How to Quote Posts - Tutorial

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Hi All.

In an effort to keep threads organized, I believe it would greatly benefit people if they knew quote others. If I’m answer someone’s post, it’s much more organized if I have a quote of what they said, and other people will know what I’m talking about.

So here’s how you quote posts.

First copy the desired post.
Next, got to the reply box and paste the copied post.
At the beginning of the post you just pasted, type:

[QUOTE<em>]

At the end of the of the post you pasted, type:
[/QUOTE</em>]

Remove the stars, I added them here so you could see the quote text.

[QUOTE<em>]
Quoted message
[/QUOTE</em>]

Remove the stars and it looks like:

Hope this helps:)

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Testing

OK, typing more text because message was too short.

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Thank you! That does help.

I have to say that I can’t believe it’s so hard to do that. I’m really surprised that TPTB can’t make it simpler. For every other board I’ve been on, it’s been at most a 2-step process.

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Yeah, a lot of forums just have a quote button by each post; hopefully College Confidential implements this soon.

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Me too…Testing!

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I guess what’s in the quote doesn’t count.

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I guess it does work

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In reply to the recommendations that we implement an easier way to quote, please see this discussion from a few years back explaining why we don’t:

<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/community-forum-issues/854064-can-we-get-quote-button.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/community-forum-issues/854064-can-we-get-quote-button.html&lt;/a&gt;

Thanks!

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hi i am interested in being a musical theatre major. My current GPA is 3.2 what would i have to do to bring it up? Im going to be a junior but i really need good grades because i want to get into a drama senior program at a boarding school for my senior year. i have a hard time test taking.

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Time for a tutorial on how to start a new thread!

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And if you want to include the name of the person who posted the words you’re quoting, just add it to the beginning of the string so instead of

[QUOTE<em>]
Quoted message
[/QUOTE</em>]
<br>
it becomes,

[QUOTE=nameofposter]
Quoted message
[/QUOTE*]

example

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I’m testing this quote thing.

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testing, hope it works

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Hmmm hope this works… looks iffy…

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Can we have a “feels accomplished” button… :slight_smile:

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[Quote]
Can we have a “feels accomplished” button…

[Quote/]

Only if this works. I have never known how to do it

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Great that didnt work

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Does doing it in Quick Reply make it not work?

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<h2>

[Quote/]
The / has to be before the ‘Quote’ not afterwards</h2>

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Lets hope it works!