Quoting posts changed

saajan_12

Has the way we can quote posts changed intentionally? Now it gives a preview instead of the whole quoted post, but there's no way to highlight specific parts of a post by emboldening etc. This was useful to respond to specific parts of a post.

Can this be brought back?

MSE_Stephen

Hi @saajan_12

There's a thread here for feedback on the new Rich Editor

In the Rich Editor Help Guide, there's a post that suggest some workarounds to help you highlight the part of the post you want to highlight:

Quotes: Editing Quotes and Partial Quoting

flaneurs_lobster

Can I be the first to post that the new Rich Editor is pants?

Seriously, I get that in order to quote a previous post I can no longer just hit "Quote" then edit the copied text, the text must be copied from the original then inserted as a quote. Not seeing how to include the author of the quoted text.

So I can copy and quote MSE_Stephen's post from the post above

Hi @saajan_12

There's a thread here for feedback on the new Rich Editor

but there's no attribution, which the old "Quote" button would include by default.

Grumpy_chap

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6652370/quoting-posts-changed

I wholly agree, the new system is absoluteley appalling.

It is also very difficult to add a link to other threads where the same / similar topic has arisen with creating excessive thread bloating, but here goes with two threads from earlier this morning.

I don't really want to bloat this thread but it is the necessary evil to demonstrate the inadequacies:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6651784/font-changed

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6652367/039-rich-039-editor-feedback

But we can now add a far wider range of emojis.

😆👨‍🎓🏋️‍♂️💪🦄🏏↩️

saajan_12

To selectively quote a post, you will need to manually copy the text into your reply.

You can create a quote area by selecting ¶, then clicking ❝.

You can split the quote by positioning your cursor where you want the break, then changing the ❝ back to ¶.
This will split the quote into separate sections.

Tip: You can create the quote section before pasting in the text, or highlight the text afterwards to convert it into a quote.

Tip: To quickly turn text into a quote, use the Markdown shortcut: type a > followed by a space, then your text.

That's ^ the result of using the suggested method to selectively quote from the guide post. That is not actually quoting, but just formatting text as a quote. A core part of quoting is stating who it came from, and note @MSE_Stephen isn't mentioned at all in my "quote".

There really should be a button to click either after highlighting a section of a post to quote or whereby the text is editable.

Ergates

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81856084#Comment_81856084

It's absolutely dreadful - probably the worst quoting function I've ever seen on any forum ever.

Who on earth decided to implement this? And who signed off on the change?