Request For Creating User Quotes from Menu Header

@ChessieFan72 posted:

Can we please get an option on the header to create a quote (" ") so users may create quotes. Also, a feature to respond to multiple posts would be nice.

Thank you.

Like this or do you have something else in mind?

I think I figured out how to create the block quotes, but this process is pretty inefficient, especially when replying to a large post. I'll go back and edit my OP.

Chessiefan72:

Tell us about the kangaroo in your photo !!!

Thanks in advance !!!

@ChessieFan72 posted:

Can we please get an option on the menu header for a user created quote box (" " for example.) The current system is pretty inefficient, especially when wanting to reply to a longer post. It's frustrating to have to select a menu, find your sub-menu, select it, find your target, select it and fight the floating menu when 1 click in the menu header would suffice.

If you want to quote someone in a quote box, just click on "Reply with Quote." DONE.

I have no idea what you are talking about here with all this other menu and sub-menu stuff.

Additionally, a feature to respond to multiple posts at the same time would be nice.

You already have this feature!

1. CLICK ONE: Click on "Reply with Quote" for the first poster you want to reply to.
2. Write your reply.
3. CLICK TWO: Click on "Reply with Quote" for the next poster you want to reply to.
4. Write your reply.
5. Rinse and repeat, like this:
   

@CBQ_Bill posted:

Chessiefan72:

Tell us about the kangaroo in your photo !!!

Reply here...

@ChessieFan72 posted:

I think I figured out how to create the block quotes, but this process is pretty inefficient, especially when replying to a large post. I'll go back and edit my OP.

Reply here...

Instead of trying to write a post in source code, learn about all the built-in tools and features you have available to you that already do what you want to do.

@MartyE posted:

Like this or do you have something else in mind?

You can use the quote function repeatedly.

@CBQ_Bill posted:

Chessiefan72:

Tell us about the kangaroo in your photo !!!

Thanks in advance !!!

Yes about that Kangaroo...

@ChessieFan72 posted:

I think I figured out how to create the block quotes, but this process is pretty inefficient, especially when replying to a large post. I'll go back and edit my OP.

I guess I don't find it that bad but I've been using it a while.  Maybe I'm used to it.

@Rich Melvin posted:

Instead of trying to write a post in source code, learn about all the built-in tools and features you have available to you that already do what you want to do.

Your reply to my question is the perfect example of the inefficiency of the current system that I am suggesting to look at. Since your reply to my post was located inside a quote, no matter how many times I click Reply with Quote, I am unable to quote you directly. The above quote box is all the text that is carried over into the quote. In order to respond to your specific points, instead of clicking on a quick link from here:

I now need to hunt through here:

...in order to create a quote to directly address your reply, and then repeat the steps to end the quote.

Instead of having to scroll repeatedly up and down the webpage to quote a single post, I can quote the whole post and break it down.

I have no idea what you are talking about here with all this other menu and sub-menu stuff.

You already have this feature!

1. CLICK ONE: Click on "Reply with Quote" for the first poster you want to reply to.

2. Write your reply.

3. CLICK TWO: Click on "Reply with Quote" for the next poster you want to reply to.

4. Write your reply.

5. Rinse and repeat, like this:

That feature is nice if all of the posts are on the same page. If you want to reply to posts on page 1 and page 3, it can't be done. When moving to the next page for a post you want to reply to, the quotes from the previous page are left out. Instead of being efficient and collecting quotes into one post, other posts have to be created which bloats the thread.

If you quote something and you can't get outside the quote box, there's a simple solution.  I've created that situation by simply hitting backspace at the end of the post, now I'm trapped in Rich's quote.

@Rich Melvin posted:

Instead of trying to write a post in source code, learn about all the built-in tools and features you have available to you that already do what you want to do.

When that happens, just go to the tool line and click the <> icon.

You'll see this.

Start typing at the end of the <blockquote> tag and then hit the OK button, problem solved.

@ChessieFan72 posted:

I think I figured out how to create the block quotes, but this process is pretty inefficient, especially when replying to a large post. I'll go back and edit my OP.

Test 1. Reply with quote, then start typing a reply and hit Return.

@CBQ_Bill posted:

Chessiefan72:

Tell us about the kangaroo in your photo !!!

Thanks in advance !!!

Test 2. Then select Reply with quotes for another post you want to comment on. You can now edit both replies.

I did this by quoting, then copying the text to a word processor, adding the Comment lines, and pasting it back here. Now I can edit the text. It’s convoluted, but works. It’s so much nicer commenting on each point one at a time than commenting to all points at the same time. It’s also much easier to follow long posts. You could also color the comments, I just chose underlining.

@ChessieFan72 posted:

Your reply to my question is the perfect example of the inefficiency of the current system that I am suggesting to look at. Since your reply to my post was located inside a quote, no matter how many times I click Reply with Quote, I am unable to quote you directly...

That is BY DESIGN.

The last major Crowdstack update to this software platform changed the Reply with Quote feature so it would not quote everything in a quoted post. Crowdstack was getting inundated with requests to change that behavior (including requests from us) because posts would end up containing 6 - 8 - 10 levels of "quotes" within the post. A post like that became a total mess and impossible to read. That feature will not be coming back, I can assure you of that!

Understand that I do not have the ability to make any of the changes you suggest. This forum is a hosted solution, meaning that the hosting provider (Crowdstack) makes this software platform available to us for our forums. However, only they can make changes to the underlying code that runs this forum.