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Quotes??

  • 04-09-2014 3:27pm
    #1
    mrty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭


    Probably a stupid question but how do i quote a single line from a post?


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  • #2
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    mrty wrote: »
    Probably a stupid question but how do i quote a single line from a post?

    There is a button called "quote".... not very obvious :pac:


  • #3
    mrty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭mrty


    Yeah but that just quotes the entire post. Im talking about a single line from a post?


  • #4
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    mrty wrote: »
    line ?
    Delete everything you don't want.


  • #5
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    mrty wrote: »
    Yeah but that just quotes the entire post. Im talking about a single line from a post?
    Just hit the quote button, then delete the bits that you don't want to quote.


  • #6
    Uriel.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,062 ✭✭✭Uriel.


    jester77 wrote: »
    There is a button called "quote".... not very obvious :pac:

    haha you gave a stupid answer to a stupid question.

    Just can't work out whether the question or the answer was more stupidererer :P


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  • #7
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    "Probably a stupid question but how do i quote a single line from a post?"

    - mrty


  • #8
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    I love the Backwards Man.
    But remember it's bad form to edit someone's post in your quote.


  • #9
    mrty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭mrty


    AW rite tried that before and it wasn't coming up framed it was just coming up as part of my post, if you get my meaning. Thanks anyway folks.


  • #10
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    mrty wrote: »
    it was just coming up as part of my post, if you get my meaning.
    :cool:


  • #11
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    mrty wrote: »
    AW rite tried that before and it wasn't coming up framed it was just coming up as part of my post, if you get my meaning. Thanks anyway folks.
    Just make sure not to delete any part of the quote tags.


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  • #12
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Just make sure not to delete any part of the quote tags./QUOTE]

    Why?


  • #13
    Knasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Knasher


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    But remember it's bad form to edit someone's post in your quote.

    I refuse to quote somebody else's spelling mistakes verbatim ....


  • #14
    solomafioso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭solomafioso


    mrty wrote: »
    AH is a wretched hive of scum and villainy

    HEY! That's not very nice. Although, kudos for the Star Wars quote.


  • #15
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,077 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    But remember it's bad form to edit someone's post in your quote.
    The general idea is to quote only the bits to which you're replying, with all necessary context. Don't change anything in the bits you're quoting, but it isn't "editing" to leave out whole paragraphs in the quoted post that have no bearing on your post.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #16
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Lads I love ye all

    Aw thats nice :)


  • #17
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Chucken wrote: »
    Aw thats nice :)

    Nice it may be, but they are mere words parroted by every single transient who comes into these parts.

    Now, if you tracked them down and looked for some sexy-times, what would you get? Arrested, that's what :mad:

    It's the lies I can't stand!


  • #18
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    mrty wrote: »
    Probably a stupid question but how do i quote a single line from a post?
    Ask on 4chan. Those guys know everything


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