of posters seem to pretty much freak out, or, at best, challenge other posters as being DISHONEST for quoting PART of a post.
Recently, one poster, whose name I shall not mention, but his initials are CarpeSomething () politely challenged a quote I posted because he wanted to see the actual words that were quoted "in context".

I was dumbfounded, because I used the actual QUOTE FUNCTION, which provides a hyperlink to take you back to the VERY POST from which the quote was taken, and, hence, you can see the entire context by following the hyperlinks in the quotes from those quotes, etc.

What he did NOT know (and he's a pretty smart guy, so I assume that others may also not know this) is that using the ACTUAL QUOTE FUNCTION automatically embeds a hyperlink, though it be small and unobtrusive, and apparently, easily overlooked.

Example, and a link to the discussion from which this comes...

OK, so maybe you're unaware that the little blue box to the right of the user's name in the "Originally posted by Cow Poke [box]" --- that little blue box IS the hyperlink?

That little box to the right of my name is, indeed, an automatically embedded hyperlink which will escort you henceforth and hitherto to the very material being quoted.

You're welcome.

[Cow Poke]

Example:

quote function.jpg

[MaxVel]

OK, this is not so much "civics",

And, if

but it happens here SO MUCH that I'll start this here until it gets kicked elsewhere.

you want

I have noticed a number of posters seem to pretty much freak out, or, at best, challenge other posters as being DISHONEST for quoting PART of a post.

to reply

Recently, one poster, whose name I shall not mention, but his initials are CarpeSomething () politely challenged a quote I posted because he wanted to see the actual words that were quoted "in context".

to a post

I was dumbfounded, because I used the actual QUOTE FUNCTION, which provides a hyperlink to take you back to the VERY POST from which the quote was taken, and, hence, you can see the entire context by following the hyperlinks in the quotes from those quotes, etc.

in separate

What he did NOT know (and he's a pretty smart guy, so I assume that others may also not know this) is that using the ACTUAL QUOTE FUNCTION

parts, you can

automatically embeds a hyperlink, though it be small and unobtrusive, and apparently, easily overlooked.

add in

Example, and a link to the discussion from which this comes...

extra quote=.... and /quote (in square brackets)

That little box to the right of my name is, indeed, an automatically embedded hyperlink which will escort you henceforth and hitherto to the very material being quoted.

You're welcome.

like I just did.

[Cow Poke]

And, if




you want



to reply



to a post



in separate



parts, you can




add in




extra quote=.... and /quote (in square brackets)






like I just did.

As long as that hyperlink is there, you can go back and see if, in fact, the poster mangled the quote, and go from there.

[Sparko]

and if for some reason you need to get a link to a particular post to add into your own post, go to the post in question, look at the upper right of the post at the post number, right click on the number and select, "copy hyperlink" or "copy link location" (it varies from browser to browser)

Then you can paste that link into your post like this:
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/sh...l=1#post732676

[MaxVel]

What happens if you post, copy the hyperlink to that post, then edit and paste the hyperlink to the post in the post itself?

I'm too scared to actually try it, it might cause the Universe to implode....

[Sparko]

What happens if you post, copy the hyperlink to that post, then edit and paste the hyperlink to the post in the post itself?

I'm too scared to actually try it, it might cause the Universe to implode....

Yes.

[Cow Poke]

What happens if you post, copy the hyperlink to that post, then edit and paste the hyperlink to the post in the post itself?

I'm too scared to actually try it, it might cause the Universe to implode....

Is that like when you take the golden screw out of somebody's bellybutton, their butt falls off?

[Ronson]

As long as that hyperlink is there, you can go back and see if, in fact, the poster mangled the quote, and go from there.

I was reprimanded once for not including the hyperlink in each section of a fragmented quoted post. Like this ...

As long as that hyperlink is there,

And then

you can go back and see if, in fact, the poster mangled the quote, and go from there.

I just assume the person I am responding to knows everything being quoted is from the single hyperlink. My bad, I guess.

[Cow Poke]

I was reprimanded once for not including the hyperlink in each section of a fragmented quoted post. Like this ...



And then



I just assume the person I am responding to knows everything being quoted is from the single hyperlink. My bad, I guess.

Some people are gonna gripe no matter what you do.

I'll often insist that my accuser provide the ACTUAL QUOTE where I said what they claim I said, and they rarely will provide it, because they know they've twisted my words, and the ACTUAL QUOTE -- IN CONTEXT -- will reveal their chicanery.

Sometimes, they'll provide the actual quote (after several insistences (is that a word?)) and the actual quote is nowhere near what they claimed, but they still insist ... "SEE THERE!!!!"

[Cerebrum123]

Is that like when you take the golden screw out of somebody's bellybutton, their butt falls off?

[JonathanL]

What I want to know is what happens when you make a post quote itself...

What I want to know is what happens when you make a post quote itself...

What I want to know is what happens when you make a post quote itself...

What I want to know is what happens when you make a post quote itself...

What I want to know is what happens when you make a post quote itself...

What I want to know is what happens when you make a post quote itself...

What I want to know is what happens when you make a post quote itself...

What I want to know is what happens when you make a post quote itself...

[Cow Poke]

What I want to know is what happens when you make a post quote itself...

Don't do that! Every time you do that, somebody on Kolob dies!

[JonathanL]

Don't do that! Every time you do that, somebody on Kolob dies!

[Sparko]

What I want to know is what happens when you make a post quote itself...

Post inception.